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Indo-Pak talks on July 27

Hina To Hold Parleys With Krishna In New Delhi

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA/IANS

New Delhi, July 21: India and Pakistan Thursday announced that talks between their foreign ministers will take place on July 27.In New Delhi, the external affairs ministry announced that Pakistan’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar would visit New Delhi for the bilateral talks More

PC,Malik may meet in Thimphu

ACHINTA BORAH\PTI

Thimphu (Bhutan), July 21: Home Minister P Chidambaram may hold a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on the sidelines of a SAARC conference here if Islamabad makes such a request.Both Chidambaram and Malik are scheduled to arrive here for the fourth conference of the More

Ghulam Hassan Mir bereaved

Srinagar, July 21: Haji Muhammad Abdullah Mir father of Agriculture Minister, Ghulam Hassan Mir, passed away on Thursday.Mir was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Hariwatnu, Tangmarg. Hundreds of people participated in his Namaz-e-Jinazah.Mir’s Chaharum according to family sources would More

Kulgam woman alleges gang-rape by soldiers

Victim Records Statement Before MoS Home, DGP; Case Filed Against Army

KHALID GUL/GKNN

Damhal Hanjipora (Kulgam), July 21: Protests erupted in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday after a woman was allegedly gang raped by army personnel. The victim recorded her statement before Minister of State for Home and Director General of Police who flew to the area after massive protests More

NC,Congress to take call on SAC revival today

Coalition Coordination Meeting

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, July 21: Coalition partners National Conference and Congress are meeting here on Friday to take a call on the revival of the premier anti-graft body—State Accountability Commission. The NC-Congress Coalition Coordination Committee is scheduled to meet here to discuss the manning of the anti More

Involve separatists in talks: Sri Sri

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, July 21: The Art of Living Foundation founder and spiritual leader, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday called for involvement of separatists in the talks for the resolution of Kashmir issue.“They (separatist leaders) are respectable and important persons,” Shankar told reporters after More

We changed right-wing mindset on Kashmir: Mufti

‘Present Govt Has Reversed Hard Work Done By PDP’

KHALID GUL

Kulgam, July 21: Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party Patron, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Thursday said that his party was instrumental in changing the mindset of the right-wing political parties of the country on the Kashmir issue.“Before we took over the reigns in 2002, no political More

Omar hits out at PDP

‘They Eliminated People Who Were Willing To Talk’

KHALID GUL

Qaimoh (Kulgam), July 21: Taking a dig at opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said that those who vow to struggle for resolution of Kashmir issue selectively eliminated people during their regime who were ready for talks.“It is an irony that the people More



  • Opinion

Urdu: the language that was

This poor language has suffered from all. From others and from those who claim to be its own. The beauty of Urdu is no more seen

COMMENT BY HASSAN ZAINAGIREE

At a time when Urdu language is disappearing from the signboards, bill-boards, name-plates, letter-heads; wilted down from compulsory status to optional door-mate indifference; banished from positions More


  • Op-Ed

Indus Water Treaty requires a re-look

ACROSS THE TABLE

POLITICAL ASPIRATION CAN WAIT, ECONOMIC ASPIRATION CANNOT. INDUS WATER TREATY IS AGAINST J&K’S ECONOMIC INTERESTS.MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE GHULAM HASSAN MIR IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NISSAR BHAT. EXCERPTS

 Agriculture is a vast sector, yet this has not shown a satisfactory growth in J&K over past many years. What has hindered its growth in J&K?See, in J&K we have agriculture potential. More



  • Letters

Time to create awareness on RTI

This refers to recent news “SIC to get Information Commissioners” (GK 15th July). The Jammu & Kashmir Government passed new version of RTI law (J&K RTI Act 2009) on March 20th 2009 and it took More


  • Friday Focus

Islam and the Postmodern Temperament

PROF G R MALIK

In its essence Islam shares something fundamental with all revealed religions and sacred traditions; indeed it is the final version and quintessence of all of them. Frithjoff Schuon has rightly observed More


  • Kashmir

Mir for economic empowerment of youth

GK NEWS NETWORK

Pattan July 21: Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today said the main focus of political endeavor should see the youth of J&K economically independent, politically empowered and socially More


  • Srinagar City

Encroachers eating up Koh-e-Maran

Locals fear land mafia involvement, heritage lovers aghast, admin sleeps

M HYDERI

Srinagar, July 21: At a time when the government claims to start heritage conservation on and around the Kohe-e-Mahan hill in the City, alleged encroachers have started "excavation" of the hillock which More



  • Jammu

NPP to mobilize public opinion against rehabilitation policy

Jammu: Terming the policy of resettlement of militants based in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) as ‘danger’ to the security of state, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today decided More


  • South Asia

Pak Navy inducts first squadron of indigenously made UAVs

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, July 21: Pakistan has developed and inducted its first squadron of indigenously made Naval unmanned spy planes to be used for maritime interdiction operations in coastal areas. The UAVs More


  • Business

'JK industry contributes 80 pc to power revenue'

Traders, entrepreneurs oppose power tariff hike proposal

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 21: The trade and industry bodies of J&K today strongly opposed the power tariff hike proposed by the government.  At a joint press conference in Jammu, the representatives of traders More


  • World

Sardar Attique denounces

Turabi endorses Geelani’s July 23 strike call

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, July 21: The outgoing prime minister of Pakistan Administered Kashmir and Muslim Conference president, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has voiced serious concern over the detention of Washington based More



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