Category: Kashmir

Kashmir

Militants’ video ‘motivated’ Sopore boys to take up arms

Editor

A video clip of militants is believed to have “motivated” four teenagers from Sopore, who were detained in frontier district of Kupwara recently while attempting to cross the Line of Control (LoC) to take up arms. The four teenagers from Sopore have reportedly told the police that they decided to go to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) for arms training after watching a video of militants. The video was shown to them by a local resident, who works in a private company in Sopore. “We have picked the youth who showed them the…

Read More

‘RSS statement reflection of true of face of Hindu outfit’

Editor

Hurriyet leaders Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Mohammad Iqbal Mir and human rights defender Mohammad Ahsan Untoo have condemned the RSS statement asking the BJP government to deal with the pro-freedom leaders with iron hand. The leaders in their joint statement issued in Srinagar, today, termed the statement as reflection of the real face of the Hindu extremist organization. They also denounced the steps taken by present PDP-BJP regime in the territory and said that these steps had put a question mark on the democratic credentials of the regime.The leaders said that…

Read More

Geelani reveals India’s secret mission to create Sainik Colony in Kashmir

Editor

Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani Sahab revealed that the PDP and BJP have entered into a secret agreement over the issues like creation of Sanik Colony in Kashmir, permanent settlement of the west Pakistan refugees in the state and isolated colonies for the Kashmiri Pandits and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had assured the New Delhi for his full cooperation in this regard. While addressing a seminar titled “Indo-Pak Hostilities – Causes and Solution” at Hyderpora, the pro-freedom leader announced that this dangerous plan will be resisted tooth…

Read More

With Kashmiris until Kashmir’s freedom: Hafiz Saeed

Editor

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday said he is with the people of Kashmir until its freedom, adding that Pakistan talks about dialogue while Modi government is creating war hysteria. Talking to the Difa-e-Pakistan (defence of Pakistan) rally in Lahore, Saeed said Indian aggression along the Working Boundary and Line of Control (LoC) should be considered war. “If India wants war then we’ll fight this war in Indian cities,” he said, adding that he considers 1971 war a ‘conspiracy’ and not a war. He said the war was of…

Read More

Flood victims wait for rehabilitation

Editor

A year after floods devastated parts of Kashmir, the victims of the natural calamity feel that governments at the Centre and in the state have done “precious little” for rehabilitating them. “We are talking one year down the line and all we have got peanuts in the name of relief and rehabilitation,” 75-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Bhat told PTI. Bhat’s three-storey house in Jawahar Nagar area of the city collapsed in the flood that struck Kashmir and some parts of Jammu in the first week of September last year. He and…

Read More

As Kashmir readies to remember last September floods

Editor

HC questions government’s stand over the issue The J&K High Court Friday castigated the government for commemorating anniversary of the floods that struck Kashmir on 7th of September 2014, saying it (govt) was still undecided on granting the much-needed relief package to the people. The previous J&K government had sought a Rs 44000 crore relief package from Union of India in the aftermath of the destructive floods of September 2014. However, the Centre is still non-committal about providing the package for rehabilitation of the people affected and impacted by the…

Read More

Mehbooba concerned over youths’ joining militancy

Editor

People Democratic Party (PDP) President and Member Parliament (MP) Mehbooba Mufti today urged India and Pakistan to resume talks for restoring last peace in the region. Addressing party workers here today, Mehbooba expressed concern over loss of lives in border firing and the youths’ joining militant outfits in Kashmir valley. “It is a matter of concern that Kashmiri youth are opting for guns. Prime Minister should move a few steps forward and invite Nawaz Sharif for talks so that a long lasting peace is maintained in the two neighbouring nations”,…

Read More

Clashes in Srinagar after march foiled

Editor

Violent clashes erupted between stone-pelting youth and security forces after Friday prayers in old city areas of Srinagar as authorities prevented a march being taken out, police said. Soon after the congregational Friday prayers ended inside the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area, a group of youth came out on the streets displaying posters of Burhan Wani, commander of the separatist guerrilla outfit Hizbul Mujahedeen. As the youth tried to take out a protest march, a large posse of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police intercepted them triggering clashes,…

Read More

Hajjis pray for Palestine, Kashmir

Editor

As the people from all over the world are assembling here before proceeding towards Makkah Sharief for Umrah and Hajj, Kashmir along with Palestine figures prominently in the prayers of Muslims from different nationalities. Kashmiri Hajjis are easy to identify among the lot due to their colour, psyche and looks and one can easily make out that they are different from Pakistanis and Indians. There is a tradition at Masjid-e-Nabvi (SAW) that Muslims greet each other after every Namaz and pray for peace and prosperity for each other. Despite there…

Read More

BJP urges NIA to audit assets of separatist leaders in Valley

Editor

The BJP today urged the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to conduct an audit of the assets of the separatist leaders in the Kashmir valley. State BJP spokesperson Khalid Jehangir, in a statement, urged the premier agency to audit the ‘illegal assets’ accumulated by the Kashmiri separatist during the past 20 years. He said the offices of the NIA in J&K were as important as the police stations to fight Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in Kashmir in a better and professional way. He added that the NIA’s presence in the state would also…

Read More