SRINAGAR — Days after Rubaiya Sayeed, sister of Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti identified Yasin Malik as her abductor in 1989, Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Tuesday said that Malik deserves a fair trial. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a party function here, Lone said that Malik deserves a fair […]
NEW DELHI — Voting for electing the new President of India began on Monday in Parliament. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the early MPs to cast his vote at the polling booth inside the Parliament premises. Talking to IANS Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said, “The NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu is going to win […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that her sister Rubaiya Sayeed did her duty as per the law to identify Yasin Malik in her abduction case. Talking to selected reporters, Mehbooba Mufti said that Rubaiya Sayeed was called as a witness to identify someone in case and she could not […]
SRINAGAR — Days after its “exit” from the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement, the political party founded by IAS officer Dr. Shah Faesal in 2019, merged with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aami Admi Party on Wednesday. Reports said that JKPM president Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan and other officer bearers of […]
SRINAGAR — Militancy in Kashmir will not end until the government wins the hearts of the people in the Valley and seeks a solution by talking to Pakistan, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said on Wednesday. Condemning the killing of a police officer by militants in the city on Tuesday, he said people will keep […]
SRINAGAR — Presidential opposition candidate, Yashwant Sinha on Saturday said that if he was elected, his priority will be to persuade the government to resolution Kashmir issue permanently. Addressing a press conference, Sinha demanded restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and also said that free and fair assembly elections must be conducted at an […]
SRINAGAR — If an opposition leader would have been photographed with arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Talib Hussain, he would have been slapped with FIRs and the BJP “trolls” would have been crying for his blood, the PDP said on Wednesday. In the party’s newsletter released here, the PDP — headed by Mehbooba Mufti — took […]
JAMMU — Amid infighting in the Jammu and Kashmir Congress, JKPCC president Gulam Ahmed Mir on Wednesday resigned from the post of state unit chief. In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Mir has said that as a disciplined soldier, any decision taken by her regarding his successor shall be acceptable to him. “As […]
NEW DELHI — Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and R C P Singh submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a day before the completion of their Rajya Sabha term, sources said. Earlier in the day, Modi had lauded both Naqvi and Singh during the cabinet meeting for their contribution to the […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti lauded security forces and two militants’ family members, who persuaded the ultras to lay down arms and surrender during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday. Mehbooba said such efforts should continue in order to give a second chance to the youngsters who have […]