Srinagar: Joint resistance leadership (JRL) comprising of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq have called for a shutdown on March 8 against arrest spree, tinkering with special status. “This spree of arrests, ban on Jamat-I-Islami and attempts to tinker with hereditary state subject law under the pretext of 35 A deserves our stiff protest […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Thursday sealed the Jama’at-e-Islami headquarters at Batamaloo in Srinagar. The headquarters were sealed almost a week after the Hoe Ministry of India declared Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir an ‘unlawfull organisation’. Reports said a large contingent of forces arrived at headquarters and entered JEI’s office and sealed it. Jama’at was banned by the […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Thursday condemned the slapping of Public Safety Act on the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairperson Muhammad Yasin Malik and shifting him to Kotbalwal jail Jammu. Mirwaiz termed it illegal and undemocratic and said that such tactics will not stop the people of Kashmir from demanding peaceful […]
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Thursday said incidents like the attack on two Kashmiri vendors in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh will do more harm to idea of India in Jammu and Kashmir than anything else. “Nothing will do more damage to the idea of India in J&K than videos like these. Keep thrashing Kashmiris like […]
Srinagar: A spontaneous shutdown is being observed in Maisuma area of Lal chowk against slapping of PSA on JKLF chairman Yasin Malik. Malik has been shifted to Kotbalwal Jail in Jammu to serve the detention. Shopkeepers downed their shutters soon after the news of Malik being shifted to Jammu Jail from Kothi Bagh police station spread. […]
Jammu: At least 18 people were injured Thursday in a grenade attack by suspected terrorists at the crowded general bus stand in the heart of the city, a senior police officer said. This is the third grenade attack by terrorists in the bus stand area of the city since May last year. The scene of the […]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbing him as the “poster boy of Pakistan” for hugging former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and inviting the country’s spy agency ISI to Pathankot after the IAF base was attacked. Gandhi’s remarks came after the prime minister on Tuesday called the […]
Srinagar: China’s Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou has reiterated China’s support to Pakistan for peace and stability in the region and also acknowledged Islamabad’s measures against terrorism. Xuanyou, who concluded his two-day official visit to the country on Wednesday, also underscored that Pakistan and China are close friends and partners, said a statement issued by […]
Srinagar: The US State Department has refused to take a position on New Delhi’s complaint against Pakistan for using F-16s in an air combat with India, saying that it does not offer public comments on bilateral agreements, a media report said. “We have seen those reports and we’re following that issue very closely. I can’t […]
New Delhi: With the Centre threatening a probe over stealing of “privileged documents” related to Rafale deal from the Defence Ministry, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded an investigation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for conducting parallel negotiations and delaying the delivery of the French jets to India. Addressing the media in New Delhi, Gandhi […]
