JAMMU — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, seeking his support for three private member bills to be tabled by legislators from her party in the upcoming Budget Session of the assembly. The bills forwarded by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLAs seek regularisation and recognition of […]
SRINAGAR — Irtiqa Mufti, the eldest daughter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, has taken a political stand against alcohol consumption in Jammu and Kashmir, and sought support from the public for the party’s campaign to ban liquor in the Union Territory. In a video message on X seeking support for the PDP’s […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday urged the CRPF to initiate disciplinary proceedings against a jawan for allegedly thrashing and injuring a man in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district. She also shared a clip, purported to be of the man injured by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan, on X. “Mohammed Yousuf […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the role of the assembly speaker is to safeguard the rights of members of the legislature and not to act as a censor. Her remarks came after Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather took a serious note of publicity of the House business notices […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday launched a signature campaign here to garner support for a complete ban on liquor in Jammu and Kashmir. The signature campaign, aimed to garner support for a bill proposed by the party MLA Mir Mohammad Fayaz that seeks a complete ban on liquor in the union territory, was […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to refrain from endorsing the Centre’s abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A in the formulation of business rules for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. The former chief minister warned that such a move would legitimise the “illegal and unconstitutional” actions […]
JAMMU — Senior PDP legislator is going to introduce a private members bill in the Budget Session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly next month to seek proprietary rights for the owners of houses constructed on public land in the Union Territory. PDP MLA from Pulwama Waheed ur Rehman Parra submitted the bill titled […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said “arbitrary and summary” dismissal of employees was continuing even after an elected government has taken office in Jammu and Kashmir. Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, earlier in the day, invoked Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution to terminate the services of the three […]
JAMMU — Terming the problem of Jammu and Kashmir as an “incurable disease”, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said the BJP seemed not interested in its resolution like the Pakistani military leadership to polarize the situation for votes in the country. She advocated resolution of the issue in the larger interest of peace and […]
JAMMU — PDP MLA from Kupwara Fayaz Ahmad Mir has submitted a private member’s bill to be tabled during the upcoming budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, seeking prohibition of liquor in the Union Territory. Mir forwarded the three-page bill to the assembly secretariat on Monday, the last date for submitting of the […]