- TOP STORIES
Death is back
Sopur Boy Succumbs; Protests Continue; Curfew Relaxed In Uptown
GOWHAR BHAT/UMAR MAQBOOL DAR
Srinagar, Aug 7: A youth who was critically wounded in police firing in Warpora Sopur on Friday succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS on Saturday morning, taking the number of persons killed by police and CRPF since June 11 to 50. Curfew continued to remain in force across the Valley barring uptown Srinagar More
Geelani takes charge, issues protest program
‘Won’t Accept Anything Less Than Plebiscite’
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, Aug 7: For the first time since the launch of ‘Quit Jammu & Kashmir Movement’ on June 25, the Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday announced a fresh protest program, saying he won’t accept any other solution to Kashmir other than right to self-determination More
No scope for talks yet: Mirwaiz
‘Dialogue, Killings Can’t Go Together’
Gk NEWSNETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 7: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Saturday said New Delhi had failed to take Confidence Building Measures to build trust and pave way for resolution of the Kashmir dispute according to the aspirations of Kashmiris.Reacting to the statement of Union Home More
Innocents continue to die: Mehbooba
Gk NEWSNETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 7: Peoples Democratic Party Saturday said that though stone pelting had effectively disappeared from the streets of Kashmir following the intervention of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the ‘trigger-happy’ forces continue to shoot unarmed youth.Condemning the killing of another youth, Rameez More
Delegation headed for Delhi
PDP Not In; Time For Action: NC, Cong
MUDASIR ALI
Srinagar, Aug 7: With the political delegation from Jammu and Kashmir headed for New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to discuss the prevailing crisis in the Valley, the ruling coalition partners National Conference and state Congress maintain it was time for New Delhi to More
MISUSING UN TAG?
RAF Helmets, Shields Trigger Suspense
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Aug 7: The arrival of Rapid Action Force (RAF), brandishing the United Nations tag, has triggered more suspense than “deterrence” among people.In the past two days, when scores of RAF men carried out flag marches in different city areas, observers found the cops having ‘UN’ inscribed More
UN defends spokesman over Kashmir row
‘World Body Takes Exception To Anti-Haq Media Tirade’
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
United Nations, Aug 7: An extraordinary attack on the Indian media and defence of Pakistani-origin aide of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon marked another round of the raging row over Kashmir at the world body’s headquarters in United Nations.Ban’s chief spokesperson Martin Nesirky defended his More
Leh cloudburst toll 132
600 Missing
Press Trust Of India
Leh, Aug 7: Twenty bodies were Saturday pulled out from slush and debris in Leh town ravaged by flash floods, raising the toll to 132 even as rescuers intensified operations in the high altitude terrain to search for 600 missing people.Six Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief material, rescue More
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Kashmiris stage a protest sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday.
Searching For Stones?
CRPF trooper frisking a teenage schoolgirl at Zainakadal in old city area of Srinagar on Saturday.(Aman Farooq/GK)
- Opinion
Cycle of Silence
This actually triggers the cycle of violence
WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAUQE
New Delhi's silence on the recent killings in Kashmir is painful. Of course, Kashmir does figure in their parliament debate, but the silence is deep rooted at a different level. What is happening here More
- Op-Ed
Kashmir: A way forward
Creating a win-win-win for all from the current movement
DATELINE SRINAGAR BY ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIB
For the first time in many decades, Kashmir’s movement for the restoration of its lost political sovereignty has attained a big moral high ground. The current upsurge – which many Indian analysts admit More
- Letters
Had Sheikh joined hands with Kak?
This refers to the letter We Mourn by Dr.Dhar (Greater Kashmir, August 4). He says that it was Pandir Ram Chandra Kak, the then Prime Minister of the Jammu & Kashmir State who had raised his voice More
- Editorial
Humanitarian concerns
As the complete disruption of normal life in Kashmir Valley is now about to enter the third month, the situation for more than six million people living in this landlocked place is aggravating with each More
- Kashmir
CRPF DISRUPTING POWER SUPPLY: LOCALS
Helpless PDD makes repairs, Div Com concerned
M HYDERI
Srinagar, Aug 7: Residents of many areas have accused paramilitary CRPF of disrupting power supply in the city by snapping transmission lines. Pestered at the alleged misconduct of the paramilitary More
- Jammu
Education declared as essential service: Peerzada
‘Govt bans mid term transfers from August’
Jammu, Aug 7: The government has declared education as essential services in the state, Minister for School Education, Peerzada Sayeed said Saturday. He said that an order to this effect has already More
- South Asia
PRO-FREEDOM SLOGANS REVERBERATE IN NEW DELHI
GK NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi, Aug 7: For the first time in the past 60-years Kashmiris in New Delhi on Saturday raised pro-freedom slogans and staged a massive pro-freedom demonstration. Hundreds of Kashmiris including More
- World
US Muslim body for international probe into Kashmir killings
Use of force against civilians must stop: MPAC
Washington, Aug 7: Calling for an immediate end to use of force against civilians in turmoil-hit Kashmir, an influential Muslim civil liberties group in USA has called for an impartial international probe More
