- TOP STORIES
Death continues to rule
2 Killed On Friday; Valley-Wide Protests; Demos Across Pir Panchal
KHALID GUL/GOWHAR BHAT
Islamabad/Srinagar, Aug 20: The number of civilians killed by police and CRPF in the ongoing unrest since June 11 reached 62 as a youth was shot dead in Islamabad in South Kashmir while a Sopur youth who had sustained fatal injuries in CRPF action late last evening succumbed to injuries at SKIMS this More
Muddasir first victim of deadly pellet gun
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, Aug 20: After teargas shells and bullets, forces are now resorting to pellet firing on protesters causing multiple injuries to the victims, which doctors say is more dangerous than bullet injuries.The paramilitary CRPF on Thursday fired cluster of pellets in Sopur and Soura on protesters More
Indefinite curfew in Srinagar
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar Aug 20: According to District Magistrate Srinagar, areas under the jurisdiction of police stations/police posts of district Srinagar including Batamaloo, Bemina, Qamarwari, Kralkhud, Nowhatta, Khanyar, MR Gunj, Safakadal, Rainawari, Maisuma, Shaheedgunj and Abi-Guzar area of Police Station, More
CRPF IN DOCK OVER INNOCENT KILLINGS
Police Registers Murder Case In Sopur
UMER MAQBOOL DAR
Srinagar, Aug 20: Police on Friday registered a murder case against the paramilitary CRPF troopers for the killing a teenager in the Apple Town of Sopur last night.An FIR (414/2010) under section 302 RPC has been registered against CRPF for killing 19-year-old Mudasir Ahmed Hajam in ‘unprovoked More
Prayers in Hazratbal shrine after 6 days
Police Company Shifted, 2 Barracks Dismantled
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Aug 20: Prayers resumed in the Hazratbal shrine here on Friday after the six-day long stalemate ended, with Jammu and Kashmir government accepting the people’s demands including the shifting of police barracks from the shrine complex.Hundreds of devotees offered the congregational Asr More
FIR against JKAP
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 20: Police has registered a case against the armed company of the Jammu and Kashmir Police that assaulted the Station House Officer Nigeen in Hazratbal on Thursday.Source said the case was registered after the policemen of the company assaulted the SHO who objected to go for ‘indiscriminate More
Geelani unwell, advised rest
Rejects Sonia’s Statement
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 20: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s health deteriorated Friday morning after he complained of breathlessness and acute pain in chest.The veteran leader’s family told Greater Kashmir that doctors have diagnosed him suffering from acute bronchitis and advised More
Commission of Inquiry to look into only 17 killings
No Decision On Other 45 Killings: Govt
MUDDASIR ALI
Srinagar, Aug 20: Though the state cabinet last month constituted the Commission of Inquiry ‘to look into the killing of 17 civilians in police and CRPF action during the past two months,’ the government is tight-lipped over the fate other 45 killings during the same period even as the death toll More
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Chairman of Hurriyat (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq leads a procession in Old City on Friday.
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Doctors treating the AFP photographer Tauseef Mustafa who was wounded in police action at Nowhatta
- Opinion
Ball in Delhi's court
By exercising force, you are pushing it from bad to worse
WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED
The conditions that obtain at present in Kashmir are simply stifling. Maintaining this status quo equals to perpetuating injustice, endlessly. For more than six decades now, people of Kashmir are engaged More
- Letters
All must join hands to avoid bloodshed
I am very much pained by the recent killings during the civilian unrest in the Kashmir Valley, more so since a substantial number of victims are teenagers. As much as I deplore the deaths and the actions More
- Editorial
Pakistan floods
The devastating floods, worst-ever in Pakistan’s history have shattered lives in the country at an unimaginable scale. Millions of families have lost just everything—homes, livestock, crops, and, in some More
- Kashmir
Shun dual tactics: Mirwaiz to mainstream parties
WITH US OR AGAINST US?
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, Aug 20: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday asked the leaders of mainstream parties in Kashmir to shun “dual power politics” and maintained it was high time More
- Jammu
Court grants bail to 13 students
PRO-FREEDOM SLOGAN CASE
Jammu, Aug 20: The Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu Friday granted bail to thirteen out of fourteen students, who were arrested and booked under Unlawful Activities Act, for raising pro-freedom slogans More
- South Asia
Don’t worry: Centre to Sikh community
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 20: The Centre Government today held out an assurance to Sikh community that they had nothing to fear in Kashmir in the wake of reported threats to the minority community to convert to Islam More
- World
Pakistan accepts Indian aid offer
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New York/Washington, Aug 20: After dithering for a week, Pakistan today accepted India's offer of USD five million in aid for flood relief in the country and appreciated its "very positive" gesture. More
