SRINAGAR — “Hope you don’t disappoint me and give me an opportunity to be your advocate in Parliament,” PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday in her appeal to voters on the eve of polling in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. The PDP chief, working to revive her party’s fortunes following its alliance with the […]
SRINAGAR — Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has criticised the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, questioning her allegiance to the INDIA bloc and the PAGD, and alleging she never campaigned against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), solely targeting his National Conference. Reiterating the unity of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) and […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir, will rally support for the abolition of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the party’s youth wing president Waheed Ur Rehman Para said. Para, who served an 18-month jail term following his arrest in […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Wednesday hit out at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti for her “Hawala money from Pakistan” barb at the Apni Party, saying it is better to fight elections by propagating “your party agenda and policies” rather than making “bitter” comments. The Altaf Bukhari-led Apni Party, which is […]
JAMMU — The BJP is supporting a party which has been involved in Hawala money pumped in from Pakistan to fund militancy in Kashmir, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday, in a veiled attack on Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari. Bukhari, a former PDP leader, was expelled from the party in January 2019. His […]
JAMMU — Despite fielding her party’s candidates against the National Conference on three Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said her party continues to be a part of INDIA bloc on ideological basis and agrees with it on the need to safeguard the Constitution. The NC, also a […]
JAMMU — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti claimed on Monday that the high voter turnout in Kashmir in the fourth and fifth phases of polling for the ongoing Lok Sabha election is reflective of people’s anger against the BJP-led centre for abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcating the erstwhile state of […]
JAMMU — Reaching out to displaced Kashmiri Pandits, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday assured them of her party’s support in their return and rehabilitation in the valley, provided they ‘demonstrate boldness and come back to their homes’. Mehbooba, a former chief minister who is fighting Lok Sabha elections from the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, […]
JAMMU — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the twin militant attacks in Kashmir reflects the failure of the government, claiming that it could be “deliberate” to frighten people ahead of the polling for the Lok Sabha polls. Militants struck at two places in south Kashmir on Saturday night, killing Aijaz Sheikh, a former […]
SRINAGAR — A convoy carrying Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), met with an accident in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir. The incident resulted in injuries to one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel. Reports reaching Srinagar based news agency Kashmir […]