Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has issued second summon to Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani’s grandson, Anees-ul-Islam Shah for questioning. Anees is a son of incarcerated Hurriyat (G) leader Altaf Shah (Fantoosh). According to a summon, Anees has been asked to appear for questioning at NIA headquarters in New Delhi on May 06. […]
Srinagar: The administration on Friday gave charge of Principal Government Medical College (GMC) to Dr Kaiser Ahmad Kaul, days after Jammu and Kashmir High Court chided the government for not replacing Dr Samia Rashid despite quashing of a cabinet order by it. “Consequent upon the directions given by the Chief Secretary, J&K, Dr Kaiser Ahmad […]
Srinagar: Bodies of slain militants who were earlier killed in an encounter at Adkhara area of Imam Sahab in south Kashmir’s Shopian district were handed over to families for last rites. A Police officer told GNS that the bodies of the slain militants namely Lateef Dar alias Tiger of Dogripora Pulwama, Tariq Molvi of Moolu […]
Srinagar: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday hailed the contribution of the Jammu and Kashmir press fraternity. Tweeting that censoring media is aimed at censoring the truth, Mirwaiz said that the press in Kashmir, despite pulls and pressures, have let the truth prevail. He tweeted: […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Police on Friday said the youth missing from Kangan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was prevented from joining a militant outfit. A police spokesman said that Shafat Yousuf Malik of Thune Kangan was arrested along with arms and ammunition in Handwara. “On a credible input, Handwara police along with security forces […]
Srinagar: Police on Friday said that the militants slain in Shopian gunfight have been identified. A police official said that the slain have been identified as Lateef Ahmad Dar alias Tiger, a resident of Dogripora Pulwama; Tariq Ahmad, a resident of Chitragam Shopian and Shakir Ahmad, a resident of Chotigam Shopian. Dar was the last surviving […]
Srinagar: More than 20 people have suffered injuries during clashes with government forces near the gunfight site in south Kashmir’s Shopian village. Sources at District Hospital Shopian said that sixteen persons were brought to the health facility in injured conditions. “Among them three were referred to SMHS hospital in Srinagar,” he said. “All the injured had received […]
Washington: The United States has acknowledged that recently both civil and military leaders in Pakistan have taken steps to eliminate terrorism. At a Wednesday afternoon news briefing, a senior US official told reporters that Washington did not want to get involved in Pakistan’s internal politics but it did expect the country’s civil and military leaders […]
Shopian: Three militants have been killed in a gunfight that raged between government forces and militants in Imam Sahib area of Shopian on Friday. The firing has stopped while as searches are going on in the area, sources said. An official said that earlier two militants were killed in the encounter that started in Adkhara […]
Awantipora: It all started on that cold evening in October of 2010. That’s when Burhan Wani left his home at Shareefabad in South Kashmir, only to return draped in garlands after six years, and with an enormously proud but equally sad and wailing crowd following his coffin. The crowd was in a tizzy, not […]
