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Restore Article 370, resolve Kashmir for everlasting peace in sub-continent: Mehbooba to GoI

August 21, 2021 Editor

‘Taliban forced US forces to flee, but world watching their behavior; I urge Taliban no to commit any act that goes against Afghan people’ Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said that if New Delhi is really interested in ensuring peace in J&K and the sub-continent, it must restore article 370 and resolve Kashmir through dialogue. Addressing a gathering at the southern district of Kulgam, Mehbooba said for everlasting peace in Kashmir, the Government of India must restore the special status which they snatched illegally on August 5,…

How can J&K leaders justify their presence in the meeting if they could not convince the leaders to talk about 370: Sajad Gani Lone

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Editor

With the opposition parties’ joint statement skipping mention of Article 370, Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Saturday said how can J &K leaders justify their presence in the meeting if they could not convince the leaders to talk about 370. In a series of tweets, news agency Lone asked why leaders from J&K have become part and parcel of the “don’t talk about 370” discourse. “No mention of Article 370 in opposition parties meet. In wonderment how can J and K leaders justify their presence in the meeting…

Only two people from outside J&K have managed to purchase properties in the UT since 370 abrogation: MHA

August 11, 2021 Editor

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the Lok Sabha that there are only two people who have purchased properties in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370, in which the former state’s special status was removed, thus making way for people from other states to buy land. The MHA has said in a written reply in Parliament that there are only two people who have purchased properties in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 2.5 years since the Centre’s action. As per the information provided by…

J&K under ‘Direct Assault’ from New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi

August 10, 2021 Editor

Statehood in full should be restored forthwith; Elections be held in a free and fair manner; My fight against PM Modi’s divisive policies to continue, Congress believes in love, honour, not hatred; will visit Jammu, Ladakh soon Stating that J&K was “under the direct assault from New Delhi”, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said and the Government of India should restore full statehood to J&K and conduct the elections in a free and fair manner. Rahul, who arrived in Kashmir on a two-day sojourn, also…

Rahul Gandhi, 2 Years after he was made to Go Back, Returns to J&K

August 10, 2021 Editor

Two years after he was turned back from the airport, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to arrive in Srinagar today on a two-day visit. It will mark the first visit of Mr. Gandhi to Jammu and Kashmir after it was stripped of its special status and statehood in 2019. Rahul Gandhi had led an opposition delegation to Kashmir in 2019, days after the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was removed by presidential order, and the state was divided into two Union Territories,…

Past two years saw people silenced, ripped off jobs: Gupkar Alliance

August 5, 2021 Editor

Tarigami says BJP’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ slogan ‘is a joke now’ The Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of five Jammu and Kashmir parties, including the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday said the past two years, after ending J&K’s special status in 2019, saw “people being divided into smaller units, silenced, ripped off their jobs and rights over the natural resources”. In a statement issued on the eve of the second anniversary of the reading down of Article 370, Gupkar alliance spokesman…

Article 370 abrogation incremented trust deficit, alienation among people of J&K: Altaf Bukhari

August 5, 2021 Editor

He further said that “by now it must have been explicit to everyone in New Delhi that Article 370 was not an impediment in the way of development of Jammu and Kashmir”. “Unfortunately, we have not witnessed any major development taking place in J&K since August 5, 2019, as was projected by the advocates of abrogation of Article 370. Rather, ways of cultural imperialism have been facilitated by the bureaucratic regimes who seem hell-bent to convert our heritage sites into commercial entities like Mubarak Mandi in Jammu,” he added. Bukhari…

Two years since abrogation of Article 370, Gupkar alliance dubs Naya Kashmir a ‘Joke’

August 4, 2021 Editor

2 Years since abrogation of Article 370, Gupkar alliance dubs Naya Kashmir a 'Joke'

Hardening its stance vis à vis the Centre ahead of the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, the Gupkar alliance dubbed ‘Naya Kashmir’ as a joke. Hardening its stance vis à vis the Centre ahead of the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration described BJP’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ slogan as a “joke”. In a statement issued by PAGD spokesperson MY Tarigami on Wednesday, it was reiterated that the Union government had perpetrated an “unprecedented assault” on the Constitution thereby “damaging” Jammu…

Ex J&K Cop caught with militants ‘Let Off’, While Kashmiri’s are guilty until proven innocent: Mehbooba Mufti

August 4, 2021 Editor

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday, 2 August, claimed that Former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh was “let off the hook” despite being caught with militants, while “Kashmiris are considered guilty until proven innocent”. Mufti’s remarks on Twitter came following a photo of his dismissal order from May last year going viral on social media. She wrote, “Innocent Kashmiris arrested under anti-terror laws rot in jails for years. For them the trial becomes punishment. But GOI [Government of India] does not want an…

J&K will be granted statehood after normalcy is restored: MHA

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Editor

Violence Down, still no Timeline from the centre on Statehood for J&K The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said full statehood will be reinstated in Jammu and Kashmir at an “appropriate time” after normalcy is restored. In a written response to Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi in Rajya Sabha, MoS Home Nityanand Rai said statehood to Jammu and Kashmir would be granted at an appropriate time after normalcy is restored. The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its statehood on August 5, 2019, after the removal…