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Ex-CM Omar decries Modi Govt’s ‘step-motherly treatment to Kashmir’

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Former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday accused the BJP-led NDA Government of giving “step-motherly” treatment to Kashmir. He was referring to New Delhi’s non-commitment to sanction rehabilitation package for flood victims. Omar equally blamed ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for “letting the Centre go away” and not “taking firm commitment from BJP on the package before joining hands with it.” “This non-commitment on flood rehabilitation package is more of NDA and BJP’s step-motherly treatment (towards Kashmir),” Omar said, in an exclusive interview to us. He was responding to a…

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PDP has no role in govt affairs: Geelani

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The hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani today hosted a seminar on the Indo-Pak hostilities, its causes and solution. Speakers at the seminar expressed their viewpoint. Geelani also spoke at the seminar and alleged that the state was being ruled by the RSS. Syed Ali Geelani said Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was being used for implementing New Delhi’s policy and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had no role in the affairs of the government.

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80% roads restored, bridges to be fully repaired by 2017: Bukhari

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Jammu and Kashmir has been struggling to restore the damaged infrastructure since the floods last year left a trail of destruction. About 500 bridges and 6,000 km of roads were fully or partially damaged, snapping connectivity to thousands of villages. The large-scale devastation pushed the state’s development planning back to several decades. The Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department is racing against time to rebuild basic infrastructure lost to the nature’s fury. Talking to us on the first anniversary of the floods, Minister for Public Works Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari said: “Nearly…

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World peace linked to Kashmir settlement

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The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has said that peace in South Asia will remain a far-fetched dream unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved as per aspirations of the Kashmiri people. Syed Ali Gilani was addressing a seminar on “Factors behind Pak-India Tension”, held under his chair at Hyderpora in Srinagar, today. He urged the world community to intervene for settlement of the Kashmir dispute, saying that eruption of a war between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India this time could engulf peace of the entire world. The relations between the…

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RSS anti-Kashmir statement betrays its foolishness: JKLF

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The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has termed the RSS statement, advising the Indian government to suppress the ongoing movement in Jammu Kashmir with iron hand, as ridiculous. The JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “It seems that RSS has lost all its wisdom because of its hawkish mindset. Since 1947, India has applied its policy of oppression in Jammu Kashmir. Besides killing lakhs of people, its forces subjected tens of thousands to the worst kind of torture in jails, interrogation centres and camps.”From…

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RSS not reviewing Govt, shares inputs only: Dattatreya Hosabale

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Friday said it is not reviewing nor are giving any message to the government but only share inputs. After a three-day “coordination” meeting with the top brass of the government and the BJP, the RSS today said the Modi government was moving in the right direction with commitment and dedication and rejected criticism that it was acting like a “remote control”. The Sangh Parivar’s founthead said it was not reviewing the government’s performance but was only giving “inputs” to ministers, who are swayamsevaks, and it has…

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Mufti tells minister to work on ground

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Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Friday criticized his own Horticulture Minister for not doing enough and asked his ministry to work on ground rather than making speeches in the media. Inaugurating the state’s first-ever high-density apple orchard launched by a young techno-farmer Khurram Mir, Mufti was furious about the little work done by his minister in the horticulture field and asked him to pull his socks to work for the betterment of farmers. “We all must know ground realities are something very different than the claims we make on TV,…

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Omar has compulsive Twitter dependency syndrome: Naeem

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National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah has a compulsive Twitter dependency syndrome, the government spokesman Naeem Akhtar said Friday. Akhtar, the senior leader of ruling PDP and Minister for Education, said the former chief minister Omar Abdullah was desperate for being in news. “He wants to be in news somehow and makes such comments on Twitter for that purpose,” Akhtar said. He said Omar was missing power badly. “Otherwise, having been the Home Minister of the State in the past, he knows how SSG security drills go,” Akhtar said.

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‘You can’t have a Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark’

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Pakistan won’t accept any talks without Kashmir: Mushahid Hussain Chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Defence, Mushahid Hussain Syed says if India-Pakistan relation is the Shakespearean drama Hamlet, Kashmir is the Prince of Denmark.“You can’t have a Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark,” Syed told a 12-member journalist delegation from Kashmir. “Similarly, India and Pakistan can’t have peace and normalization of relations without resolving Kashmir.” Syed said there was a consensus in the country that Pakistan should engage with India by playing cricket, carrying commerce and indulging in cultural exchanges…

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‘Threat of nuclear war will continue till Kashmir solution’

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Senior Hurriyet leader and the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Chairman, Shabbir Ahmad Shah has said that if the Kashmir dispute is not resolved at the earliest, the threat of nuclear war will continue in the region. Shabbir Ahmad Shah in a statement issued in Srinagar lauded the stance of Pakistani leadership on Kashmir regarding talks with India that Kashmiris were the main stakeholders in the dialogue process. He maintained that the rising discourse on Kashmir dispute at global forums was moral victory for the people of Kashmir…

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