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General News

Raise voice against ‘Atrocities’ in Kashmir: Pakistan to UN, OIC

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Strongly condemning killing of seven civilians by government forces in Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that “only dialogue and not violence and killings will resolve the Kashmir conflict”. “We will raise issue of India’s human rights violations in Kashmir and demand UNSC to fulfill its J&K plebiscite commitment,” he said. Earlier, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi called on global human rights organisations to take notice of the “atrocities by Indian forces in Kashmir”, saying he was hopeful that the groups would…

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Kashmir, Chenab Valley shut against Pulwama killings

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Kashmir observed a complete shutdown on Sunday against the killing of seven civilians and three militants by government forces in southern Pulwama district a day earlier, even as the police imposed strict restrictions in Srinagar’s Downtown areas to thwart possible pro-freedom protests and also placed the resistance leadership under detention. The call for shutdown, given by the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, evoked a complete response across the Valley. Seven civilians including a teenager and an MBA graduate who had married…

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Post civilian killings GOI in spot over its Kashmir Policy

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Delhi is caught in a spot over the killing of seven civilians in violent clashes in the aftermath of an encounter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday morning that also raised a question about its policy on Kashmir. Three militants and a soldier were killed in the gunfight that spurred the violent protests with heavy stone-throwing at the soldiers from a very short distance. That created a situation that All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq described as the “continuing terror and trauma unleashed by the Indian security…

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Now ‘Sextortion’ is a crime, J&K first in the country to pass law banning ‘Sextortion’

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In a historic decision to curb sexual exploitation of women, the J&K Government on Friday enacted a law explicitly banning such abuse in government offices, thus becoming the first state in the country to have such a legislation. A new Section “E” has been added to the offences dealing with sexual harassment of women by men in authority in Section 354 of the Ranbir Penal Code (equivalent to the Indian Penal Code in J&K) that makes it a criminal offence and would entail three years of imprisonment for the offender.…

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Modi was not Vajpayee, Alliance with BJP was a suicide: Mehbooba Mufti

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday termed her party’s alliance with BJP a suicide with Modi not proving Vajpayee, SAARC not used for peace in Kashmir and Pakistan becoming an election issue in India. Taking part in “Kashmir-The Way Forward”, Mehbooba said, “There is total distrust and disconnect between people of Kashmir and Delhi (Central Government). They look inwards or outwards (outside the border) for support.” On Vajpayee’s support to late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed from 2002-05, Mehbooba said, “Between 2002-05,…

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People of J&K have full faith in BJP, will get majority in Assembly: Amit Shah

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah today lauded the people of Jammu and Kashmir for braving threats and boycott calls to turn up in large number to exercise their right to franchise in Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies elections in the State, which were conducted successfully under the Governor’s rule after a gap of several years. Shah said this in a meeting while reviewing affairs of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi today. BJP general secretary and party’s pointman on Jammu and Kashmir, Ram Madhav, Avinash Rai Khanna,…

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UN resolutions will be automatically applicable in J&K if Article 370 is abrogated: Experts

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Amid periodic controversy over the abrogation of article 370, which gives special status to conflict ravaged state of Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian union, legal luminaries and academicians say if Article 370 is abrogated, the United Nations (UN) resolutions will become automatically applicable on Jammu and Kashmir. “Abrogating article 370 will pave way to implement the UN resolutions in Kashmir, because this article connects Kashmir with Indian Union. If it is removed India will be having no constitutional right to claim Kashmir anymore,” said valley’s well known legal luminary.…

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Newly elected councilors press for the extension of 74th amendment to J&K

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As heads of all 79 urban local bodies have been appointed after the completion of the poll process, the elected representatives have stepped up efforts to extend the 74th Amendment of the Constitution to J&K to make these bodies functional in the ‘real sense’. “A meeting of the general house of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) will be held on December 15 to intensify the campaign to give adequate powers to the urban local bodies to make them purposeful,” JMC Deputy Mayor Purnima Sharma told Kashmir Post. She said a…

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Politicians, Bureaucrats live better lives than Emperor Jahangir: Satya Paul Malik

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Asserting that he does not have political agenda in J&K, Governor Satya Paul Malik Wednesday said powerful people like politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen live better live then Emperor Jahangir in Kashmir. “When I raised voice against corruption, I was blamed for defaming Kashmir in the name of corruption. I am not defaming Kashmir. It is those people who indulge in corruption who defamed Kashmir,” Governor Satya Pal Malik said addressing media. Malik interacted with the media at Jammu’s convention centre to highlight the achievement of his administration during his tenure…

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Mandir-Masjid politics rejected by people: NC, PDP, Congress

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The National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Congress Tuesday said the results in the assembly polls to five states have shown that political awakening is on the rise in the country as people have rejected the communal politics. “People rejected Mandir-Masjid politics, results show political awakening on rise in India,” the PDP quoted its president Mehbooba Mufti as saying on its Twitter handle. She was referring to the loss of BJP, which was an ally of the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir government till June this year, in the…

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