Valley simmers under indefinite curfew, violent clashes rock south, north Kashmir

Pattan youth succumbs, toll 70, media gagged, scribe thrashed

Situation Round Up

Srinagar, Sept 12: A day after violent protests over the killing spree rocked Kashmir, authorities on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr clamped indefinite curfew across the Valley. However, at various places people defied the restrictions triggering violent clashes which More

Malik, Mirwaiz join hands

Pledge To Carry Forward Ongoing Movement

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Sept 10: In a significant development, the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik, Friday joined hands with Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, at the historic Jamia Masjid here, pledging to carry forward the ongoing movement for More

No let up in protests

Cop Among Dozen Injured In Nowhatta Clashes

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 10: Post-prayer protests and clashes broke out in downtown Nowhatta on Jumat-ul-vida Friday—the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan—leaving a dozen persons injured.The trouble erupted after a joint rally of pro-freedom leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik concluded More

NO PRISONER RELEASED ON EID

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 10: Putting to rest all speculations about their release, hundreds of youth arrested by police in the past three months of unrest in Kashmir would spend this Eid-ul-Fitr in captivity as they have not been released on the festival.Sources said more than 1000 youth, most of them teenagers More

Govt indifference spoils historic Eidgah

Waqf Board Remembers Cleaning On Eid Eve; Beautification A Hoax

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sept 10: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has, not surprisingly, remembered cleaning of the historic Eidgah here barely few hours before Eid-ul-Fitr—the day when tens of thousands of Muslims throng the place to offer congregational prayers. For rest of the year, the Muslim Waqf Board, which More

Geelani releases booklet on Eid eve

Discusses Challenges, Roadmap Of Movement

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Sept 10: Why have Kashmiris taken to streets? What should be their future strategy to achieve the right to self-determination? These questions have been comprehensively answered by the arrested chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani in his booklet ‘Sogwaran Ki Eid (Eid More

Unattended in peripheral areas, they bled to death

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Sept 10: Lack of facilities in the periphery hospitals has resulted in the death of several victims of police and para-military CRPF firing in Kashmir during the ongoing unrest.One of the ill-fated is Noor-ud-Din Tantray of Palahalan, Pattan, who received a police bullet in his right More

Differences emerge in Cong meet

CCS Meeting Today

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Sept 10: Differences over Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir cropped up at the Congress Core Group discussions here today ahead of the Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on the issue on Saturday as government appeared to be treading a cautious path.After More

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