The accountability court on Friday announced the verdict in the Avenfield corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), handing ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif 10 years as jail time for owning assets beyond income and 1 year for not cooperating with NAB, Dawn reported. The sentences will run concurrently so he will serve […]
Srinagar: Joint resistance leadership on Friday called for a complete shutdown in Kashmir valley and asked people to observe civil curfew on Saturday over the shifting of chief of Dukhtaran-e- Milat Asiya Andrabi and two of her aides to New Delhi by National Investigation Agency (NIA). In a statement issued here the Joint Resistance leadership […]
Srinagar: Friday prayers were not allowed at the historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar Friday as authorities had imposed strict restrictions in the area. Earlier in the day government forces had closed all the roads leading to the Masjid and nobody was allowed to reach the worship place. All the shops and business establishments in Nowhatta and […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Friday hurled a grenade at the residence of National Conference Leader in south Kashmir’s Tral area of Pulwama district reports said. They said that the grenade exploded outside the residence of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat without causing any damage Local sources said that the grenade exploded after hitting Bhat’s neighbor’s house, however […]
Srinagar: Backing ‘expert opinion’ that the footbridge in Rajbagh near Presentation Convent school in the summer capital, Srinagar, should be converted into a motorable bridge, former chief minister Omar Abdullah said this bridge should never have been downgraded to a pedestrian bridge. Terming the decision by the previous PDP-BJP government to downgrade the bridge as […]
Poonch: A body of 60-year-old woman was recovered from a nallah in Surankote area of Poonch district on Friday morning. Reports said that the woman namely Kaisra B (60) wife of late Imam Din of Kllar, Katla, Surankote found dead under mysterious conditions in a nallah at Dhunak area of the border district. A police […]
Srinagar: Floral tributes were paid on Friday to slain constable of Jammu and Kashmir police, who was kidnapped and later killed by militants in south Kashmir. Meanwhile, large number of people joined the “Nimaz Jinazah” of slain constable at his ancestral village. Constable Javid Ahmad Dar was kidnapped by four militants near his house at […]
Jammu: In view of heavy rush of pilgrims at Pahalgam and Baltal, the Amarnath Yatra remained suspended for third consecutive day from here on Friday. “No fresh batch of Amarnath pilgrims was left from Bhagwati Nagar based Yatri Niwas to twin base camps at Pahalgam and Baltal this morning,” an official here said. He said […]
Srinagar: Police on Friday arrested pro-freedom leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, two days ahead of second death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant commander Burhan Wani who was killed in an encounter with government forces in Anantnag district. However, officials said Malik was taken into preventive custody. A spokesman for the front said that a police […]
Jammu: Army and paramilitary forces, in a joint operation, claimed to have busted a militant hideout in a remote village of Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. “Paramilitary forces including police and Army on Thursday evening launched search operation in Mendhar and busted a terrorist hideout,” Defence spokesman said here on Friday. […]
