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Dialogue only after stone-pelting ends in Kashmir: Amit Shah

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The Agenda of Alliance sealed by the BJP and the PDP before they formed the government in the state talks about holding dialogue with all internal stakeholders. BJP president Amit Shah has ruled out dialogue on the Kashmir issue until stone-pelting ends, but insisted that the government will talk to everyone once violence ends. Asked if the government will speak to the Hurriyat (separatists) too as was done by the previous NDA government, he told PTI, “Once violence ends and an atmosphere of dialogue is created, we will talk to…

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Clashes, Protests erupted in Srinagar, Sopore post Friday prayers

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Clashes broke out between protesters and security forces after Friday prayers in north Kashmir’s Sopore town and Old City in Srinagar. Clashes broke out between protesters and security forces after Friday prayers in north Kashmir’s Sopore town and Old City in Srinagar. Police said a group of protestors raised slogans against the government and indulged in stone-pelting at the deployed security forces in Sopore town after the congregational Friday prayers. Police used tear smoke to disperse the protesters who kept regrouping to engage the security forces in pitched clashes. Similar…

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Resistance leaders call protests today against Gogoi’s commendation

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The separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik on Thursday expressed strong resentment over awarding Major Gogoi, who had used a youth Farooq Ahmad Dar as a human shield in central Kashmir’s Budgam district last month, and called for peaceful protests after Friday prayers tomorrow against this inhuman act. In a joint statement, they said awarding of Major Gogoi vindicated their stand that India is following “fascist dogma and acting as a colonial state”. “Life and dignity of civilians is at stake,” they said. They…

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Social media ban defied by all, even the government

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Be it Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s office or former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the ruling party or the opposition parties, police officials or militants, students or protesters, everyone is defying the government’s ban on social media in Kashmir. The ban, which came into effect last month, has been defined daily with the aid of the virtual private network (VPN) technology that allows users to access banned social media sites and instant messaging application by setting up proxy Internet connections. The attempts to block the use of VPNs have failed even…

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GoI creating shadow IS to flex muscle in Kashmir: Aga Ruhullah

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‘Ideologies and people like Zakir Musa created after meeting Mosad’ Government of India (GoI) is creating a shadow Islamic State to flex its muscle in Kashmir, opposition National Conference (NC) leader Aga Ruhullah said Tuesday. Speaking at a programme ‘J&K – The Road Ahead’ organised by Centre for Peace and Progress (CPP, Ruhullah said, “New Delhi is trying to create a shadow Islamic State to create an excuse for flexing its muscle.” He said this was being done to create ideologies and people like the former Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Zakir…

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No let-up in Protests against Student’s Arrest

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Students of the University of Kashmir today held a protest demonstration demanding the release of varsity’s journalism student Tahir Hussain Mir, who has been detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Students assembled on the campus and started sloganeering against the detention of Mir, a resident of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. They demanded the intervention of Vice Chancellor of the varsity Dr Khursheed Andrabi for taking up the release of Tahir with the state government. Mir, 24, was arrested in September last year for allegedly “disrupting law and order and…

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Students clash with security forces, 4 held

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Four students were arrested today after hundreds of them clashed with security forces as a part of the continuing protests in educational institutions in the Kashmir valley. Dozens of students came out onto the roads in the Baba-Demb locality of Srinagar, chanting anti-India slogans and threw stones at security personnel. Students of Gandhi Memorial College and MPML Higher Secondary School in the Baba-Demb area blocked the vehicular traffic and resortedto sloganeering. The security forces deployed in the area resorted to lathicharge to disperse the students. However, after intense stone-throwing by…

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Shutdown, Restrictions affects life in Kashmir

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The authorities here today foiled the proposed Eidgah march of separatists to commemorate Moulvi Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone on their death anniversaries. Meanwhile, a shutdown called jointly by the separatists hit life across the Valley. In view of the separatists’ call to march to Eidgah, where the two leaders are buried, the authorities had imposed restrictions in the areas falling under the police stations of Khanyar, Nowhatta, MR Gunj, Rainawari and Safa Kadal in Srinagar. District Magistrate, Srinagar, Farooq Ahmad Lone said the restrictions were imposed as a…

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Kashmir a problem of three and a half districts: Amit Shah

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BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said the problem in Jammu and Kashmir was not widespread but centered around just “three and a half districts”, and the central government was formulating a “course of action” to resolve the situation. Shah also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “made more efforts to improve relations with Pakistan than any other government.” Addressing an Aaj Tak Editors roundtable on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s completion of three years in office, Shah said the BJP government was making every effort to bring peace to…

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Man shot dead in Pulwama, Militants offer gun salute

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Clashes in Anantnag for second day A 45-year-old man was found dead with multiple bullet wounds on his body on Friday in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. SP Pulwama, Muhammad Aslam, said body was found lying on the banks of RomshiNallah, on outskirts of Newa village in Pulwama district. The slain was identified as Muhammad Yousuf Lone son of Sanaullah Lone of Gadoora village of Pulwama. Sources, close to the family, told Kashmir Post that Lone left his house late Thursday evening after receiving a phone call and did not return…

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