SRINAGAR — Several politicians and political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have condemned the police lathicharge on journalists during a Muharram procession in Srinagar. As the media personnel, mostly photo and video journalists, were discharging their professional duties, police swung into action and lathicharged them, the scribes said, as per news agency PTI. They said […]
KULGAM — Suspected militants on Tuesday shot dead a BJP worker in Brazloo area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official told that the BJP worker namely Javaid Ahmad Dar son of Abdullah Dar resident of Brazloo was shot dead outside his residence. “Javaid was the constituency in charge of BJP for Kulgam,” he said, […]
SRINAGAR — Two Kashmiri professors are still stranded in strife torn Kabul and the Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha said on Tuesday that he has taken up the issue of their safe return with the External Affairs Ministry. “Spoke to MoS Foreign Affairs, Shri V Muraleedharan Ji for immediate evacuation of professors from […]
KABUL — The Taliban has declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as thousands mobbed the city’s international airport in a desperate attempt to flee. Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed as […]
NEW DELHI — About 150 Afghan soldiers, who are undergoing training in India, are now staring at an uncertain future following the resurgence of Taliban in Afghanistan. These Afghan soldiers are attending specifically-tailored capsule courses at different military training establishments in India, Times of India reported today quoting its sources. The Indian government “will have […]
In response to the Taliban re-conquest of Afghanistan, Hamas on Monday congratulated the Afghan people for “defeating” the US. “We congratulate the Muslim Afghan people for the defeat of the American occupation on all Afghan lands, and we congratulate the Taliban movement and its brave leadership on this victory, which culminated its long struggle over […]
SRINAGAR — Scores of media persons were on Tuesday allegedly thrashed by the policemen when they were performing their processional duties at Jehangir Chowk in Srinagar. Waseem Andrabi, a photojournalist, working with Hindustan Times, told that the media men were covering Muharram procession at Jahangir Chowk today. However, he said that the policemen from Shergari […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Tuesday imposed restrictions in and around commercial hub Lal Chowk to foil the Muharram procession. Official sources told that in view of Muharram procession that was scheduled to be taken out from Abi Guzar today, restrictions were imposed in Maisuma, Abiguzar, Trc, Dalgate, Budshah bridge, Gowkadal and Kralkhud areas. Notably, Muharram […]
SRINAGAR — The Taliban takeover of Kabul has triggered fears of an Afghan spillover in the Valley, with a propaganda blitz on Jammu and Kashmir by India’s diplomatic mission in Mazar-i-Sharif seen as evidence of how the country is preparing to prevent a possible upheaval. Kashmir was on the lips of India’s consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif […]
UNITED NATIONS — United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on the world to work together Monday to “suppress the global terrorist threat in Afghanistan.” “The international community must unite to make sure that Afghanistan is never again used as a platform or safe haven for terrorist organizations,” Guterres told an emergency UN Security Council meeting […]