FAMILIES OF SLAIN HR DEFENDERS PIN HOPE ON UN RAPPORTEUR

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Jan 18: While the United Nations Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya is scheduled to visit Kashmir on Wednesday to assess the situation of human rights defenders, justice still eludes the families of several such defenders killed in different incidents in Kashmir in the past two decades.  More

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Sekaggya arrives today

UN Rapporteur to meet civil society, HR groups

Srinagar, Jan 18: The United Nation’s Special Rapporteur will meet the Civil Society and human rights groups on Wednesday here to assess the condition of human rights defenders. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya during her one-day visit to More

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JKLF to hold prayer meeting on Jan 21

GAW KADAL MASSACRE

Srinagar, Jan 18: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front is organizing a special prayer meeting in memory of the martyrs of Gaw Kadal massacre here on January 21, Friday, at Basant Bagh Chowk here.  The Front leaders including its chairman Muhammad Yaseen Malik, parents of martyred people and others More

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Army vehicle ‘crushes’ woman

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 18: The killing of a 65-year old woman in a road mishap allegedly involving an army vehicle triggered massive protests in Langate area of north Kupwara district on Tuesday.  Eyewitnesses told Greater Kashmir, Ateeqa Begum of Dangiwacha Rafiabad was allegedly hit by an Army vehicle More

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Ration scarcity in Kupwara

SHAHID RAFIQ

Kupwara, Jan 18: The residents of this frontier district today complained of acute scarcity of ration and blamed the district administration of indifference over the issue. The local alleged that the ration depots were empty and the consumers had to purchase the essential commodities from More

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JKLF (R) welcomes Pak proposal

Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R) chairman, Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karatey and senior–vice-chairman, Javid Ahmad Mir on Tuesday welcomed the Pakistan proposal of “involving Kashmiris in the talks aimed at successfully resolving the issue.”  In a statement, Front leaders said More

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‘Cooperate with applicants seeking info under JK RTI Act’

Kupwara, Jan 18: ADDC Kupwara, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Bhat today asked the officers to fully cooperate with those seeking the information under JK Right To Information Act. Addressing a workshop about Right To Information here, he said under the Act, “We are bound to inform the public about the More

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Pattan residents oppose ‘change of site’ for sub-judge court complex

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 18: The inhabitants of Pattan today appealed to the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir and District Development Commissioner Baramulla to prevent the ‘change of site’ for sub-judge court complex proposed to come up in Pattan near Tehsil office. A delegation said that some 20 years More

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