At least 10 persons including five militants were killed during the gunfight with government forces while equal numbers of civilian were killed in the subsequent clashes with the forces in South Kashmir’s shopian district on Sunday. The day long clashes at the encounter site and the surroundings areas of Shopian left 50 injured, of […]
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik has asked people to stage a dharna (sit-in) outside the civil secretariat till carnage is not stopped in Kashmir. The statement has come after ten people including five militants and five civilians were killed by government forces in Banigam […]
Expressing her deep anguish and grief over the killing death of five civilians in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, cheif minister Mehbooba Mufti has appealed the national leadership to show some sympathy and empathy towards as required by the present day situation in Kashmir. She asked the national leadership to display the statesmanship to get […]
Tens of thousands of people converged in old city and marched with the body of slain lashkar-e-Toiba militant, Fayaz Ahmad Hamal, to offer funeral prayers. After the encounter ended with the killing of three militants, the police identified one of the militant as Fayaz Hamal of Dukan Sangin, Khanqah. “Only one militant could be identified,” […]
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for complete shutdown on Sunday to protest what it described as “brutal” civilian killing in Kashmir. Strongly condemning the killing of young Aadil Ahmad by a police vehicle which mercilessly mowed him down near Noorbagh in Qamarwari JRL said that unaccountability for their crimes has made the forces […]
The Kashmir University is witnessing protests after an Assistant professor, Doctor Muhammad Raafi Bhat has gone missing since Friday afternoon. Raafi, a contractual lecturer, was working in the sociology department of the Kashmir University from past two years. On Saturday morning, students and the family members approached the proctor of the university and sought university’s […]
Director General of Police (DGP) Dr S P Vaid Friday said that police department has not the manpower available required for providing security to all ex-panchs, sarpanchs and protected persons numbering around forty thousand across the state. Talking to a local news gathering agency Kashmir News Service (KNS), Vaid said it is not humanly possible […]
Is the dog population in Srinagar really decreasing? The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) says “yes” and backs it with the numerical data. In a meeting convened by the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah on Friday, to address the issues pertaining to stray dog menace in Srinagar city, the chief sanitation officer […]
Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that joint resistance leadership (JRL) was looking at measures to deal with repressive situation prevailing in Kashmir. “JRL has recently met and deliberated and is looking at measures to deal with the repressive situation,” Mirwaiz said while addressing the Friday congregational gathering at the historic Jamia […]
JRL or Joint Resistance Leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have condmened the killing of three youth from old town Baramulla. In a statement, the JRL stated that time and again people are being killed in mysterious circumstances and no one knows who have orchestrated the killings. “While the state […]
