Congress leader and joint candidate of the Congress-National Conference alliance for south Kashmir’s Anantnag parliamentary seat, G A Mir threatened to withdraw from the elections in case the present government is not dismissed and Governor’s rule is not imposed in the state. Mir on Monday had opposed the deferment of the by-poll in Anantnag parliamentary […]
Pakistan is a peace loving country but this should not be seen as a sign of weakness, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday. “Cooperation rather than conflict and shared prosperity instead of suspicion are the hallmark of our policy,” a private news channel quoted Sharif as saying. He was addressing cadets at the Asghar […]
Former chief minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has said that New Delhi could lose Kashmir valley if it doesn’t find a political solution to the dispute. In an interview with India Today on Monday evening, Abdullah said the violence and loss of lives during the Srinagar by-poll “are a tragedy and a failure […]
Police has recovered 400 kgs of poppy husk from a truck and arrested two persons on Jammu- Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir. The truck was intercepted at a check point on Jammu- Srinagar highway in Banihal belt of Ramban district by the police and a search of the truck was conducted last evening, a […]
Taking a serious view of the continued snapping of internet broadband to the media, Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) on Tuesday said the objective of the ban is aimed at subverting an institution and preventing it from recording the history of the most crucial period. Snapping of the internet services has, off late, become more frequent. […]
Secretary-General of United Nations, Antonio Guterres has urged India and Pakistan to solve the Kashmir issue through dialogue, reports said today. The spokesperson of the Secretary General has also dismissed claims that UN chief was being reluctant to address the Kashmir issue. “I don’t brush it [Kashmir issue] off. I don’t think the Secretary General […]
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) J&K, Shantmanu, today reviewed the arrangements put in place for repolling at 38 polling stations in district Budgam of Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency scheduled to be held on 13 April 2017. District Election Officer (DEO) Budgam, SSP Budgam and other concerned were present at the meeting. The CEO said adequate security will […]
There will be no shutdown on Wednesday, joint resistance leadership said. In a statement issued here, the leadership withdrew the shutdown call issued for south Kashmir after the deferment of Anantnag bypoll. The leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik had earlier called for shutdown in south Kashmir areas where polling […]
ECI has decided to defer the polls, but the elections will be held on 38 polling stations on Srinagar parliamentary seat, where the elections were disrupted by the protesting youth, on April 13.
SHABIR AHMAD/ MUSHTAQ-UL-ISLAM PULWAMA: Police has arrested a truck driver on charges of raping and murdering a girl who had been missing since last month. Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Chadoora area of Budgam district, was arrested for the murder of 20-year old Muneera Akhter , a resident of Wangam Niwa village here. The […]