Facts, half facts and fiction!

DEBATE

Dr. Javid Iqbal joins the debate over the history of accession responding to Prof. Fida Husnain’s Don't distort facts published in GK

Prof. Fida Husnain ( ‘Don't distort facts’ dated 29.10.2010)  had me join the ‘GK’ debate, though I shudder to think of joining issue with the learned Professor- colleague of my late father-Prof. Saif-ud-Din. (a Professor of History like Prof. Fida Husnain). My father had highest respect for More
Kashmir: Where women die giving birth

AILING HEALTHCARE

Situation would not improve unless the availability, accessibility and awareness of Kashmir people improve, writes Salman Nizami

Deaths of women caused during childbirth have become alarming in the Valley. Every year, about 6,000 mothers die in childbirth and allied complications of pregnancy. According to UNICEF, figures illustrated indicate that poor women have been left behind by state’s economic boom. India's maternal mortality More
Obama, India and Kashmir

DISCOURSE

Let’s hope the US policy towards Kashmir is guided by the principles of a just and durable peace, writes Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

On the eve of the visit to India by President Barack Obama which may well prove truly historic if it begins to move the Kashmir dispute towards a genuine settlement. Americans of Kashmiri origin submit to President Obama that it has been most unfortunate that since the beginning of the resistance More
  • Kashmir

Geelani asks people to enforce civil curfew on Nov 6,7,8

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 3: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday reiterated conglomerate’s civil curfew call for November 6,7 and 8th to mark the death anniversary of the Muslims More


  • Srinagar City

Ghosts blacktop City streets!

R&B, SMC disown odd time job; locals seek probe

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Nov 3: At a time when the macadamization season has ended in Kashmir, are ghosts getting a street blacktopped at Batamaloo? Well, this is what one could ask when the concerned departments disown More



  • Jammu

Shabir Shah released

Jammu, Nov 3: The state government on Wednesday released the senior Hurriyat Conference (M) leader and chairman of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmed Shah from Kotbalwal jail here.  The Hurriyat More


  • Business

SBI opens 52nd branch in Valley

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 3: Country’s largest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI) opened a branch at Qaziguund in South Kashmir. This is the bank’s 52nd branch in the Valley.  A U Tak, Regional Manager SBI More


  • News

'US can play role to resolve Kashmir'

Islamabad, Nov 3: The convener of APHC-M Pak chapter, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar has appealed to the US President, Barrack Hussain Obama to persuade Indian leadership to help resolve the Kashmir dispute peacefully More


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