Category: General News

General News

Salman Khan BROKE his promise, claims his adopted family in Kashmir!

Editor

The family reports that Salman hasn’t kept his word and that all their attempts to contact the actor have gone in vain Apart from his acting, stardom and crazy fan following, Salman Khan is also known for his philanthropic side. Not only does he actively involve himself with his Being Human NGO, he also makes sure to not let any opportunity to help other go by. Accordingly the actor made headlines for the same while he was shooting in Kashmir for his last release, Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The actor had adopted…

Read More

JK fails to keep NHAI on toes

Editor

The expansion of Srinagar-Jammu highway continues to be on at a snail’s pace. This is notwithstanding J&K government’s repeated assurances that it would keep the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and its concessionaires on the toes. A latest status report of the project has exposed the sluggish approach of the NHAI and its concessionaires—Ramky Infrastructure Private Limited and Navayuga Engineering Company—in widening the Srinagar-Qazigund and Qazigund-Banihal portions of the highway. According to the report, 66-km Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the mega project has recorded least physical progress among four portions…

Read More

Separatists—the silent winners in latest Indo-Pak slugfest

Editor

The slugfest over NSA level talks between India and Pakistan has brought into focus Kashmir’s separatist leadership after New Delhi asserted that any engagement between Islamabad and pro-freedom leaders was unacceptable to it. Last time, the separatists were at the centre-stage of Kashmir politics in the summer of 2010 when an anti-India uprising swept the Valley. That time an unnerved New Delhi rushed a parliamentary panel to Kashmir to reach out to the pro-freedom leadership, as a fire-fighting tactic. As war of words between New Delhi and Islamabad resulted in…

Read More

New Delhi’s biggest blunder in NSA talks fiasco was to make Kashmir separatists relevant again

Editor

The separatists of Kashmir — both the moderate and hawkish wings — had been marginalised and were fighting for space, when New Delhi threw them the lifeline of relevance. The cancellation of talks at the national security adviser (NSA) level between the two nations might well work for New Delhi in domestic politics, but in Kashmir, the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leadership has emerged as the unlikely winner of this fiasco. If Pakistan continues to maintain its stand that no talks will be possible if the Hurriyat leadership is not…

Read More

Counting the human cost of the conflict

Editor

Planned high-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled hours before they were due to start on Sunday, amid mutual recriminations. The talks over the disputed Kashmir region aimed to resolve a dispute which has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years. The ongoing series of skirmishes between the two countries has a devastating impact on the lives of those living in Kashmir.

Read More

Aborted NSA talks put fresh spotlight on Kashmir

Editor

The National Security Advisor-level talks between India and Pakistan—which have now been called off—put a fresh spotlight on Kashmir, after the recent issue of killings along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. While the US urged India and Pakistan to resolve all bilateral issues, including “disputed” Kashmir, in a direct manner and come up with a “common approach to resolve them”, the UN chief asked both nations to “address their differences through dialogue.” ‘KASHMIR A DISPUTE’ On Thursday, few days before the scheduled NSA talks in New Delhi—which…

Read More

Mufit Mohammad Sayeed upset over cancellation of NSA-level talks, Omar Abdullah blames him

Editor

A day after Pakistan called off NSA level talks, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Sunday expressed disappointment, stating he hopes both the nations will re-engage in meaningful dialogue. According to ANI, Mufti hopes that break in talks would be temporary and the thaw achieved between India and Pakistan at Ufa will not be allowed to go waste. He also believes that the two neighbours will re-engage soon in meaningful dialogue and steps taken by Indian government to improve impediments in normalisation of relations will be reciprocated by…

Read More

NC won’t allow ‘disintegration’ of J&K: Farooq Abdullah

Editor

National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah urged Jammu and Kashmir youths to fight “myopic politics” being played by vested interests to divide the state on regional and communal lines. “Youth has a very crucial role to fight myopic politics being played by vested interests to divide Jammu and Kashmir on regional and communal lines,” Abdullah said while addressing the party workers at party office yesterday. He said fragmenting society into bits and pieces is against the composite ethos of the state, which has all along been nurtured and sustained by…

Read More

J&K Govt determined to put state back on path of peace

Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said that it is determined to put the state back on the path of peace, progress and prosperity with accountability and transparency. “The Government is, with the spirited support of all its instruments, firm in its resolve to put the state back on the path of peace, progress and prosperity with accountability, transparency and good governance being the fundamental inputs for its functioning,” State Education Minister Naeem Akhtar quoted Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as saying at a cabinet meeting here. Akhtar, who…

Read More

J&K High Court quashes detention of Hurriyat hardliner Masarat Alam under PSA

Editor

Alam was arrested on April 17 two days after he shouted pro-Pakistan slogans and called for Kashmir’s merger with Pakistan during a Pro-Pakistan rally organised to welcome Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani in which his supporters also unfurled Pakistani flags. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led PDP-BJP government suffered a major setback on Friday when Jammu and Kashmir high court quashed the detention of Hurriyat hardliner Masarat Alam under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Alam was arrested on April 17 two days after he shouted pro-Pakistan slogans and called for Kashmir’s merger…

Read More