Srinagar: Eighteen-month-old Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir, has been discharged from hospital after surgery on her right eye but doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely, semi-offical news agency PTI reported Hiba was playing inside her house in Shopian when clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in […]
Srinagar: “Pakistan shall not fight any imposed war inside its territory again,” Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Monday in an oblique reference to the war on terrorism which he has repeatedly said in the past, is not our war, Express Tribune reported. Pakistan joined the US-led war on terrorism after the 9/11 terrorist attacks […]
Poonch: Two Junior Commissioned officers (JCOs) of army were injured in a land mine blast along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mankote sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday. The JCOs Dhareej Kumar and Rajendhar Singh of 5 Mahar Regiment were injured when they accidentally stepped over a mine while patrolling along LoC […]
Srinagar: Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir will now be accessible in all weather conditions, giving strategic advantage to the country, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) said Tuesday. “The cold desert region will now be accessible by a double-lane motorable road from Manali in Himachal Pradesh via Zanskar in Kargil district,” a spokesman of the BRO said. The […]
Srinagar: 24.4 percent polling was recorded in Bandipora district of northern Kashmir on Tuesday in the fourth phase of Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The polling for the fourth phase of Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir began Tuesday morning under tight security arrangements. The polling will be held at 2,618 polling stations across […]
Srinagar: The slain Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind militant Shakir Ahmad Dar was laid to rest at his ancestral village in south Kashmir’s Tral amid massive pro-freedom and pro-Pakistan sloganeering. Witnesses said that thousands of villagers from several villages of Tral and Rathsuna assembled for the funeral prayers of the slain. Meanwhile, reports said that government forces resorted to […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has said that had he listened to New Delhi Sajjad Lone would have been the chief minister of the state. He, however, said, that he did not do that because he did not want to be remembered as a “dishonest man” in the books of history. […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday issued the following statement after two militants and an army man were killed in southern Kashmir’s Kulgam in a gunfight. “Based on a credible input about the presence of militants in Redwani area of district Kulgam, a cordon and search operation was launched in the midnight jointly by […]
Srinagar: The militant slain in Tral gunfight with government forces has been identified as Shakir Hassan Dar, sources said on Tuesday Dar was the deputy chief of Zakir Musa-led Ansar Ghazwat ul Hind. Meanwhile, sources said that four residential houses were damaged in the firefight. Police in a statement said that a cordon and search operation […]
Srinagar: Bijbehara township in southern Kashmir’s Anantnag district Tuesday shut down spontaneously against the militant killings in Kulgam and Pulwama districts. Locals said that as the news about the killings of militants in two separate gunfights in Redwani Bala and Tral towns reached the township, the shopkeepers downed their shutters and the public transport went […]
