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Another macabre day
4 Killed In Fresh Firing; Khrew Youth Succumbs; People Defy Curfew; Shoot-At-Sight Ordered
GOWHAR BHAT/KHALID GUL
Srinagar/Islamabad Aug 3: Paramilitary CRPF troopers and policemen killed three youth here, while a youth fell to the bullets in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, and a youth injured in clashes at Khrew, 2-days ago, succumbed to injuries at SK Institute of Medical Sciences, officials and reports said More
Who foments Kashmir unrest?
Omar-Delhi Speak In Different Voices
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, Aug 3: There seems to be a major difference of opinion between the Government of India and the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the elements behind the ongoing unrest in Valley. As New Delhi blames “vested interests” supported by Pakistan for fomenting violence, the CM maintains More
PROTESTERS SHOT FROM CLOSE RANGE
Docs At SMHS Reveal Gory Condition Of Victims
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, Aug 3: In what can be termed as ‘outrageous’ attack on the protesting youth in the Valley, all the 32 patients admitted in SMHS here have been hit by bullets at point-blank range and above abdomen.Doctors in the hospital are seeing a pattern behind the police action on protesters. Doctors More
Delhi at odds with UN
Secy Gen's Spokesman Reiterates Kashmir Remarks
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 3: The External Affairs Ministry was Tuesday at odds with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s “gratuitous” remarks on Kashmir, which irked India but were welcomed by Pakistan.The ministry issued a statement saying that the Secretary General’s office had clarified More
Exercise restraint in Kashmir: Pak to India
REZAUL H LASKAR
Islamabad, Aug 3: Needling India over the violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Tuesday asked New Delhi to “exercise restraint” while expressing “unequivocal solidarity” with the Kashmiris.In a statement that may raise hackles in New Delhi, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke about “ More
PC to make statement on Kashmir today
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 3: Home Minister P Chidambaram will make a statement in the Lok Sabha Wednesday on the troubled situation in Kashmir, government sources said today.The unrest in Kashmir had come up in the House Monday with members expressing concern over the state of affairs, prompting the government More
Azad grieved
New Delhi, Aug 3: The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Tuesday expressed sorrow and grief over the loss of life and property during the recent unrest across the Kashmir Valley.“People being killed everyday in Kashmir is really painful More
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- Opinion
Classified common knowledge
Wikileaks simplify a complex war in Afghanistan
POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD
The posting of classified military documents on Afghanistan war on Wikileaks has created a flutter in the world. Around 90,000 documents minutely detail the ongoing war, especially Pakistan's links with More
- Op-Ed
Address the roots of indifference
KASHMIR IN WASHINGTON
PARTICIPANTS OF KASHMIR CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON VOICE CONCERN OVER THE DEEPENING CRISIS AND LOSS OF LIVES IN THE VALLEY, WRITES DR MALEEHA LODHI
Several Congressmen showed up at a conference in Washington to express concern over the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir and call for urgent efforts to address the dispute. This served as a contrast More
- Letters
Lives are to be protected at any cost
Kashmir is under siege yet again. The cabinet committee meeting called by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a clear proof of how the government of India looks at Kashmir. It was the second meeting called More
- Editorial
The Bloody Valley
The bloody tunnel in which all of Kashmir is trapped right now is proving too long to catch the sight of an end. Looking back into time, the gory turmoil is now spread over a period of almost two months More
- Kashmir
MINISTERS AIRBORNE TO AVOID PUBLIC CONTACT
VIPs Fly To Srinagar Airport By Choppers
M HYDERI
Srinagar, Aug 3: With the prevailing unrest spreading to the localities on the IG road, the ministers in Kashmir are using the state chopper even to reach the Srinagar airport for onward journey to Jammu More
- Jammu
Fuel supply to Valley suspended
Jammu, Aug 3: The Oil Tankers Association on Tuesday suspended the fuel supply to Kashmir Valley for indefinite period. Asserting that they will resume the supply only when sufficient security was provided More
- South Asia
Milli Council concerned over Kashmir unrest
Chennai, Aug 3: Expressing concern at the continuing “unrest” in Kashmir, the All India Milli Council (AIMC) Tuesday asked the protesters in the Valley to come to the negotiating table to solve the issue More
- World
US-led coalition losing Afghan war: Zardari
Paris, Aug 3: Coalition forces “are losing the war against the Taliban” in Afghanistan, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview published in France today. “The international community More




