Srinagar: The “systematic violations of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir” that started from the abrogation of Article 370 on 4 August 2019, has “continued till date,” notes a report by the Forum For Human Rights in Jammu & Kashmir. The Forum consists of noted names in the sphere of academic and human rights, like […]
Srinagar, Feb 13: PDP president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday claimed that she was placed under house arrest ahead of her visit to the family of Athar Mushtaq, one of the three alleged militants killed in an encounter in Parimpora locality here in December last year. “Placed under house […]
Washington: National Press Club leaders on Monday urged the Government of India to release Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist who has been detained for two and a half years. Asif, a reporter for the Kashmir Narrator, was arrested in August 2018 on an unwarranted charge of harbouring militants, although all he had done was interview […]
Dr. Rizwan Rumi Regional Head JK, LINE OF CONTROL PEACE MISSION Srinagar: The indiscriminate firing and shellings by Pakistani and Indian security forces poses a huge threat to the lives and properties of civilians living along both sides of the border. It frequently causes “redundant injury or unnecessary suffering”. Many residents living in border areas […]
Srinagar: Er. Sahil Bashir Bhat, Party President J&K Youth Democratic Party while reacting to the Gupkar Declaration said, instead of answering for its follies in J&K by the political parties, who had been in power from time to time, either National Conference, Congress or PDP, a new spectacle being played to continue befooling or deadening […]
Srinagar, Feb 8: Two youth from the Pulwama district of South Kashmir posing with assault rifles have announced their recruitment into Militant outfit, Al Badr Mujahideen. The Photographs that have gone viral over social media claim that Suhail Ahmed Lone son of Nisar Ahmed Lone, who is a resident of Pulwama’s Khrew area in South […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked seven people, including the father and family members of the minor who was killed in a “gunfight” in Srinagar on 30 December 2020, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for “organizing illegal processions under criminal conspiracy”. A senior police official told The Kashmir Walla that an […]
Srinagar: After 550 days of restrictions, 4G has been restored in Jammu and Kashmir — now at par with rest of the country. Restrictions on internet were imposed on the eve of ‘complete integration’ of J&K with the union of India. First came a blanket ban on mobile telephony, then a failed attempt at the […]
Even as the world of social media, and our ministry of external affairs, jumps through hoops over tweets by two “outsiders”, the singer Rihanna and the climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the ongoing farmer protests in India, there are weightier issues that continue to confront this nation. There is, of course, the continuing protest by […]
The protests against farm laws that were hurriedly passed by the Indian government in September pose the most severe challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authority since he first came to power in 2014. Farmers fear the laws, which the supreme court has now paused, will pave the way for the entry of large corporations into the agricultural […]