JKLF Chairman Yaseen Malik booked under PSA: Party Spokesman
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik has been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA), said a party spokesman on Thursday. “Malik sahab has been booked under the draconian law, Public Safety Act. He is being shifted to Kot Balwal jail in Jammu,” he said. Malik, who was detained on February 22, […]
Trump warns Kim over ‘rebuilding’ of NKorea rocket site
Washington, Mar 7 (AFP) President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’d be “very, very disappointed” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if reports that work is underway to rebuild a long-range rocket site are confirmed. Speaking to reporters, Trump said “it’s too early to see” if the information about work at the North Korean site is […]
Pak envoy to India Sohail Mahmood will be coming back
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan is sending its envoy back to India and is ready to engage with New Delhi to reduce tensions which are “de-escalating” due to diplomatic efforts by countries like the US, China and Russia. Qureshi said it is time to end all our conflicts and move towards peace. […]
RSS shakhas produce ill-informed bigots: Omar Abdullah
Srinagar: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah has said that RSS shakhas produce ill-informed bigots. Abdullah made the remark attacking former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta for his reported remarks that madrasas breed militants. “And RSS shakhas produce ill-informed bigots like Gupta here,” said Abdullah in a tweet. The BJP leader and former […]
Militant killed in overnight Handwara gunfight, searches on: Army
Srinagar: One militant has been killed in an encounter with government forces at Badra Payeen area of Kralgund, Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Thursday. An army officer said that after a brief gunfight last night, one militant was killed and his body was recovered along with a pistol and some grenades. […]
India-Pak faceoff: China admits creating ‘enabling atmosphere’ to defuse tensions
Beijing: China on Wednesday announced that Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou is in Islamabad to discuss the Indo-Pak tensions following the Pulwama terror attack, as it called for the creation of an “enabling atmosphere” for its close ally Pakistan to cooperate with “other parties”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Vice Foreign Minister Kong’s […]
US official says Pompeo helped cool down tempers
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played an “essential role” in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan last week, according to a top State Department official. Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Kashmir’s Pulwama district […]
UN chief spoke to officials, not PM’s: UN Officials
United Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres has not spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan, but discussed with officials from India and Pakistan the heightened tensions arising after the Pulwama terror attack, a top official has said. Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama terror […]
Jamaat ban: Mehbooba leads rally, stages protest in her ‘bastion’
Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday led a protest rally of her party in Anantnag district against the Centre’s ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly having close ties with militant outfits and demanded revocation of the decision. The former state chief minister led scores of her party activists at the rally in […]
JK polls: EC to hold fresh round of discussions with MHA team
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) would call Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and other top officials the Ministry of Home Affairs for consultation — second time in less than a month — to firm up its view on whether to hold Assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir simultaneously, officials said. […]
