Srinagar: Governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday removed Tassaduq Jeelani as Director Tourism Kashmir. A communique said that Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan will hold the charge of Director Tourism Kashmir till further orders. The Div Com Kashmir has also been directed to hold an inquiry into incidents that occurred during FAM Tour from Oct 25 to […]
Srinagar: Massive clashes erupted in Pampore town of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district after the news about the killing of local militant in Budgam gunfight spread in the area. Witnesses said that people hit streets and pelted rocks on government forces. The clashes soon spread on the Srinagar-Islamabad highway forcing the closure of the road. They […]
Srinagar: Police on Thursday said that the bodies of two slain militants were retrieved from the site of encounter along with arms and ammunition at Zagoo in Budgam. One of the killed militants has been identified as Mukhtar Ahmad Khan son of Abdul Ahad Khan, a resident of Brass Arizal Budgam while the other militant […]
Srinagar: China on Thursday sought to defend the proposed bus service with Pakistan through PaK, saying its cooperation with Islamabad has nothing to do with the territorial dispute and will not change its principled stance on the Kashmir issue. India Wednesday said it has lodged strong protests with China and Pakistan over the proposed bus service […]
United Nations: The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says that, between 2006 and 2017, over 1,000 journalists were killed for reporting the news and bringing information to the public, an average of one death in every four days. On Wednesday, the experts, including David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of […]
Srinagar: The judicial remand of Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Asiya Andrabi, its secretary general Nahida Nasreen and its spokesperson Fahmeeda Sofi which ended today has been extended by 15 days. A spokesperson of DeM told The Kashmir Press that the remand of its leadership was supposed to end today, however, more the District & Session Judge, NIA special […]
Srinagar: Pakistan was tense on Thursday as countrywide protests against the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for committing blasphemy entered the second day despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s warning to defiant hardliners. Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row […]
Srinagar: A complete shutdown is being observed in Tral township of southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday for the second consecutive day against the militant killings on Tuesday. Reports said that all the shops and business establishments are shut while traffic is off the roads. Two Jaish e Muhammad militants were killed by government forces on Tuesday. The […]
Srinagar: The family of missing downtown boy Ahtisham Ahmad on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in Srinagar demanding whereabouts of their son. Ahtisham Bilal is a first-year student of Bachelors in Medical Imaging Technology at the Sharda University. The family refuted the reports that Ahstisham’s was in the Valley, saying that they have no information about it, […]
Srinagar: A teenage boy was killed in Leepa valley of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PAK) after Indian troops allegedly resorted to heavy shelling on Wednesday, a day after less intense firing by them in Neelum Valley, Dawn reported. Eighteen-year-old Haroon fell victim to the Indian shelling in Bijildhar village of Leepa Valley, located nearly 100 kilometres […]
