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 […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) Vice President, Omar Abdullah has said that he was shocked to hear that how officers who have supported early assembly elections were being browbeaten and threatened by using their performance appraisals against them to get them to toe the line. “No honest officer should fear these threats. We must put the […]
Srinagar:: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Sunday extolled her party workers as “real mujahideen.” Addressing a large gathering in Kupwara district, Mehbooba said even though a PDP worker “may not have a gun or stone in his hands, he is the real mujahid.” “Your contribution to the society […]
Srinagar: Bureaucrat turned politicians Shah Faesal said that his decision to join Indian Administrative Service (IAS) was wrong. “I realised that my decision to join Indian Administrative Service was wrong,” Faesal said on the launch ceremony of his political party J&K People’s Movement at Rajbagh Srinagar. “I thought development will bring peace but nothing will […]
Srinagar: Moments before bureaucrat turned politician Shah Faesal was about to announce launch of his party on Sunday, National Conference (NC) claimed a party ‘has been created/funded to divide’ Kashmiris. Senior NC leader, and advisor to party Vice-President Omar Abdullah, Tanvir Sadiq also said: “J&K’s political history is witness to the fact of many attempts […]
