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Protests, Clashes erupted at many places across Valley

May 20, 2017 Editor

Protests and clashes between people and forces were reported from different parts of Kashmir Valley on Friday. The Joint Hurriyat Camp had called for peaceful protests after Friday prayers against the slapping of PSA on Aasiya Andrabi, her aide Sofi Fahmeeda and to press for release of political detainees. Aasiya and Fahmeeda were booked under the public safety act (PSA) on Monday and have been shifted to Amphalla Jail in Jammu. Dukhtaran-e-Milat in a statement termed the slapping of PSA on the duo and shifting them to Jammu Jail, a…

Students clash with forces in Kulgam, Pellet terror continues, scores injured

May 19, 2017 Editor

At least 14 students and a video-journalist were injured when government forces fired teargas shells and pellets on students protesting inside college premises in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday, even as locals clashed with forces in neighbouring Anantnag township after policemen allegedly roughed up a shopkeeper. Kulgam Witnesses said the students of Government Degree College Kulgam assembled in the college campus this afternoon and staged a pro-freedom protest. The forces guarding the nearby official residence of Superintendent of Police, Member Parliament and Court Complex fired teargas shells and pellets…

Mirwaiz Umar farooq defends Kashmiri stone-pelters, says govt forcing students to take up stones

May 19, 2017 Editor

Coming out strongly in defense of stone-pelters Kashmiri students, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday said that it was a way adopted by them to vent their anger against the system that is inimical and hostile towards them. Mirwaiz called for “blanket ban” on the freedom of expression and absence of student activism in the educational institutions was the primary factor for the ongoing students agitation in Kashmir. “There is a blanket ban on freedom of expression, even inside school premise, let alone in colleges and universities. Student activism…

South Kashmir residents accused security forces of ransacking property

May 18, 2017 Editor

The residents blamed the Army and the police for using force to disperse protesting villagers Residents of south Kashmir’s Heff and Shirmal villages on Wednesday accused the Army and police of ransacking their houses during a cordon-and-search operation on Wednesday. Even as the search was in progress, they protested and blamed the security forces for manhandling relatives of youths, who have joined militancy. The operation continued for several hours before it was called off. The residents blamed the Army and the police for using force to disperse protesting villagers. The…

Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of highway to be completed by Sep 2017

May 18, 2017 Editor

Minister for Public Works Naeem Akhtar today said that the prestigious Srinagar-Qazigund four-lane highway will be thrown open for traffic by the September of this year and it will usher in a new era of prosperity and development. The Minister was speaking to people while inspecting the work on the project. The Minister was accompanied by Chief Engineer R&B, Regional Director NHA1, representatives of Ramky and other officials. The Minister was informed that the project earlier expected to be completed in 2016 was delayed due to the deteriorating law and…

Stop wrong portrayal of Kashmir; Mehbooba to Media

May 18, 2017 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday again launched a scathing attack on New Delhi-based news channels for “presenting a scary picture” of the happenings in Kashmir and asked them to stop “wrong portrayal” of the situation. “What is shown on TV channels about Kashmir is not true. They show a scary picture but that’s not a reality. When tourists watch TV here, they are in a disbelief that is it the same Kashmir they are visiting,” Mehbooba said, addressing a gathering at a national-level symposium “Livestock Resources…

South Kashmir’s youth back Musa’s Islamic ‘Struggle’

May 17, 2017 Editor

The orchards across south Kashmir are lush green as it is summer season now and a pleasing fragrance makes the rural landscape here distinct from the region’s crowded and polluted urban neighbourhoods. Amidst this picturesque landscape of Shopian district, militants lurk in shadows, gathering in large numbers in the shade of orchards where they click pictures and shoot videos. Here they are protected by a shield of sympathetic civilians even as the ‘nationalist versus Islamist’ debate has divided the separatist movement into two camps. In the villages of Shopian, many…

Punjab police ‘Force Eviction’ of 3 youths from Kashmir

May 16, 2017 Editor

The police called the broker, who had helped them get accommodation, to remove them, said one of the youth Three Kashmiri youths have been “thrown out” of their rented accommodation in Punjab’s Zirakpur after police allegedly asked them to leave the place. The three were evicted hours after about a dozen policemen came to their house to verify their credentials on Sunday. “The policemen asked if we are Kashmiri and told us ‘yahan kuch karne aate ho aur wahan kuch aur karte ho’ and then asked us if we had…

Clashes at SP College trigger chaos in City Centre

May 16, 2017 Editor

Government seems to be running out of ideas to contain the anger among students in Kashmir as there is no let up in the protests. Students of SP College Srinagar on Monday staged protests against the arrest of students by police over past weeks. They were shouting anti-India and pro-freedom slogans inside the premises. As soon as the protests erupted, police reached the spot and tried to pacify the students. Witnesses said the students tried to march towards the MA Road, however the police resorted to tear gas shelling to…