This is Kashmir, not Palestine: Mehbooba on bi-weekly highway shutdown

This is Kashmir, not Palestine: Mehbooba on bi-weekly highway shutdown

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said that her party (PDP) won’t allow government to change Kashmir into open air prison as she tweeted minutes after her workers hit streets on Kashmir highway in Srinagar to protest the ban on movement on civilian traffic all along Srinagar-Jammu highway. […]

NC, PDP protest highway ban order in Anantnag, Srinagar

NC, PDP protest highway ban order in Anantnag, Srinagar

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday held separate protests in Srinagar and Anantnag against the ban on civilian traffic on highway from Baramulla to Udhampur.  NC Parliamentary Candidate Justice Hasnain Masoodi along with senior party leaders Peer Hussain and Abdul Majeed Larmi besides scores of workers took out a protest […]

Omar calls highway ban ‘mindless’ decision

Omar calls highway ban ‘mindless’ decision

Srinagar: National Conference vice president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah have slammed government for ban on highway which implemented for the first time has crippled normal activity across Jammu and Kashmir. “Driving to Uri I’m getting to see first hand the extent of disruption & inconvenience that is being caused to […]

Gun battle between militants-forces ensues in Tral

Gun battle between militants-forces ensues in Tral

Srinagar:  An encounter ensued between militants and government forces on Sunday during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Tral forest in south Kashmir district of Pulwama, official sources said on Sunday. Meanwhile, mobile internet service in the area has been suspended. Sources said troops of Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police, […]

NC for 33 pc women reservation in Assembly: Rana

NC for 33 pc women reservation in Assembly: Rana

Jammu: Recalling the path-breaking role of National Conference in socio-political empowerment of women in Jammu and Kashmir, Provincial President Devender Singh Rana on Saturday said if voted to power the party will strive for their 33 per cent reservation in the Legislative Assembly. He referred to the recent assertion of the NC President Dr Farooq […]

Kashmiri Muslim scholars denounce NIA’s continuous ‘harassment’ of Mirwaiz

Kashmiri Muslim scholars denounce NIA’s continuous ‘harassment’ of Mirwaiz

Srinagar: Kashmiri religious scholars from all Islamic schools of thought and imams, khateebs of Masajids across the valley have expressed serious anguish, concern and deep regret over the continuous “harassment” of Valley’s deeply respected Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir and Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) patron Mirwaiz Umar Farooq by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) through repeated notices being sent to […]

No civilian traffic on highway tomorrow due to movement of Force’s convoy: traffic department 

Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir Valley with rest of the world, shall be closed for civilian traffic tomorrow, traffic department said on Saturday. “Only SFs (security forces) convoy shall be allowed. No movement of any type of public vehicle shall be allowed on Jammu-Srinagar highway,” a traffic department official said. On […]