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 […]
SRINAGAR — Omar Abdullah should have raised the death of two youths in Sopore and Kathua during his meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said. “There were two deaths recently. A truck driver Waseem was killed in army firing from close range, the doctors have confirmed it, […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Monday criticised the government move to suspend two PSOs of her daughter and party leader Iltija Mufti. “Ironic and unfair that Iltija’s two PSOs have been suspended for no fault of their own. They were punished simply because Iltija managed to reach Kathua despite being […]
JAMMU — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Iltija Mufti on Sunday demanded a judicial inquiry into two alleged incidents of human rights violations in Kathua and Baramulla districts of Jammu and Kashmir. Iltija, daughter of PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, visited the family of a youth who recently committed suicide in Kathua […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday lashed out at the authorities for preventing her daughter and party leader Iltija Mufti from addressing a press conference in Jammu. “Visiting and offering solace to the families of victims has now been criminalised. This is evident from the latest actions of the police, who have detained […]
KATHUA — PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Sunday met the family of a youth who recently committed suicide after alleged torture by police over his suspected links with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, party leaders said. This comes a day after Iltija claimed that she and her mother Mehbooba Mufti had been placed […]
KULGAM — Amid chaos over the killing of ex-serviceman Manzoor Ahmad Wagay, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Iltija Mufti on Wednesday questioned the silence of Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir over young boys in multiple districts of the valley being allegedly “picked up”. “Not only in Kulgam but Budgam and Ganderbal, young boys […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA from Pulwama Waheed Para, who is undergoing trial in a UAPA case, on Tuesday said the criminal justice system of the country needs radical reforms, as the “slow pace of prosecution traps the accused and their families in uncertainty”. “Once an undertrial, always an undertrial,” Para posted on […]