Friday Fear: Kashmir Gagged

PROTESTS REPORTED FROM ACROSS VALLEY; POLICE POST TORCHED IN BANDIPORA; PRAYERS HELD FOR GURU

SHABIR IBN YUSUF/SUHAIL AJMAL

Srinagar/Bandipora, Feb 15: Government Friday imposed strict curfew across the valley to foil protests against the hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru. However, defying the clampdown, protesters took to streets at several places demanding the body of Guru, who was hanged and buried in New Delhi’s Tihar More

Omar defends clampdown

Srinagar, Feb 15: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has defended imposition of curfew in the Valley saying restrictions would not have been needed if “no one tried to create trouble” after the hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru.“Even these restrictions would not have been necessary if we didn’t have amongst More

PROTESTS ROCK CHENAB VALLEY

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 15: Normal life across Chenab valley remained disrupted Friday as all the major towns across the region observed shutdown to protest hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru.While Chenab region observed bandh and witnessed protests, large number of people offered prayers in absentia for Afzal More

HURRIYAT (G) EXTENDS STRIKE BY TWO DAYS

‘NO SHUTDOWN FROM MONDAY’

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Feb 15: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani Friday extended strike call by two days against the arrest of youth and strict curfew in the valley in the wake of Afzal Guru’s hanging. He also said there would be no strike from February 18 but the Hurriyat will follow one-point More

Afzal denied opportunity to challenge rejection of mercy plea: Lawyer

Rajiv Gandhi’s Killers Informed 28 Days Before Hanging, Got Court Stay; Case Still In SC

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Feb 15: Afzal Guru’s counsel ND Pancholi Friday said that Guru was denied opportunity to challenge the rejection of his mercy petition by keeping him and his counsels in dark over the rejection of the petition.“As per the rules, Afzal, his wife and his counsels should have been communicated More

You erred on Guru: Academics tell Pranab

New Delhi, Feb 15: Over 200 academics, writers, artists and filmmakers have written to President Pranab Mukherjee saying that he erred over the hanging of Afzal Guru and expressed deep “anguish and outrage”.In the letter submitted to the president Wednesday, they said: “We believe that you made More

Execution has outraged collective conscience: JUH

‘Indian Muslims Feel Let Down By Double-Standards, Discrimination’

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Feb 15: Strongly condemning the “secret execution” of Muhammad Afzal Guru, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) has said “the collective conscience” of the society has been outraged over the manner in which execution was carried out. He said the Indian Muslims have been let down the way Guru execution More

Police on Valley-wide arrest spree

Around 200 Youth Rounded Up

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Feb 15: Police have rounded up around 200 youth across the valley since Saturday creating panic among the people especially the youth who have started going into hiding following the widespread police raids.Most of the youth have been arrested in Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama, Budgam More

‘Mirwaiz not allowed to offer prayers’

Srinagar, Feb 15: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq, who is currently under house arrest in Delhi, was not allowed to offer Friday prayers today.“The Muslims in Kashmir were barred from offering Friday prayers at Central Jamia Masjid Srinagar, Khankahs, Budgam Imambara More

Rains, snow lash Valley

Temperature Dips

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Feb 15: The upper reaches of Kashmir got fresh snowfall while the plains were lashed by rains, bringing down the day temperature across the Valley by couple of degrees.Kupwara town and Gulmarg resort in north Kashmir and Pahalgam in south Kashmir witnessed snowfall on Thursday night More

No curfew today: DGP

Srinagar, Feb 15: Declaring that there will be no curfew on Saturday, Director General Police, Ashok Prasad Friday said that overall situation in the Valley is under control. “Baring sporadic incidents, situation is the valley remained peaceful and we have decided not to impose curfew or restrictions More

Er Rashid released

Srinagar, Feb 15: Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Prasad on Friday said that MLA Langate was released this evening.        “He has already left for his home,” More

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SAR Geelani leads Kashmiri students’ protest in Delhi

AFZAL HANGING

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 15: Hundreds of Kashmiri students studying in Delhi on Friday held a protest against the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail. The protests march coincided with the Eidgah Challo call given More

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