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Autonomy won’t work: Pak

Islamabad Restates Support For Right To Self Determination

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 12: Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed willingness to consider devolution of powers to Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Thursday said such measures would not help resolve the vexed issue and reiterated its support for “right to self-determination” for the Kashmiris.“It More

India reiterates conditional dialogue offer

Press Trust Of India

New Delhi, Aug 12: India is willing to hold sustained dialogue with Pakistan if Islamabad gives an assurance that its soil will not be used to direct attacks and foment anti-India feelings, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said Thursday.Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in More

Magistrates fail to enforce restraint

‘Troops, Police Use Force Without Our Consent’

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Aug 12: The posting of executive magistrates for law and order duties is proving to be a futile exercise as police and CRPF troopers continue to use force on protesters in the Valley without their permission.Senior officials in the administration told Greater Kashmir that magistrates More

Valley has only 2 critical care ambulances; 1 for CM, 1 for Governor

Civilians Die On Way To Hospitals

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Aug 12: It’s unbelievable but true. Kashmir has no ambulances with critical care and life-support system for commoners. The only available ambulances are functional with Governor and the Chief Minister of the state.The lack of such ambulances in the Valley is proving to be costly in More

Dr Singh’s redundant prescription for Kashmir

Rx Rangarajan I, Rangarajan II, Rangarajan III

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Aug 12: From free rice in 1953 to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s present Rs 30000 cr economic package, New Delhi has constantly been mistaking wood for the tree in Kashmir. Going by the new and unorthodox expression received by the Kashmir problem, courtesy new breed of articulate voices More

Education an essential service?

Govt Not Clear, DSEK Unaware

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Aug 12: The Jammu and Kashmir Government is not coming clear on whether education has been declared as an “essential service” following prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley, as announced by the Minister for Education, Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed, in Jammu recently.While the announcement More

Business as usual after noon

Dawn Protests In City, Towns

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 12: Markets opened and it was business as usual in Kashmir Valley after noon on Thursday as Hurriyat Conference (G) had called off strike for a day owing to the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.However the day started with protests just after dawn prayers. Witnesses said as More

Army to remain in Kashmir till problem is there: Gen Singh

Press Trust Of India

Bangalore, Aug 12: Chief of army staff General VK Singh Thursday said the army would remain in Kashmir valley till the crisis persisted there.“The army will remain in Kashmir till the problem is there. The Army, which is needed for security of the border, is already there. It is neither more nor More



  • Opinion

Lumpenisation of Indian media

COMMENT

51 LIVES IN 57 DAYS, WE NEED AN ANSWER FROM INDIAN MEDIA, COMMENTS HASSAN ZAINAGIREE

The day when Indian media relieves itself of Kashmir-phobia and stops feeding lies to people and polluting minds on false reporting, misconceptions and disinformation, that day will herald India’s tryst More


  • Op-Ed

Thank you Thapars, Roys and Vardharajans

VOICES HEARD

SOMEWHERE BENEATH THE DEAD BODIES IN KASHMIR, HUMANITY LIES BURIED. ANYBODY WHO RECOGNIZES THE FACT MUST BE DULY ACKNOWLEDGED, WRITES BASIM AMIN BAZAZ

Fifty by no means is a small number. It becomes even bigger, when it counts the number of corpses that have been laid to rest by wailing families. In the last two months, 50 people have been reported dead More



  • Letters

One wonders how they become trained outside Kashmir

This refers to the statement of Prof Saif ud din Soz and other politicians and political analysts who have connected the brutal killings by CRP to their lack of training to tackle huge mobs. This is again More


  • Friday Focus

Ramadan and Our Plight

PROF G R MALIK

Once more the blessed month of Ramadan has arrived. This year, however, it is casting its benign shadow on us at a time when we are passing through the most frightening and tragic phase of the nightmare More


  • Kashmir

Farukh’s killing shatters Bukhari family

HE WAS BUNDLED IN RAKSHAK VEHICLE: EYEWITNESS

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Kreeri, (Varmul) Aug 12: Family members of 19-year old Farukh Bukhari, whose body was recovered from Choora village in north Kashmir’s Varmul district on Tuesday, are inconsolable.   Farukh, More



  • Jammu

BJP gives Lal Chowk Chalo call

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Aug 12: After more than 20 years, Bharatiya Janata Party has again given a call for Lal Chowk Chalo on August 15 to hoist the tricolor at the historic Chowk. The party has claimed that about More


  • South Asia

AJK cabinet condemns HR violations in Kashmir

URGES UN TO CALL EMERGENCY SESSION

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Aug 12: Voicing its full support to the ongoing peaceful struggle in Kashmir, the AJK cabinet met on Thursday and passed a unanimous resolution denouncing what it termed as the gross human rights More



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