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COP HURLS SHOE AT OMAR

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Aug 15: A police official on Sunday hurled a shoe at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the I-Day function at heavily guarded Bakshi Stadium here.  The official identified as Head Constable, Abdul Ahad Jan son of Muhammad Dilawar Jan of Ajas Bandipora raised pro More

Resolve K-issue: Omar to Delhi

Asks Separatists To Call For Peace In Ramadan

Srinagar, Aug 15: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday made a passionate appeal to Government of India to move forward on resolving Kashmir issue. Asking separatists to announce truce during holy month of Ramadan Omar said the ongoing protests in the Valley were not going to yield anything except More

Omar 8th dignitary to face shoe protest

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Aug 15: The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Sunday became the eight high profile dignitary to face “shoe protest.”   Omar joined the club of elite dignitaries this morning when a policeman hurled a shoe towards him at Bakshi Stadium here when the I-day function More

Police quiz 20 officials

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 15: Taking the hurling of shoe on Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Sunday as a “security-lapse”, the investigation agencies have started questioning some civil and police officials, who were on duty at Bakshi Stadium here where the shoe missed the high profile target. Greater More

No PDP leader at I-day function

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 15: No party leader or legislator from the opposition People’s Democratic Party was present at the official I-day celebrations at Baskshi Stadium here on Sunday as they were not invited to the function.“Barring the party president,Mehbooba Mufti, and deputy speaker of the Legislative More

Geelani announces 10-day protest program

No Strike On Tuesdays, Friday Afternoon

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Aug 15: Maintaining that the ongoing agitation has reached a decisive phase due to the sacrifices rendered by the Kashmiris, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Sunday vowed to take the movement to its logical conclusion.  Geelani whose conglomerate is More

DAY 66: Protests continue

GOWHAR BHAT/KHALID GUL

Srinagar/Islamabad, Aug 15: Amid curfew, protests against recent killings continued to rock the Valley on Sunday as the present unrest entered into 66th day today. Scores of people were injured in the day long protests while police and paramilitary CRPF men allegedly beat up a teenage boy mercilessly More

Ikhwanis had torched Jan’s house, shot his son’

Jubilations In Cop’s Native Village

AZIM JAN

Bandipora, Aug 15: “We want freedom” shouted head constable Abdul Ahad Jan while he hurled his shoe towards the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah as he was unfurling the tri-color at Bakshi-Stadium here today.  Apparently disturbed at the civilian killings, Jan took the extreme step to give vent More



  • Opinion

Can It Make To UN?

The question that needs an answer

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

It is a dead letter, that cannot be delivered to the address written on it and cannot be equally returned to the person who sent it. This is how best I can describe the four point formula of former Pakistan More


  • Op-Ed

Dole is not the answer, dignity is

Shoe hurled at Chief Minister has a lot to convey. PM needs to go beyond just a package

GUEST COLUMN BY SEEMA MUSTAFA

A sub inspector sitting in the VIP enclosure at the Independence Day enclosure threw a well-polished shoe at Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. And within minutes became a hero in the Valley More



  • Letters

Let's ensure safety to our children first

This refers to the news in Greater Kashmir that in recent unrest police  has booked many minors below 18 years under Public Safety Act and under different sections of Ranbir Panel Code. If it is presumed More


  • Editorial

Self Help

Kashmir is passing through a worst phase of humanitarian crisis. The rulers instead of first reigning in the errant forces are trying to placate the angry people with the promises of jobs, and talks on More


  • Kashmir

Reminiscent of ‘90s, no prayers at Hazratbal shrine

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Aug 15: While it is very common for police and paramilitary forces to bar people from offering prayers at the historic Jamia Majid in Shahr-e-Khaas, it has happened after years with people offering More



  • Jammu

3 militants killed, man shot dead in Sopur

Jammu, Aug 15: Three militants were killed in a gunbattle with troops in Jammu and Kashmir while a civilian was shot dead in Sopur area. Acting on a tip-off that some militants were hiding in Rajdhani More


  • South Asia

Shoe thrower was angry: Farooq

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 15: The National Conference minister and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah said the policeman, who threw the shoe on his son and chief minister Omar Abdullah, must have been angry as action More


  • World

Kashmiris protest outside Indian embassy in Brussels

 Brussels, Aug 15: Scores of Kashmiris today held demonstration outside the Indian Embassy here on India’s I-Day and demanded immediate halt to the civilian killings in Kashmir.  Led by Jammu More



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