New Delhi: Three special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have written to India asking for details on steps taken to punish or provide justice to victims and their next of kin in 76 cases of torture and arbitrary killing in Jammu and Kashmir since 1990. The letter to the Indian government, […]
Srinagar: Today Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) released the first comprehensive report on torture in Jammu and Kashmir titled Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir. The report focuses on torture perpetrated in Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian […]
Srinagar: Asserting that it was ready to support Indo-Pak efforts to end hostility and seek peaceful solution of Kashmir issue, the hurriyat (M) said that the gun wielding local boys are a product of ongoing oppression. “I am feeling the pain whenever any youth is killed in government forces action or in encounters stating that […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that only meaningful engagement between India and Pakistan and the leadership of the state can resolve decades old Kashmir conflict and accord permanent peace to the region. Chairing an important meeting of party’s top leadership and important functionaries of Kashmir […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today said that he expected that the new government in Delhi will review its Kashmir policy. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar organised by the Hurriyat Conference to commemorate Hafta-e-Shahadat program, Mirwaiz said that the Kashmir issue will not be resolved through army might […]
Srinagar: At least four militants were killed in separate gun battles in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and north Kashmir’s Sopore area on Saturday. Three militants of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in an encounter with government forces at Panzgam, Awantipora. Police said one among the slain militants was involved in the killing of an army soldier Aurangzeb […]
Srinagar: Pakistan has said that it has locked all the offices of the twelve Kashmiri militant outfits who were operating from Pakistan Administered Kashmir. Reports said that the monetary support of these organizations has also been stopped. A report carried by the Independent Urdu said that this is for the first time in the 32 […]
Cabbage is a vegetable world famous for nutrients. It can be cooked separately or served with other vegetables as salad. It is a vegetable known for its flexibility, not rigidity. It has many layers. Cabbage, according to dietitians, can help improve digestion too. Even if it marries a holy warrior (a ‘Mujahid’) one digests […]
Srinagar: In gross violation of government rules and without the approval of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Commissioner, Chief Enforcement Officer, Akbar Sofi has engaged consolidated workers in the corporation. After the recruitment scam surfaced in the SMC, Sofi who engaged six consolidated workers from the backdoor has been attached by an official order. “Mohammad Akbar […]
Srinagar: Life came to a grinding halt as shops and business establishments were closed and traffic was off the roads in Kashmir valley on Friday due to a strike called by the Joint Resistance Leadership against ‘no let-up in killings during the holy month of Ramazan’. A police official said curfew-like restrictions remained imposed only in […]
