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‘They looked quite prepared for the attack’, Two more truckers who survived petrol bomb attack say cops appeared complicit

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 Editor

If one musters the courage to ask, the immolation bid on the Kashmiri truckers in Udhampur a few days ago contains all the answers to what can now only be called the ‘Kashmir conflict’ because we have burnt all the better words to describe it to a crisp. The attempt by the Hindu mob to extinguish their lives with fire is a monument to the ex post facto nature of all our lives. When this correspondent visited them yesterday morning and then once more in the late afternoon at the…

Plots underway against Muslim identity of Kashmir: Mirwaiz

October 13, 2015 Editor

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that conspiracies are being hatched to damage Muslim unity and weaken the Islamic identity of Jammu and Kashmir, which is a Muslim majority territory.Mirwaiz Umar Farooq addressing one-day conference on renowned Muslim saint, Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, in Srinagar, today, termed the personality of the saint as a role model for all Muslims. He said that under a well-planned conspiracy, anti-Islam forces at local and international levels were hell-bent on tarnishing the image of Islam. People from all…

Police wean 40 youth away from militancy in Kashmir

October 13, 2015 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir police have weaned away around 40 young men, mostly from south Kashmir, from joining the terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen by tracking their activities on social media, a senior Home Ministry official said. Security agencies in Kashmir are grappling with a growing number of youths joining the militant ranks and the authorities are nipping these attempts in the bud by identifying the probable recruits on the basis of their activities. A case in point is Pulwama district where 24 boys were dissuaded by the police in just…

Kashmiri writer too decides to return Sahitya Akademi award

October 13, 2015 Editor

Prominent Kashmiri writer and poet Ghulam Nabi Khayal today joined a growing club of writers and poets across India who are returning their awards to protest the “rising intolerance” in the country. Khayal, a 1975 Sahitya Akademi award winner for his Kashmiri book “Gashik Minaar” (Luminaries), has decided to return the award, including the cash prize, to protest the “growing intolerance and communal atmosphere, including the Dadri lynching incident, and the increasing attacks against minorities” in the country. “This is to protest what is happening across India. This is to…

Clashes in Kashmir over Udhampur truck attack

October 12, 2015 Editor

Clashes erupted in parts of Srinagar on Monday over an attack on a truck in Udhampur, as a shutdown called by the separatists affected life across the Kashmir Valley. Group of youths pelted stones at police and paramilitary forces in many areas of the old city Srinagar, forcing the security forces to baton-charge and lob tear gas shells to disperse the agitated youths. Protestors kept on re-grouping and clashes were on in the old city areas of Bohri Kadal, Saraf Kadal, Rajouri Kadal and adjoining areas in the afternoon. Security…

Strike in Kashmir Valley affects normal life

October 12, 2015 Editor

Normal life in Kashmir was disrupted today due to a strike call given by traders’ bodies, to protest the attack on a Valley-bound truck in Udhampur last week. Schools, shops and other business establishments remained closed as Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers’ Association and Kashmir Economic Alliance called for a strike. While public transport was off the roads, private vehicles including taxis were plying on the roads normally. The attendance in government offices was thin due to the non-availability of public transport facilities. The trade bodies had called for strike to…

Urs of Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA) observed, CM greets people

October 12, 2015 Editor

The 596th Urs of Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani (RA) was observed with great religious fervour and gaiety across Kashmir on Sunday. The largest gathering was held at the shrine of Sheikh-ul-Aalam at Chrar-i-Sharief in Budgam district where thousands of devotees paid obeisance to the great Kashmiri saint. Devotees not only from different parts of Kashmir thronged the shrine but also from Gujarat, Mumbai, Kolkata, Rajasthan also visited the shrine of the saint in Char-i-Sharief. Religious scholars and preachers while paying rich tributes to the saint appealed people to follow the…

Land for press club identified at Polo View

October 12, 2015 Editor

The state government has identified land at Polo View in the city here for the purpose of establishing a press club for media persons, according to official documents. The state government’s Information Department is working on a proposal to establish a press club for media persons and land measuring 5 kanals at Polo View has been identified for the purpose. The land belongs to the Housing and Urban Development Department. “The concept and design for the proposed Press Club have been prepared through INTACH. After finalisation of the DPR and…

Raped at 17, woman records statement in J&K court after 28 years

October 12, 2015 Editor

Twenty-eight years after she was allegedly gang-raped, a middle-aged woman has recorded her statement in a court in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. She was 17 when four men allegedly abducted her from home in Nadihal area of Bandipora district on June 3, 1987, according to the complaint. She was then taken and confined to a hotel in Srinagar where she was allegedly repeatedly raped by the accused for 12 days. “We got the victim to record her statement in the court of Principal District and Sessions Judge Bandipora…

Documenting The Horror That Was Kashmir

October 12, 2015 Editor

A report finds some officials of the Indian Army responsible for various massacres in J&K. However, the guilty are yet to be brought to justice. On 5 October 1996, at around 7.30 pm 20-30 gunmen of Ikhwanul Muslimoon “in civilian clothing and long military boots” led by their commander Abdur Rashid Parray alias Billa drove in a truck into Sadrekoot-Bala, a hamlet on the periphery of the village Hajin, it was the Valley’s counter-insurgency capital then, ruled by its dreaded supremo Kuka Parray. They knocked at the house of Ghulam…