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Ex-militant in NIA net, 19 Pandit families hope to get justice

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After a wait of 27 years, the families of those allegedly killed by former Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front militant Farooq Ahmed Dar, alias Bitta Karate, are hopeful of justice after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) started a probe into the shady financial transactions of separatists, including Dar. Dar is accused of killing 19 Pandits. In a video interview after his arrest in 1990, he had boasted of how he executed the murders. Among the victims was a social activist, Satish Tikku, 26, brutally gunned down on February 2, 1990, outside…

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Scores injured as forces go berserk in twin Shopian villages

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Government forces went berserk in two villages of south Kashmir’s Shopian district late Monday night, beating local residents and ransacking houses, shops and vehicles. Around 40 people were injured as forces rampaged through Turkwangam village, around 12 kilometres from the district headquarters. According to locals, personnel of Army’s 55 RR and SOG Shopian appeared in the village at around 11 pm. “They didn’t announce any cordon in the area and without any provocation barged into the residential houses and beat up the inmates severely. They didn’t even spare the women…

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BJP MLA spits venom against Kashmiri Muslims, video goes viral

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A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Raja Singh has asked Hindu pilgrims intending to visit Kashmir for the Amarnath Yatra this year not to buy anything from “traitor Kashmiri Muslims” to avenge the attacks on Indian soldiers in Kashmir. The video, which was first uploaded on his ‘Sri Ram Channel’ on YouTube, last month, has since been removed. However, the video has gone viral on Whatsapp and other file sharing websites. “To those who visit Amarnath and other holy sites in May, June and July, my request is that don’t…

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Students protest youth’s death in Shopian district

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Students held protests today over the recent killing of a college youth in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Dozens of college and higher secondary school students in Shopian came out on roads raising anti-India slogans and pelted stones on security forces, nearly 60 km south of Srinagar city. As soon as the morning assembly was over, students of Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Shopian, came out on roads. The protest spread over to the local college, where students hoisted a Pakistan flag on the main entrance. Students from both the educational…

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Street Vendors, Wrong Car Parking choke Hari Singh High Street

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We are on job to decongest the city roads: SMC Commissioner Illegal occupation of footpaths and roads by street vendors coupled with wrong car parking has choked the already congested Hari Singh High Street. Despite the clear instructions by the administration that the City Centre, Lal Chowk, must be completely decongested, one could see these vendors dotted along the footpaths and on roads at many places blocking both pedestrian as well as traffic movement to a large extent. The wrong car parking especially in the area from Amira Kadal Bridge…

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Tufail Matoo’s 7th Anniversary observed

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On the 7th death anniversary of teenager Tufail Matoo, who was killed by teargas shell fired by police, his family pledged to continue their fight for justice. 17-year old Tufail was killed on this day in 2010 when teargas shell hit him on head near Gani Memorial Stadium at Rajouri Kadal in downtown. On Tufail’s 7th death anniversary, people from different walks of life participated in prayers at his grave in Martyrs graveyard at Eidgah. “We observe this day with the hope that perpetrators of such crimes against humanity will…

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Catch them young (Stone Pelters), Show them India, Help them dream – Army’s new job

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The Army is zeroing in on young stone-pelters in Kashmir – not to lock them up but to take them around India and give wings to their dreams. The Army is zeroing in on young stone-pelters in Kashmir – not to lock them up but to take them around India and give wings to their dreams. A group of 20 boys from restive South Kashmir will be taken on an educational tour to showcase India and its development, a senior Army officer said. The idea struck Major General BS Raju,…

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Freed after 16 years, Baramulla man recounts how Delhi police ruined his career

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Happiness has visited the Wani family of Baramulla after 16 long years. Gulzar Ahmad Wani, who was acquitted of all charges in a case involving a blast on a train in 2001 by a court in Uttar Pradesh on May 20, reached his home in Tappar Bala, Baramulla district, on Tuesday. Hundreds of local residents thronged Wani’s place to congratulate the family. “I have seen him growing in front of my eyes. His 16 years of incarceration has devastated his family. He is a noble soul and one can never…

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Militants escape army cordon in Pahalgam village

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After militants escaped an army cordon in Wularhama village of Pahalgam on Thursday, the soldiers beat up local youth on their way back, residents of Wularhama told Kashmir Post. They said that protests and clashes broke out against the soldiers and troops fired teargas shells to quell the protests. Shopkeepers in the region downed their shutters in protest and traffic went off the roads during the day. The army laid a cordon around Hardkaethal locality of Wularhama early Thursday morning. Locals told KR that when the siege was being laid,…

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Restriction imposed in Srinagar following Hurriyat’s shutdown call

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The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to impose restrictions in seven areas of Srinagar following a shutdown call by Hurriyat leaders. Confirming the report, Srinagar Deputy Commissioner told ANI that the separatist leaders have called a bandh in Srinagar on Friday. Restrictions will be imposed in Khanyar, Maharaj Gunj, Safa Kadal, Rainawari, Kral Khud, Nowhatta Maisuma areas The separatists called for a strike and peaceful protests in Kashmir on Friday against the killing of a youth at the hands of government forces in Shopian district yesterday. They have also…

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