SRINAGAR – Separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has been laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard in his ancestral village in Tekipora Lolab on Thursday early morning. The authorities anticipating large participation had put strict restrictions on the entry of outside people even as disallowing the local residents from participating in the last rites of the […]
Author: KIMS Kashmir
India’s daily COVID-19 cases climb to new world record
NEW DELHI – India set a new global record Thursday after the country registered its biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases of over 412,000 in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry reported 412,262 new cases, taking the country’s total number of infections to over 21 million. With a record 3,980 new fatalities, the death […]
India’s tragic Covid-19 situation should raise alarm bells for all of us: UNICEF
UNITED NATIONS – The tragic” COVID-19 situation in India should raise the alarm bells for all of us and there will be reverberations across the region and the world in terms of virus-related deaths, virus mutations and supply delays unless the world steps up and helps the country now, the head of the UN children’s […]
Jailed Since July 2020, Hurriyat Leader Ashraf Sehrai Dies in Preventive Custody
SRINAGAR – Detained since July 2020, Kashmiri separatist leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Muhammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai passed away at a government hospital in Jammu on Wednesday, May 5. He was 78. Popular as ‘Sehrai’, the leader was shifted to the hospital after he complained of breathlessness in Udhampur jail, where he has been since July […]
Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah moves Delhi court seeking bail
NEW DELHI – A Delhi court on Wednesday asked the ED for reply on a bail plea field by Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah who claimed that there was no likelihood of the trial being completed any time soon in the money laundering case due to the current pandemic situation. Shah was arrested by the […]
Sehrai was genuine friend of Sikhs of Punjab: Dal Khalsa
AMRITSAR (PUNJAB) – Dal Khalsa on Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of Chairman of Theerek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai at Jammu hospital. Leaders of Dal Khalsa as per a statement issued to the news agency Kashmir News Observer expressed their condolences on Sehrai’s death. They said he was a man of principles and commitment. They […]
Brother of jailed Hurriyat leader urges GoI to shift Kashmiri prisoners back to Valley
‘Cases of Kashmiri prisoners be reviewed for release on parole in view of deteriorating pandemic situation in India’ Srinagar: Mohmmad Syed Shah, brother of Jailed Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad Shah urged the Government of India and the J&K Union Territory administration to shift Kashmiri prisoners lodged in various jails of India back to the Valley […]
Sehrai left unattended by the authorities till his condition worsened: APHC
SRINAGAR – All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) expressed deep grief and sorrow at the demise of veteran leader and TeH chief Mohammed Ashraf sehari who after developing serious breathing problems in Udhampur jail where he was lodged died at GMC Jammu. APHC in a statement while quoting family sources said that Sehrai sahab was suffering […]
Separatist Hurriyat leader Ashraf Sehrai, jailed since July under PSA, dies in Jammu hospital
SRINAGAR – Jailed senior separatist leader and chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai died at the government medical college in Jammu where he was transferred from prison on Tuesday. The 80-year old politician had been lodged in Kot Balwal Jail in Jammu since he was booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in July last […]
Govt Puts Off All Elective, Routine Surgeries in Govt, Private Hospitals In Kashmir
SRINAGAR – Authorities on Wednesday ordered deferment of all elective and routine surgeries in Government as well as Private Health Institutions in Kashmir division amid continuing upsurge in covid-19. “In view of prevailing situation of Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir Division which demands optimal utilization of available resources so that the existing infrastructure/ healthcare facilities are […]







