Srinagar: Authorities disallowed a meeting between pro-freedom leaders on Saturday, a statement issued by joint resistance leadership here said. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik were scheduled to meet on Saturday at Hurriyat Hyderpora headquarters, the statement added. “Mirwaiz Sahab was not allowed to step out of his residence and Yaseen Sahab […]
Srinagar: As schools reopen in Kashmir after several months, a principal addressed teachers at his school with a message that sums up the five-month long agitation in the Valley. G N Aali, Principal at Green Valley Educational Institute, Ellahi Bagh, Srinagar on Saturday addressed the teaching staff of his institution the text of which was published […]
Srinagar: At least four militants were killed in retaliatory fire by Pakistan forces when they launched a “suicide attack” on a camp of the Mohmand Rifles Headquarters in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan on Saturday. Two soldiers of the Frontier Corps (FC) were killed in the attack in Ghalanai, DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa said […]
Srinagar: An Army convoy was attacked by militants in Langate, Hardwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday morning. A BSF personnel was injured in the attack, a police source said. The militants managed to escape and the search operation is ongoing, the source said.
Afshana Farooq Srinagar: Lack of parking space at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital, oldest hospital in the Valley, “threatens lives” and creates problems for patients. “Our ambulances get stuck at the main gate and there is no space to sneak in to reach the casualty. For critical patients, who are being ferried from […]
Full text of the letter “Facing The Foregone Conclusion: The second letter to India I was right after all. IRF and I were set up for a ban. Despite some saying that I played the ‘Muslim card’, it is now proven that the decision to ban IRF was taken months ago and it was […]
Asiya Tabasum Srinagar: Valley-based students of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar said that they have missed a number of job opportunities due to continuous communication blockade during the agitation while as Jammu-based NIT students were “kept well aware of the job opportunities”. “The interviews were held in Delhi and other parts of India in […]
Srinagar: A pro-freedom leader belonging to Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) suffered a heart attack after his house was raided by the police on Friday evening, a JKLF member said. “Javaid Ahmad Zargar’s house in Chanapora, Srinagar was raided by the police in the evening with the result he suffered a massive heart attack. His condition is […]
Srinagar: Burmese authorities are carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s western Arakan state, a senior UN official said, as the military continues to sweep the area for what it has labeled Islamic militants, media reports said on Friday. The BBC reports that John McKissick, a representative of […]