NEW DELHI — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said the government had not come out with any clear strategy to deal with the situation arising out of the Pahalgam terror attack, even as he asserted that the entire opposition was with the Centre on the issue. In his remarks at the Congress Working Committee […]
NEW DELHI — Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urging the government to convene a special session of both Houses of Parliament in wake of the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. In his letter, Gandhi […]
NEW DELHI — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to convene a special session of Parliament to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack and demonstrate a collective resolve. Several opposition MPs have made a similar demand to the government in the wake of the dastardly attack in which 26 […]
JAMMU — Congress general secretary Gulam Ahmed Mir on Monday strongly condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, denouncing it as inhumane and barbaric, and said the party supports the government’s initiatives aimed at safeguarding the country and restoring peace and normalcy. Mir, the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Jammu and Kashmir, highlighted the […]
JAMMU — Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir has questioned the Centre’s motive behind the abrogation of Article 370, stating that the decision was more of a political move rather than an attempt to eliminate militancy in the region of Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly during a special session to address […]
JAMMU — The Jammu region witnessed massive anti-Pakistan protests staged by mainstream political parties, socio-political and religious organisations on Wednesday, in the wake of a deadly terror attack in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam tourist resort that has killed at least 26 people, mostly tourists. The protesters burnt effigies of Pakistan and raised slogans demanding that a […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir units of the BJP and Congress strongly condemned the terror attack on unarmed tourists at a Pahalgam resort on Tuesday. Calling it a “tragic and unfortunate incident”, Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Sat Sharma said the attack was carried out at the behest of Pakistan, targeting innocent visitors who […]
JAMMU — The Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir unit is planning a one-and-a-half-month-long campaign from April 22 over statehood restoration demand, a party leader said on Sunday. Its state unit chief Tariq Hameed Karra chaired a meeting here to finalise the strategy of intensifying the statehood movement and “save the constitution” campaign in the Union Territory […]
JAMMU — A high-level Congress team led by national general secretary Syed Naseer Hussain on Friday called on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here and discussed the current political landscape in the Union Territory. Flanked by AICC general secretary G A Mir and Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra, the Rajya […]
JAMMU — Police on Wednesday scuttled a protest march here by the Congress over the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet against party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in connection with the 2014 National Herald case. Hundreds of Congress activists and leaders led by party’s J&K unit president Tariq Hameed Karra assembled at the party headquarters at […]