JK set to legalize ‘civil militia’

Police Bill-2013 Provides For Legal Cover To Infamous VDCs; Legal Experts, Politicians Smell Rat

LAWLESSNESS ON CARDS?

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Feb 24: What has sparked off concern among people and political observers in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government is all set to provide a legal cover to the infamous Village Defence Committees (VDCs) if the Police Bill-2013 is tabled in its present form in the upcoming session of the More

NC creating Ikhwan-State: PDP

Mehbooba Opposes Bill In Present Form

Srinagar, Feb 24: Describing the proposed Police Bill as an attempt to “institutionalize the dreaded Ikhwan culture” in the State, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday said it would strongly oppose passage of the Bill in its present form.  In a statement issued here, the party president More

RATANPURI DOES IT AGAIN

NC’s Member Parliament Calls On Geelani; ‘Separatist Leader’s Confinement Illegal, Sheikh Was Jailed For 22 Yrs For Same Cause’

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Feb 24: Senior National Conference leader and Member Parliament Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri Sunday threw up a surprise by calling on the veteran separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani at his New Delhi residence. After the meeting from a distance, Ratanpuri said the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman More

Afzal's body demand: Separatists meet to chalk out ‘joint strategy’

Members From Hurriyat Factions, JKLF, DeM Discuss Issue At Undisclosed Location In Srinagar

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Feb 24: In a significant development, members of both factions of Hurriyat Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Dukhtaran-e-Milat Sunday met at an unknown place in Srinagar to “devise a joint strategy” on seeking the return of Afzal Guru’s body from Government of India.
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Security Grid ‘Against’ Return Of Body

DGP, Home Secretary Tightlipped

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Feb 24: With voices favoring return of Afzal Guru’s body to his family growing louder within and outside Jammu and Kashmir, the security grid in the State is understood to be vehemently against any such move, citing “eruption of protests in Kashmir.” According to informed sources More

Srinagar-Jammu highway opens

Stranded Vehicles Cleared

Traffic From Srinagar To Jammu Today

AAQIB ASHRAF

Srinagar, Feb 24: After two days of its closure due to heavy snowfall, the Srinagar-Jammu highway—the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the world—opened for vehicular traffic on Sunday morning, leading to clearance of at least 1000 stranded vehicles. “Normal traffic flow from More

JK to ‘overhaul’ higher education

Govt Appoints Prof Nisar Ali As Advisor; Post Created In Consultation With CM

SPOTLIGHT

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Feb 24: Realizing the need to address the “mess” in J&K’s higher education sector, the state government has appointed noted economist Prof Nisar Ali as Advisor (Higher Education) to “streamline and overhaul ways of teaching-learning by augmenting infrastructure and introducing a slew More

NC Sarpanch shot dead in Baramulla

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Feb 24: Unidentified militants shot dead a ruling National Conference Sarpanch in Kalantra village of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Sunday evening, police said.Police sources said the militants shot dead the Sarpanch Javed Ahmad Wani son of Bashir Ahmad Wani outside his home More

Sehrai arrested, shifted to Central Jail

Srinagar, Feb 24: Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, General Secretary of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat was arrested on Sunday and later shifted to Central Jail Srinagar.Sources said contingents of Police Sunday afternoon cordoned off Sehrai’s residence. “He was bundled in a police gypsy and straight way taken to Central More

Ahmad Kashmiri bereaved

Srinagar: Abdul Ahad Reshi, father of Ahmad Kashmiri passed away on Saturday evening.  74-year old Reshi, breathed his last after brief spell of illness, at his house Chanapora Tangmarg. People from More

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Police harassing Muslim youth: CLMC

HYDERABAD BLASTS

Hyderabad, Feb 24: Hyderabad based Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) on Sunday said that it is continuously receiving the information about the illegal arrest and detention of Muslim youth from More

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