- TOP STORIES
Govt foils separatist march
Curfew, Restrictions Paralyse Valley
GOWHAR BHAT
Srinagar, July 13: Authorities imposed curfew and restrictions across the summer capital to stave off protests and thwart rallies called by separatist groups on the martyrs’ day on Tuesday.Police and CRPF personnel, deployed in strength, sealed and secured the martyrs’ graveyard at Naqshband Sahab More
Omar, Mufti, Soz visit Mazar-e-Shuhada
NASEER AHMAD
Srinagar, July 13: Amid tight security and curfew like restrictions, leaders of National Conference, Congress and opposition Peoples Democratic Party today offered floral tributes and prayers to the martyrs of July 13, 1931 at the Martyrs Graveyard in the old city here.National Conference leaders More
MIRWAIZ WRITES TO BAN KI MOON
‘Help Resolve Kashmir Dispute’
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, July 13: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Tuesday asked the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, to compel India and Pakistan to initiate substantive dialogue on Kashmir for the permanent, durable and honorable settlement of the longstanding dispute.
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UN monitoring situation
OIC Condemns Civilian Killings
GK Monitoring Desk
United Nations, July 13: The United Nations has said that the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was aware of the prevailing situation in Kashmir since the unrest began a fortnight ago and was monitoring the situation, a UN spokesman has said.The spokesman refrained from making any further comments on More
36 youth booked in Islamabad
KHALID GUL
Islamabad, July 13: Following the cold blooded murder of three teenagers in this South Kashmir town on June 29 allegedly by police, 36 youths have been booked by the police for ‘their involvement in protests and stone pelting.’“Five youths have been booked under Section 307 RPC for attempting More
Peace march by Jammu civil society
JKPF Calls For Troop Cut, AFSPA Revocation
SYED AMJAD SHAH
Jammu, July 13: Joined by intellectuals, politicians, educationists, socialists and student organisations, the Jammu and Kashmir Peace Front (JKPF) took out a peace march here on Tuesday, insisting government to stop human rights violations in Kashmir valley.The activists assembled at the Exhibition More
All Party Meet a damp squib: Mufti
Calls For Inclusive Peace Initiative
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, July 13: The patron of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party reiterated today that the Prime Minister should intervene and call a high level meeting to address the issues confronting Jammu and Kashmir.Mufti described the All Party Meeting convened by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as More
MP to ‘scrutinize’ Kashmiri students
‘We Feel Insecure Here’
UMER MAQBOOL DAR
Srinagar, July 13: As the Madhya Pradesh government formed a committee to ‘scrutinize’ Kashmiri students, panic gripped thousands of Kashmiris studying in the BJP-ruled state.Students from the Valley pursuing studies in different colleges of Madhya Pradesh told Greater Kashmir that they were feeling More
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Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah laying wreath at the Martyrs graveyard in Srinagar on Wednesday.(Habib Naqash/GK)
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Peoples Democratic Party chief patron and former Chief Minister,Mufti Muhammad Sayeed offering floral tributes to the Martyrs.(Habib Naqash/GK)
- Opinion
The truth about Kashmir
State government can do little beyond an adhoc response to the situation in Valley
POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD
''The baton of the freedom struggle has now been passed on to the next generation who by sacrificing their precious lives have reinforced the universally accepted fact that it might be possible to annihilate More
- Op-Ed
The valley besieged
KASHMIR BURNS
IS BULLET THE ONLY ANSWER? HAS LIFE NO VALUE IN THE VALLEY OF THE DEAD, ASKS SAMIR HILAL
Ah! The life in Kashmir, the life at home was so interesting some years back. Lot of work to do, lot of cricket to play and lot of beating to be had at home for all carelessness in studies. But today it More
- Letters
Punishment is a necessary evil
If God loves us, and wants us to be happy, then why doesn’t he just make us happy? Or, why, specifically, does he have to punish us for doing wrong? Why there has to be a punishment for things done More
- Editorial
Access Denied
Suspension of SMS services this time over is nothing new. Although it does deserve to be discussed as an infringement of public rights, but faced with far tougher restrictions people in Kashmir have almost More
- Kashmir
Kashmir pays tributes to 1931 martyrs
‘THEY LAID FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, July 13: Cutting across political ideologies, various organizations have paid tributes to the martyrs of July 13, 1931, on their martyrdom anniversary, reiterating the pledge to take their mission More
- Srinagar City
When Haathi Khan residents shed blood for 1931 Martyrs memorial
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, July 13: It required countless sacrifices for making a memorial on the spot where 21 valiant Kashmiris fell to bullets of tyrrant Dogra soldiers at Haathi Khan locality outside the Central Jail More
- Jammu
Jammu migrants to hold
‘Delhi Chalo’ on August 3
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, July 13: Migrants from the Jammu region are holding ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on August 3 to protest against the alleged discrimination by the state government. Under the banner of Jammu Migrants More
- South Asia
Hizb organizes conference on Martyrs Day
SALUHUDDIN REJECTS INDO-PAK DIALOGUE
ROSHAN MUGHAL/ NISAR A THOKAR
Muzafarrabad/ Islamabad ,July 13: The Hizbul Mujahideen on Tuesday hosted a number of speakers invited to commemorate Martyrs Day at a conference held here. The venue of the event was University Grounds More
- Business
Valley wedding industry in doldrums
Faces losses worth crores of rupees
RABIA NOOR
Srinagar, July 13: Where the weather vagaries this year consumed much of the marriage season in the Valley, the turbulent situations prevailing over past about a month now, took away the remaining sheen More
- World
Saudi Arabia tops compliance in money laundering
Jeddah, July 13: Saudi Arabia has won the first position among Arab countries and 10th among G20 countries in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report on its compliance with international resolutions More




