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Omar’s tweets ‘childish, based on little knowledge’: Hurriyat (G)

October 5, 2015 Editor

Terming the tweet of National Conference working president Omar Abdullah about Pakistan as ‘childish and based on little knowledge’, Hurriyat Conference (G) Saturday said not only Pakistani leadership but everyone in Kashmir knows the course of implementation of the UN resolutions and that is India and Pakistan have to pullout their respective troops simultaneously from Jammu and Kashmir. Hurriyat (G) spokesman addressing Omar Abdullah said that when India is totally refusing the UN resolutions then why should Pakistan demilitarize its controlled area? “The main and major hurdle in the implementation…

OIC reaffirms Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination

October 5, 2015 Editor

Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries have called for resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India. At their annual coordination meeting, the foreign ministers of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted the reports of various OIC Contact Groups, including the one on Jammu & Kashmir, which reaffirmed the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions. The meeting was chaired by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister of Kuwait and attended by Foreign Ministers of member states…

Srinagar-Qazigund four laning stretch may be delayed

October 5, 2015 Editor

Four-laning of the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, which has missed the deadline last year, may get further delayed with little progress on completion of 75 per cent of work by the end of September. Having missed the deadlines, work on this 66-km project, part of the prestigious Srinagar-Kanyakumari national highway corridor, was further delayed due to floods last year. With the intervention of the state government, which came under heavy criticism early this year due to the dilapidated condition of the road, the construction company was asked…

13 months later, flood victims angry over slow rehabilitation

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 Editor

Thirteen months after the devastating floods, thousands of victims are angry over the paltry compensation provided by the state’s coalition government, which had promised swift rehabilitation. The state government has so far provided no compensation to thousands of affected businesses, which suffered great losses during the last year’s devastating floods with Srinagar city’s main trading centres submerged for over a month. “The business community is not happy as they have not received anything,” Mushtaq Wani, president of the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries, told. Wani, who represents more than…

Pak fudging facts on UN resolutions: Omar

October 3, 2015 Editor

Jitendra slams Islamabad for ‘exporting’ terrorism to India Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today knocked down Pakistan’s foundation on UN resolutions on Kashmir by reminding it that it had to vacate the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) first. Omar, who is the grandson of first Prime Minister of J&K Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, blamed Pakistan for fudging facts regarding the UN resolutions on Kashmir. “Will someone please remind Pakistan that as per these UNSC resolutions, they were supposed to vacate ALL of J&K 1st,” he wrote on microblogging site Twitter. Omar said…

‘Core issue’ of Kashmir will always top bilateral talks: Pakistan

October 3, 2015 Editor

The “core issue” of Kashmir will always top the agenda of any bilateral talks, Pakistan has said while responding to India’s assertion that dialogue can begin only when Islamabad stops backing terrorism. Pakistan outlined its stance while exercising its “right of reply” to respond to foreign minister Sushma Swaraj’s address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, when she said that Islamabad should focus on the issue of terrorism instead of the four-point peace initiative proposed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “The core issue of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be…

Mufti has no mandate to issue fatwa on Kashmir’s future: Geelani

October 3, 2015 Editor

Terming the statement of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that ‘future of Kashmir lies with India’ as lie and deception, Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani Friday said it is totally contrary to the situation, events, ground realities and history of Kashmir and is very far from the truth. He said Jammu & Kashmir is the most militarized region of the world and these forces are controlling this land against the wishes of its people. Geelani who is continuously under house detention from last five months and was once again stopped…

Casual, daily wagers go on indefinite hunger strike

October 3, 2015 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir Casual and Daily Wagers’ Forum (JKCDF) today started an indefinite hunger strike against the failure of the government to address their long-pending demands here. The protesters, led by JKCDF Chairman Sajad Parray, started the strike at Pratap Park in city centre and said they would continue with their stir till their demands were not met. “We were forced to sit on an indefinite strike as the successive governments have only given us false assurances. When the PDP was in the opposition, their leaders would express solidarity…

JK HC notice to Govt on criminalisation of bovine slaughter

October 3, 2015 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday sought a response from the state government to a writ petition seeking striking down of the Constitutional provisions criminalising bovine slaughter in the state. The notice was issued by a Division Bench comprising Justices Mohammad Yaqoub Mir and Ali Mohammad Magray after hearing a writ petition filed by Afzal Qadri through his Advocate Syed Faisal Qadri seeking to strike down the relevant provisions of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) which criminalises the slaughter of bovines. Advocate General Jehangir Iqbal, appearing on behalf of the government,…