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Troops open fire in Varmul, 6 injured

2 Injured In Old City; Curfew In Kunzar; Protests In Srinagar, Islamabad

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 3: Six persons were injured when army personnel opened fire in Auqaf Market Varmul on Friday after some youths hurled stones on them. Two of the injured persons were immediately rushed to Srinagar for treatment in critical condition.The incident occurred at around 6 pm when a group More


Saifullah arrested

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 3: Police on Friday evening arrested Hurriyat (G) leader Peer Saifullah in city outskirts in Nowgam area.He was spearheading “Quit Jammu and Kashmir Movement “along with other separatist leaders including Asiya Indrabi and Massarat Alam during past three months. He had also issued More


AI grounds passengers before take off

Cancels Booked Tickets To And From Valley

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sept 3: The state-owned Air India Friday left hundreds of passengers fuming after it cancelled the tickets it had booked to and from Kashmir for the next two days, raising a question mark over the feasibility of flights operation from the Awantipora Air Base- 25 kilometers from here.
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Flights operate smoothly: Govt

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 3: According to an official spokesman, flights operated ‘hassle free’ from Awantipora airport as per schedule Friday. “The administration had put all the arrangements in place to facilitate the passengers,” the spokesman said.According to the spokesman, passengers are checked in at More


‘Join our Movement’

Geelani To Pro-India Politicians

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Sept 3: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani Friday urged the pro-India politicians and activists to stop supporting genocide of Kashmiris and join the ongoing ‘Quit Kashmir Movement.’Addressing people at Friday congregational prayers at Pathar Masjid in old city here More


GoI ignoring ground realities: Malik

Asks Youth To Keep Protests Peaceful

MUDDASIR ALI/UMER MAQBOOL

Charar-i-Sharief (Budgam), Sept 3: The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Friday warned the government not to force Kashmiri youth to become Fidayeens (suicide bombers), by responding to the peaceful protests with bullets. The Front chairman urged Kashmiris to keep More


Mirwaiz reiterates unity call

‘Struggle Till Freedom’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Sept 3: On the occasion of Jamat-ul-Vida which was observed as Kashmir Day, lakhs of people led by Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq unanimously passed six resolutions at Jamia Masjid here including to carry on the ongoing struggle till ‘achievement of freedom.’The More


NO FIR YET IN SOURA YOUTH’S KILLING

Family Seeks Justice

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 3: The family of teenager Omar Qayoum Bhat of Soura, who died last week after being brutally tortured by police in custody, has said that police was not registering an FIR in the case. The family has sought justice for their only son and demanded punishment to the police officers who More




  • Opinion

The Black Ribbon Revolutionaries

KASHMIR IN DELHI

FOZIA S. QAZI NARRATES AN ACCOUNT OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY’S RECENT PARTICIPATION IN A BJP INITIATIVE FOR DIALOGUE

Focused, expressive and bold. That is what describes the 19 students from Islamic University of Science and Technology – who by articulating the Kashmiri cause in an unprecedented setting in Delhi caused More



  • Op-Ed

Moments and Movements

In the life of movements certain moments decisively test the responsibility and wisdom of leaders; of people as well.

MEHMOOD-UR-RASHID

Imagine a people waking up to the disappearance of all meaning. Nothing stands for anything and anything could be stretched to everything; could there be a catastrophe bigger than this! It is an imaginary More




  • Letters

Airport Chalo: Why communalize a simple political incompetence?

The first few lines of the article “Airport Chalo” in column INKSIGHT by Mehmood-ur-Rashid (02/09/2010) where the author refers to the airport as a “Hindu” airport clearly shows that it is the author whose More



  • Editorial

Beyond Probe

The government-appointed Commission of Inquiry, which is tasked probing the killings of 17 out of 65 civilians since June 11 by police and paramilitary forces, has started its work. The two-member commission More



  • Kashmir

Jumat-ul-Vida observed in JK

Srinagar, Sept 3: Large congregational prayers marked Jumat-ul-Vida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadhan, in Kashmir valley and Jammu.   The day was also observed as Yaum-e-Quds and More




  • Jammu

Ramban youth dies of diarrhoea

Doctor Suspended For Alleged Negligence, Probe Ordered

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Ramban, Sept 3: The district administration today suspended a doctor and ordered a magisterial enquiry into the death of a teenager, hospitalized for acute diarrhoea. Identified as Irfan Ahmed son More



  • South Asia

Manushi ‘Citizens First’ Forum submits Kashmir memo to Sonia Gandhi

 New Delhi, Sept 3: Manushi ‘Citizens First’ Forum on Friday submitted a memorandum to the Chairperson of United Progressive Alliance and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi suggesting a nine-point action More



  • World

India conveys concern to China

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Beijing, Sept 3: India today conveyed its concern to China over its “activity and presence” in Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan-administered-Kashmir region in the backdrop of reports that up to 11,000 Chinese More




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