KARACHI: The Ramadan moon was not sighted in Pakistan on Sunday, hence first Roza will be on Tuesday (07th May), Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman announced after consulting all the four zonal offices. The meeting of Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee was held under the chairmanship of Mufti Muneeb at the Karachi Met Office today to decide the […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Sunday afternoon airlifted election staff from District Police Lines Shopian to their respective polling stations in sub-division Zainapora area even as clashes were reported from many parts of the southern district amid heightened security arrangements. Official sources said that election staff along with Electronic Voting Machines for 24 polling stations were airlifted […]
Anantnag: Since the party’s inception in July 1999, the South Kashmir region comprising four districts Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian has remained bastion of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), but the situation is completely different now. The PDP is fighting for its survival and relying on party President Mehbooba Mufti’s win in Anantnag parliamentary segment, […]
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Vice District President of Anantnag district was shot dead by suspected militants at Verinag area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday. Reports said that the gunmen believed to be militants fired upon the man identified as Gul Mohammad Mir (60) alias Attal son of Abdul Karim Mir […]
Srinagar: Calling for ceasefire in the holy month of Ramadhan, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said that the government of India has made hell out of the lives and dignity of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Mehbooba said Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps on telling that he […]
Pulwama: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday asserted that all the major gains in decreasing the foot print of “security forces, mellowing down of PSA (Public Safety Act) and efforts to do away with Armed forces special powers act (AFSPA) were put into an abyss by the former PDP-BJP led […]
Srinagar: Sri Lanka’s army chief has said that some of the people who carried out the April 21 suicide bombings in the island country had travelled to Kashmir and Kerala in India to possibly be part of “terrorism” training activities. The comments by Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayke is the first confirmation by a senior security […]
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 […]
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 […]
Srinagar: The last surviving militant of “Burhan group” has been killed among two militants in a Friday morning gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Lateef Ahmad Dar alias Tiger, son of Ghulam Ahmad Dar, a resident of Dogripora village was part of the popular Burhan Wani group and was a category A++ militant […]
