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Restrictions imposed in and around Islamabad town

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Restrictions are continuously imposed in Islamabad town and around in south Kashmir which witnessed protests over the death of Udhampur petrol bomb attack victim Zahid Rasool Bhat. Police said the restrictions were imposed to maintain law and order. Many areas in Islamabad had yesterday observed a spontaneous shutdown to protest against the death of Zahid. Yesterday, clashes between protesting youth and government forces were reported from Batengoo, the native village of Zahid, as also Goriwan-Bijbehara and Islamabad town and Qaimoh and Khudwani in Kulgam district. Zahid was injured on October…

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Clashes in South Kashmir leave dozens injured

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Dozens of people have been injured in clashes with police and paramilitary forces in southern district of Jammu and Kashmir. Clashes broke out earlier today after paramilitary CRPF men allegedly thrashed pedestrians and motorists in Anantnag district. Later on, clashes spread to the entire district with angry youths pelting stones at police and CRPF. The forces responded with tear gas shelling and cane charge to disperse the protesters. However, the protesters didn’t relent and kept on regrouping. Several youths were also detained to contain the protests which were going on…

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Police shower tear and pepper gas shells on mourners in south Kashmir

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Police fired tear and pepper gas shells on mourners in Batengo village who were gathered to take part in funeral prayers of Zahid Rasool Bhat in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district on Sunday. Zahid died in a Delhi hospital today after battling for his life for ten days. He was injured after miscreants attacked the truck he was sleeping in on October 9 along with his two associates. Zahid and Showkat were injured in the incident. Showkat is undergoing treatment in New Delhi. As the mourners started assembling in Zahid’s native…

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Police beats, pressurises man to sign papers claiming his brother has rejoined militants

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A man in south Kashmir’s Kokernag area was allegedly tortured for three days in police custody in order to force him to sign papers claiming his brother has joined militant ranks. 28-year-old Bashir Ahmad Wani, a former Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, went missing after appearing for hearing in a case at the Anantnag district court on October 1. Since then, he has not returned home. Last week, a police party from police station Kokernag picked up Bashir’s younger brother, Mudasir Ahmad Wani, and shifted him to JIC Anantnag for “interrogation”. “I was…

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Authorities “threaten” families of Kashmiri truckers with PSA

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The families of two Kashmiri truckers who were attacked in Udhapmur last week, have alleged that district administration threatened them that they would be booked under PSA “if they highlight the issue”. “DC Anantnag and Tehsildar called us last evening that we will be booked under Public Safety Act, if we highlight the issue. We returned back Rs 40,000 compensation money to Chief Minister yesterday,” said Ghulam Rasool, father of Zahid Ahmad.

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Locals claim to grow tea in south Kashmir; officials unaware

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Residents of some areas in south Kashmir have claimed to have been producing tea for the past couple of years, while the concerned department remains unaware about it. As per the locals, Kashmiri tea is being cultivated in many places, particularly in Liver village of Anantnag district, and Kuchmullah and Nahir areas of district Pulwama. “I have been cultivating Kashmiri tea in my farm since 2013. Our family is consuming this tea for past two years, even though its colour is not pink like that of Nun Chai (salty tea),”…

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Will boycott products from other states but won’t stop eating beef: Anantnag traders’ body

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The traders of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sunday said that the threats by Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP) and other Hindu organizations to enforce economic blockade of Kashmir have exposed their evil intentions against Kashmiri Muslims. Chairman of All Traders Association of Anantnag (ATAA), Ghulam Nabi Shah said that threatening Kashmiris of economic blockade was foolishness on part of VHP. “We will boycott all the products supplied to us from Indian states but won’t stop eating beef on their diktat. Let them block the supplies to valley and that is not…

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BJP leader to organize beef party in South Kashmir

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Even as BJP, a coalition partner in Jammu & Kashmir government, has welcomed the high court ruling asking police to strictly implement beef ban in the state, a party leader from south Kashmir will organize a beef party to send across a message of religious tolerance. “I have decided to organize a party for both Hindus and Muslims. The Muslims will be served beef and the Hindus an exclusively vegetarian meal. They will share a table and it will send a message of brotherhood and religious tolerance,” Khurshid Ahmad Malik,…

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1985, When South Kashmir defied Jagmohan’s diktat on meat

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In 1985, the then Governor Jagmohan’s diktat banning sale of meat on Janamastami—a festival of Hindus—triggered a month-long agitation in South Kashmir. The diktat, according to local residents, led to cohesion among various Muslim organizations. During his rule in 1985, Jagmohan ordered ban on sale of all kinds of meat including mutton in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir on Janamashtami allegedly at the behest of right-wing extremist forces. However, the then Mirwaiz South Kashmir and Umat-I-Islami founder, late QaziNisar Ahmad along with Jamiat-I-AhlihadithKhateeb, GhulamRasoolQadri, defied the ban and slaughtered two sheep…

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Militant movement keeps security men on toes in CM’s hometown

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Heightened militant movement in Bijbehara, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s hometown, has been keeping security agencies on their toes for the last more than two months. At least four youths from Bijbehara town have joined militant ranks over the past few months, said Anantnag SSP Abdul Jabbar. They had been actively moving around the town over the past couple of months. The SSP said the movement of militants increased considerably at any place in case they had locals among their ranks. Militant presence was not new for the security grid…

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