Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik to lead rallies on Jul 13: JRL
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Tuesday said that as part of the resistance program the online ‘Kashmir Awareness Campaign’ to highlight the Kashmir dispute and the grave human rights situation arising as a consequence of that, was started at midnight yesterday. The JRL including of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik […]
JKSM’s women wing demands probe
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Six family members arrested after attack on Yatris
Hours after the attack on Amarnath yatra pilgrims in South Kashmir, government forces raided a house and arrested six members of a family from Botengoo village of Anantnag district. A police official said that a couple of people have been detained for questioning. According to women members of the family, the raid was conducted when […]
CM oversees rescue ops throughout night at Anantnag
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti visited Srinagar Airport this morning to pay floral tributes to the tourists killed in a militant attack near Botengo, Anantnag last night. Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh also paid floral tributes to the slain tourists. The Chief Minister consoled the bereaved families expressing deep anguish over the tragic death […]
Various organizations condemn attack on pilgrims
Condemnations continue to pour in from different sections of the society over the attack on Amarnath yatri’s on Monday evening in which seven yatris, including five women, were killed and 19 others were injured. Such merciless act sans justification: JeI Social and religious organization, Jama’at-e-Islami, Tuesday, while asking international community to probe the barbaric act […]
Congress terms attack as shameful
State Congress President G. A. Mir strongly condemns “assassination of yatris’’ and described the attack as “dastardly and shameful.’’ Expressing deep sorrow and grief over the deadly attack on a convoy in which seven yatris were killed, Mir has strongly condemned the attack and described it as shocking, dastardly and highly shameful. Mir offered deepest […]
Attack on yatris act of cowardice :NC
Former Chief Minister and National Conference President, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Tuesday said the attack on Amarnath yatris was an act of cowardice and a dastardly act. “The attack on Amarnath Yatris was an attack on the soul and spirit of Kashmir and should be condemned unequivocally by every right thinking citizen of the state,’’ […]
PDP terms attack on yatra biggest ‘crime against humanity’
Ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday while condemning the gruesome attack on Amarnath pilgrims termed the incident “a biggest crime against the humanity.” Party’s Srinagar district president and upper house member Mohammad Khurshid Alam while addressing an emergency meeting with the party workers at the summer capital stated that the Kashmiri society does not […]
Social media outpours anger against attack on pilgrims
After the incident that took place in Batengoo area of Anantnag on Monday evening, where a bus carrying Amarnath Yatries was attacked by unidentified gunmen, people from different walks of life used social media platforms to let the word of condemnation out. With, Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh tweeting that “People of Kashmir have strongly […]
Priya Sethi visits injured Yatris at SKIMS Soura
Minister of State for Education, Technical Education, Tourism, Culture, Horticulture, Floriculture and Parks, Priya Sethi, today visited Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura to enquire about the condition of Yatris injured in Anantnag attack on Monday. The Minister was accompanied by MLC Surinder Ambardar. The Minister interacted with the injured pilgrims and their attendants […]