NIA raids won’t deter us: JRL
The joint resistance leadership (JRL) Saturday while strongly condemning the raids by NIA said such raids won’t deter them from ‘pursuing the mission for freedom’. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, Saturday in a joint statement said that “Indian government is frustrated to the extent that they frame and arrest the […]
NIA raids houses of businessmen, resistance leaders across India
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday raided more than 25 locations in Kashmir, Haryana and the New Delhi over the case of alleged funding received by resistance groups from Pakistan to fuel the unrest in Kashmir. After registering an FIR earlier this week, various NIA teams, which had been camping in the Valley for few […]
2 army men killed, 4 injured in militant attack
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Need to book perpetrators of terrorism: Jitendra Singh
Union Minister of state in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Jitendra Singh, said on Saturday that the government’s intent of restoring normalcy in the Kashmir Valley and bringing to book the perpetrators of terrorism is “quite clear”, hours after the NIA carried out raids to track terror funding. In a pre-dawn swoop, the National Investigation […]
Pakistan Army claims to have killed 5 Indian soldiers
Pakistani Army on Saturday claimed to have killed at least five Indian soldiers and injured many others while aggressively responding to shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “Unprovoked CFV (ceasefire violation) at Tatta Pani (sector) along (the) LoC violently responded,” said Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor, chief of Pakistan […]
Will take people into confidence to resolve K-issue: Rajnath
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the central government wants a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem by taking its people into confidence, and is moving ahead in that direction. “We want a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem and we will do that by taking Kashmiri people into confidence,” Singh said while […]
Cross-Loc shelling continues
Pakistan on Saturday resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and civilian areas along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir that prompted the immediate reaction from the Indian troops who retaliated with the heavy firing. “Pakistani Army initiated indiscriminate firing of small arms, automatics, 82 mm and […]
Anantnag witnesses shutdown
A complete shutdown was observed in Anantnag district on Saturday as locals alleged that a tear gas shell landed into a residential house in Reshi Bazar in old town on Friday which engulfed four houses into flames. Scores of the youth assembled in main town Islamabad raising pro freedom slogans against the “highhandedness of […]
Unemployment rate in JK swells, qualified youth in lurch
Though dealing with unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir remained the war cry of every political party during the elections, educated youth of the state have been put in a tight spot by successive regimes as the unemployment rate continued to swell particularly from the past four years. After contacting the government employment exchanges, the […]
As India-Pak tension escalates, border residents urge construction of underground bunkers
As the armies of India and Pakistan traded heavy firing along the Line of Control (LoC), the residents of border of town Uri have urged upon the authorities to construct the underground bunkers. Residents told Kashmir Vision over phone that with the absence of the underground bunkers their lives were under constant threat. “As the […]