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Don’t just blame the Hurriyat; India’s intelligence agencies too helped in funding Separatists

May 17, 2017 Editor

A sensational sting by a television channel has proved conclusively in public that Hurriyat leaders organise disturbances in Kashmir, and receive hundreds of crores from Pakistan for this. Senior separatist leader Naeem Khan admitted that they burnt 35 schools, as well as some hospitals, panchayat buildings, and police stations. Khan is the provincial president of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, the organisation that Syed Ali Shah Geelani founded and heads. What should astound us is not just the fact that this happens but the fact that the government has allowed this sort of…

How Pakistan funds Kashmiri separatists to burn the Valley; Caught on Camera

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Editor

India Today has come up with clinching evidence of Pakistan’s state and non-state actors, including Hafiz Saeed, choreographing anarchy through their agents in the Kashmir Valley. Several top Kashmiri separatists are caught on camera confessing to receiving funds from across the border. Some of them also admitted they raised money domestically, pledging to repeat the deadly events of 2016 if financed again. The stunning probe that rips apart the devious designs of anti-India forces in Kashmir includes Hurriyat’s Provincial President (Geelani Faction) Naeem Khan, Tehreek-E-Hurriyat’s leader Gazi Javed Baba, and…

Engage in direct dialogue: United States

May 16, 2017 Editor

The US on Monday urged India and Pakistan to engage in direct dialogue to reduce tension as they faced-off at the International Court of Justice over the death penalty given to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav. “We believe India and Pakistan stand to benefit from practical cooperation,” a State Department spokesperson told PTI. When asked about the US’ stand on the case of Jadhav, a former Indian Navy officer who is facing the death penalty in Pakistan, the official said, “We encourage India and Pakistan to engage in direct dialogue aimed…

BJP-PDP alliance on the rocks as security establishment pitches for Governor’s rule

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 Editor

Two years after the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Peoples Democratic Party formed an alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, the allies are locked in a war of words, each blaming the other for rising militancy, mob violence and low voter turnout in the recent parliamentary bypolls. According to a report in the Indian Express, a senior security official said that the alliance between the PDP and BJP is one of the causes of Kashmiri resentment and if there was Governor’s rule, it would remove this factor from the equation.Now, the security…

Cracks within PDP & BJP coalition over peace talks

May 15, 2017 Editor

Cracks have developed in the PDP-BJP coalition over the issue of engaging separatist groups and Pakistan in a dialogue to restore peace in the Kashmir valley. Instead of evolving consensus on the sensitive issue both the coalition partners are blatantly indulging into a war of words to address their respective constituencies. After PDP vice-president and one of the founders of the party Sartaj Madni recently demanded engagement with separatists and Pakistan to restore peace in J&K, state BJP spokesperson Prof Varinder Gupta said those demanding involvement of the Hurriyat Conference…

Army is not against Kashmiris, our job is to separate, target terrorists: Gen Rawat

May 13, 2017 Editor

“We are not returning to classical CASO in Kashmir, because we know they cause hardship to the local people. These are area search operations. It is not even a cordon,” General Rawat said. Underlining the operating philosophy of the Army which believes that all Kashmiris are not involved in militancy, Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said “our job is to separate the terrorists from the Kashmiri people and target the terrorists”. Disabusing the notion that the Army is against all Kashmiris or treats all Kashmiris as militants, General Rawat…

Student Protests continues across Kashmir, scores injured

May 12, 2017 Editor

Students clashed with police and paramilitary forces in south Kashmir’s Anantnag, north Kashmir’s Baramulla and Kupwara district and central Kashmir’s Budgam district Thursday. Students of Government Higher Secondary School Magam clashed with the forces when they allegedly tried to enter the Government Degree College Magam and Government Higher Secondary School Magam premises. As protesting students pelted stones at the forces, they fired dozens of tear smoke canisters and charged students with batons to disperse them. Six students were detained during the clashes, locals said. In north Kashmir’s Sopore town, 13…

Opposition pushes plan for conclave on Kashmir, all-party meeting likely soon

May 11, 2017 Editor

Kashmir Conclave: Sharad Yadav meets Manmohan Shah; Omar Abdullah reaches out to CPI. A series of meetings between Opposition leaders to plan a conclave on Kashmir, as also to look for a political solution, has picked up pace in Delhi. On Wednesday, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the second time in recent days to discuss the proposed conclave. A date for the conclave is likely to be decided after a meeting between Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. In the half-hour meeting, Yadav is…

Governor N N Vohra steps in to defuse Student Unrest in Valley

May 11, 2017 Editor

Seeks to insulate educational system from recurring disruption Asks CM to take steps to ‘immunize’ students against law and order situations Conveys concerns to Chief Secy, DGP, Edu Minister, KU VC Governor N N Vohra has stepped in to defuse the escalating tensions in the wake of unrelenting protests by students across valley. On Wednesday, the Governor had extensive discussions with Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari at Raj Bhavan based on the inputs received from the various quarters to find a way out of the current unrest involving…