Kashmir erupts

Protests Across Valley; 2 Injured In Downtown; Curfew In Srinagar, Islamabad; Pattan Tense

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 7: Angry protests were witnessed across the Valley on Tuesday against the killing of four persons in police firing in Palhalan on Monday. The Government clamped a curfew in the summer capital here and in Islamabad town while restrictions on civilian movement were in place elsewhere More

NIGHT PROTESTS ACROSS CITY

Srinagar, Sept 7: Massive and widespread protests broke out across the Srinagar city during the Shab-e-Qadr Monday night.Immediately after Taraweeh prayers concluded, motley groups of youth took to streets in several localities including Nowhatta, Rainawari, Khanyar, Nowpora, Karan Nagar, Kralkhud More

Police, CRPF hinder movement of ambulances

Dir SKIMS Aghast; Drivers Face Ordeal

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sept 7: Police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force Tuesday hindered movement of ambulances, affecting the transportation of patients and staff to the SK Institute of Medical Sciences and SMHS hospital, medicos alleged.Several ambulance drivers, who spoke to Greater Kashmir More

Palhallan, a village in mourning

‘There Was No Stone Pelting, Police Firing Was Unprovoked’

ALTAF BABA

Palhallan, Sept 7: For ensuring safe passage to a top police official, can policemen shower bullets on unarmed civilians? This is the question which everybody asks in this apple rich village in North Kashmir where four persons were killed when police allegedly fired on them without any provocation More

Survivors recount nightmare

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sept 7: The Post Operative Ward of the SK Institute of Medical Sciences at Soura presents a gory look.There is a pandemonium inside. The ward is flooded with patients hit by bullets, most of whom are stated to be critical while only a few declared as stable. Two new bullet injury More

GOI to probe Capt Kohli’s ‘mysterious’ death

Lolab Fake Encounter Fallout

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Sept 7: Defence Minister AK Antony has ordered a re-investigation into the mysterious death of Captain Sumit Kohli in Jammu and Kashmir, heeding to the demands of his family that had maintained that it was a murder and not a suicide as claimed by the Army.Antony, who had met the family More

Have already passed resolution: Hurriyat (M)

Srinagar, Sept 7: The Hurriyat Conference (M) on Tuesday said the conglomerate had already passed resolutions on the five conditions including revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and release of detainees for restoring normalcy in the Valley.Reacting to the memorandum forwarded More

5-point proposal responded with 4 killings: Geelani

‘No Option But To Intensify Agitation’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Sept 7: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Tuesday accused New Delhi of reacting to his five conditions for restoring peace in the Valley by killing of four youth in Pattan on Monday. He said Kashmiris were left with no option but to intensify the ongoing agitation More