Train services resume across Kashmir after two day suspension
Srinagar: Train services resumed Friday across Kashmir after remaining suspended for two days as a precautionary measure. An official said that the trains shall chug normally today following a fresh advisory from police last night. He said train service was resumed this morning on Badgam-Srinagar-Anantnag-Qazigund in south Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region after remaining […]
Kartarpur corridor, Imran Khan’s googly to India: Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Srinagar: Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Kartarpur corridor was Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “googly at India”. Geo News reported that Qureshi minister made these remark at a ceremony in Islamabad to mark the first 100 days of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. Qureshi said that the approach of Pakistan is “people-centric”, […]
Promoting terror in India not in Pakistan’s favour: Imran Khan
Says he is ready for talks with PM Modi
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday said he was ready to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi while conceding that it was not in the interest of his country to allow terror activities from its territory. Khan’s remarks came a day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj categorically ruled out possibility of […]
LS, Assembly polls may be clubbed together: EC sources
New Delhi: The Election Commission, which has to hold fresh assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir before May 21 next, is likely to club it with the Lok Sabha elections due next year, highly-placed sources in the poll panel said Thursday. The state assembly was dissolved by Governor Satya Pal Malik on November 21 citing […]
Panchayat polls: Kashmir records 19, Jammu region 61 pc in fifth phase
Jammu: Kashmir recorded over 19 per cent polling while Jammu registered more than 61 per cent voting till noon in the fifth phase of the Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections Thursday, officials said. The polling began at 8 am and ended at 2 pm in 2,512 polling stations, including 1,743 stations in Jammu division and […]
Two Hizbul militants killed in Awantipora encounter
Srinagar: Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants, both close aides of outfit commander Riyaz Naikoo, were killed Thursday in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. “Based on a credible input about presence of militants at Sharshali in Awantipora area of Pulwama district, a cordon and search operation was launched swiftly […]
Sojourn with militancy for Adnan, Adil ends in Khrew
Pulwama: Adnan was pursuing engineering while Aadil, his associate used to teach computer science before the duo took up arms. Adnan Ahmad Lone according to his family was pursuing Btech at Model Institute Of Technology Jammu before joining militant ranks in 2015. A relative of Lone said in January 2015, they received a letter that […]
Kartarpur Corridor can undo freeze in India, Pak ties: Pakistani media
Islamabad: The move to build the Kartarpur Corridor has the potential to undo the “freeze” in ties between India and Pakistan and push the two sides to engage in a positive and purposeful manner, the Pakistani media commented on Thursday. The planned corridor will connect Sikh faith’s founder Guru Nanak Dev’s final resting place in […]
Move could be a ‘new beginning’ for India, Pak: Mehbooba
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said the Kartarpur corridor could be a “new beginning” of reconciliation between India and Pakistan and called for facilitation of bilateral trade and people to people contact to make borders “irrelevant”. The planned corridor will connect Sikh faith’s founder Guru Nanak Dev’s final resting […]
Treating J&K bank as PSU: Employees stage protests against SAC decision
Srinagar: Employees of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank staged a protest here Thursday demanding a rollback of the decision of Governor S P Malik-led state administrative council to treat the bank as a public sector undertaking. Scores of employees of the bank assembled at its corporate headquarters on M A Road and staged a demonstration, […]
