Mehbooba welcomes Pak PM’s offer on opening Hindu temples to Indian pilgrims
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Thursday welcomed Pakistan’s offer on opening several shrines, including Shardapeeth, to devotees from India, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi should consider the offer. “Great initiative of offering peace through these channels. PM @narendramodi ji should consider the offer by PakPM (Pakistan Prime Minister) @ImranKhanPTI for opening of SharadaPeeth in Kashmir, […]
Omar inspires youth, says NC
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar Thursday said only his party can bring J&K back on the path of development. While welcoming scores of prominent political functionaries from Zadibal into party fold he said, “It’s a welcome development and a clear cut message to those forces hell bent to […]
Gear up for 2019 assembly elections: JKPCC chief tells party cadres
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) on Thursday held an important meeting at Srinagar party office and reviewed the organizational affairs and activities in Kashmir division. The party as per a statement issued here also deliberated on the, forthcoming Parliamentary and assembly elections emphasizing the cadres to invigorate the party further to face […]
Health condition of Malik deteriorating, says JKLF
‘In last 300 days, Malik spend 120 days in incarceration’
Srinagar: Stating that the health condition of its chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik is deteriorating at a very fast speed, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leaders on Thursday said that in last 300 days (ten months), Malik has spent 120 days in incarceration as he was detained about 20 times by police. The JKLF leaders […]
Pak PM’s statement realistic, MEA India’s statement brazen lie: Geelani
Srinagar: Committing on the Pak Prime Minister’s Kashmir statement, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani on Thursday said that it is realistic as Kashmir is in fact a bone of contention between the two nuclear neighbours. Geelani as per a statement issued here said that “it is the undoubted historic fact that this sore […]
Bloodbath in Kashmir part of New Delhi’s policy of ‘aggression’: Hurriyat (M)
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) on Thursday said the bloodbath and rising graph of human rights violations in Kashmir is the part of the New Delhi’s policy of ‘aggression and military might’, being followed by the lakhs of forces deployed on ground. In a statement issued here, the amalgam spokesman paid tributes to two armed youth […]
DFP condoles with Shabir Shah’s associate
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) on Thursday condoled Sheikh Shabnum Ali over the demise of his father, Haji Sheikh Ali Mohammad of Ashajipora Anantnag. The JKDFP spokesperson in a statement issued here said Sheikh Shabnum Ali has been an associate of JKDFP incarcerated chief, Shabir Shah so the whole party condoles him […]
Will ask Pak for claiming Jhutt’s body: DGP
Srinagar: LeT militant Naveed Jhutt, who was killed in an encounter on Wednesday, was a Pakistani national, Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh said, adding that they will write to the Union Home ministry to inform Islamabad to take his body. Jhutt, who was wanted in connection with the assassination of journalist Shujaat Bukhari and […]
Militant escapes from encounter site
Srinagar: A suspected militant on Wednesday survived the fierce gunfight and emerged unharmed from the rubble of a house which was badly damaged by explosives in Chattergam area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Naveed Jatt was killed along with an associate who is yet to be identified in the gunfight that broke […]
SAC rescinds controversial Roshni scheme
JAMMU: In a major decision that is bound to raise a political storm in the state, the State Administrative Council (SAC) approved repeal of the Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, (commonly known as Roshni scheme). The decision was taken on Wednesday during a meeting of the SAC […]