Srinagar: Faiza Begum, who along with her three minor children allegedly accompanied her husband on his return to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 2012 under the rehabilitation scheme of former militants received five years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000, reports Indian Express. Sheraz Ahmed, also known as Shakir, married […]
Srinagar: China on Tuesday assured Pakistan of firm support to protect its territorial integrity and dignity during a high-level bilateral strategic dialogue in Beijing. At this meeting, Islamabad had raised the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in Kashmir and called on New Delhi to relook its policies in the state. Speaking at a joint press conference with […]
Jammu: Hours after a school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandit was killed under the police custody at Cargo component Srinagar, former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday raised finger at the functioning of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in the state. “Youth in Kashmir is being pushed towards alienation and […]
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Tuesday condemned the custodial killing of 28-year-old school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandith of Awantipora who according to the leadership was arrested by the SOG and NIA a few days ago and has been “brutally killed” in custody at SOG camp Cargo today. Paying tributes to Rizwan and while expressing […]
Srinagar: The family of slain youth allegedly killed in police custody has denied taking back his body from the Police Control Room in Srinagar or any other police establishment. The brother of slain Rizwan Asad, a Jama’at activist and a school principal, Mudassir Asad said that they have decided that the will not go to take […]
Srinagar: The family of Rizwan Assad Pandith, 28, has termed his death under police custody as a “cold blooded murder”. The family also said that Rizwan, a resident of south Kashmir’s Awantipora area, was a school principal, was running his own tutorial, and had just started his life afresh. “Rizwan was booked under false charges […]
Srinagar: National Conference Vice president and former chief minister, Omar has said that that exemplary punishment must be handed out to the killers of teacher Asad Munir Pandit. He also said that that he had hoped that the custodial killings were a thing of past. “I had hoped custodial deaths were a thing of our […]
Srinagar: At least eight youth have been detained by government forces from Drabgam village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district during nocturnal raids. Reports said that government forces raided the village and laid a cordon around a cluster of houses on Tuesday. The villagers were ordered to come out of their houses and then forces identified at […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Monday evening shot dead a 25-year-old labourer in Reshipora, Tral are of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that the militants fired upon Mohsin Ahmad Wani (25) son of Ghulam Ahmad Wani outside his home at Reshipora. Wani, suffered serious bullet wounds and died instantly on the way to […]
Srinagar: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said that the killings in Kashmir had fallen drastically during the United Progressive Alliance government from 2004 to 2014. He said that peace returned to the valley during the UPA regime and it happened by being strong with Pakistan. Gandhi said this while speaking exclusively to weekly magazine The Week. Answering […]
