Protests rock KU against custodial death of Jamat-e-Islami associate
Srinagar: Students of Kashmir University on Tuesday protested against the alleged custodial killing of a Jamat e Islami associated youth. According to eyewitnesses students marched through out the campus raising slogans against the police and NIA, accusing them of ‘killing a scholar in cold blood’. Slogans reverberated throughout the campus as students left their classes […]
ED attaches 13 assets in J-K in terror funding probe against Salahuddin
New Delhi,(PTI): The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday said it has attached 13 assets located in Jammu and Kashmir in a terror financing case against Pakistan-based terrorist Syed Salahuddin, the chief of the globally banned outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. The central probe agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach the properties […]
Family of slain JeI associate refuse to take body from Police, say ‘they took him from home, bring him here’
Srinagar: The family of slain Jamat-e-Islami associate, who was allegedly killed in police custody have denied taking back his body from the Police Control Room in Srinagar. They say ‘they arrested him from home, bring him to home’. “We will not take his body from PCR or any other police establishment,” Mudassir Asad, brother of slain […]
Rizwan’s custodial killing exposes helplessness and vulnerability of Kashmiris: Mirwaiz
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday said that the brutal killing of Jama’at activists and school principal Rizwan Ahmad once again exposes helplessness, vulnerability and insecurity to the lives of Kashmiri’s as impunity of the authorities keeps rising. Mirwaiz tweeted: “Distraught at the brutal custodial killing of young Rizwan Ahmed of Awantipora. […]
Custodial death of Jamat-e-Islami associate: Clashes erupt in Awantipora
Awantipora: Clashes broke out between the government forces and people in Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district following death of a Jamat e Islami associated local in police custody. According to eye witnesses people from nearby villages and localities marched towards the house of Rizwan Ahmad Pandith. Youth clashed with government forces deployed […]
Custodial death of Jamat-e-Islami affiliated youth: Spontaneous shutdown in city parts, announcements made from Jamia Masjid
Srinagar: Old city parts and Maisuma area of Lal Chowk observed spontaneous shutdown against the death of a school teacher from Awantipora in police custody on Tuesday. Witnesses told KNO that the shopkeepers downed their shutters in downtown areas as the announcement was made from historic Jamia Masjid asking people to observe shutdown against the […]
Flight safety is at risk: Jet Airways engineers’ union to DGCA
New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) As Jet Airways continues to ground aircraft and cancel significant number of flights, the airline’s aircraft maintenance engineers’ union wrote to the aviation regulator on Tuesday that three months of salary was overdue to them and flight safety “is at risk”. “It has been arduous for us to meet our financial […]
Pak SC to hear Nawaz’s appeal for bail on medical grounds
Islamabad, Mar 19 (PTI) Pakistan’s Supreme Court was Tuesday set to hear an appeal by country’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seeking bail on medical grounds. Sharif, 69, is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore since December 2018. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) […]
Youth dies in police custody, police requests for magisterial probe
Srinagar: A youth from Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was allegedly killed in police custody on Tuesday after he was held in connection with some militancy related case. Official sources told GNS that Rizwan Asad Pandit died in police custody at Srinagar during intervening night of March 18 and 19. A […]
Train crushes man to death in Qazigund
Qazigund: A 60-year-old man was mowed to death by a train on Tuesday in Qazigund area of south Kashmir. The deceased has been identified as Ghulam Nabi Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Churat Qazigund. Police has registered a case in this regard and initiated further investigation.(KNO)
