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April 20, 2018 No Responses

Student protests continue across Kashmir, Afridi asks students not to shun studies

The students continued protests across the Valley against the rape and murder of 8-year-old nomad girl in Kathua despite higher secondary schools and colleges remaining closed. The students took to roads in Ajas, Mantrigam, and Sumbal areas in Bandipora district...

April 13, 2018 No Responses

PDP, BJP partners in crime, Kashmiris may have to pay with blood: Tassaduq Mufti

Although Mufti is not the party’s official spokesman, his views carry weight because besides being a minister in the PDP-BJP government, he is also son of the late PDP patron and former CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and brother of Chief...

April 12, 2018 No Responses

Four Civilians die, Two battling for life saving rebels in Kulgam

When the sound of a few gunshots came out of the noise of rains beating tin roofs of the Khudwani houses late on Tuesday evening, it residents, about to go to sleep, stood still as the shooting grew more steady...

April 10, 2018 No Responses

Mehbooba meets Modi, seeks help to end violence in valley

Three days after appealing to the country’s leadership to listen to the voices of pain from the state, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. She apprised him about the overall situation...

April 7, 2018 No Responses

Kashmir Shuts to protest Shopian killings, Solidarity Day observed across Pakistan

A complete shutdown was observed across Kashmir while youth continued to engage in clashes with forces through the day in parts of Valley in protest to the killings in Shopian last Sunday in which 13 militants and 4 civilians were...

April 6, 2018 No Responses

Student protests rock valley, Clashes in four colleges over Shopian killings

Eight students injured in Srinagar Girl students resort to stone pelting in city centre Protesters burn police picket Kashmir University pupils boycott classes Massive protests rocked Kashmir valley on Thursday as students took to streets and clashed with th...

April 2, 2018 No Responses

Bloody Sunday: 12 Militants, 4 Civilians, 3 Troopers killed, 200 Injured in South Kashmir

54 hit by bullets, 38 receive pellet injuries Thousands of people attend funeral prayers of slain militants At least twelve militants, three troopers and four civilians were killed in separate gunfights between militants and forces in South Kashmir on Sunday,....

March 28, 2018 No Responses

J&K has been left alone by the Country: Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti said Jammu and Kashmir is the crown of the country but in the past few years it has lost its sheen. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday the state has been left alone by...

March 26, 2018 No Responses

Hurriyat Chief, Ashraf Sehrai’s son joins Hizb, won’t appeal for his return: Family

Days after the new Hurriyat chief called ISIS ideology ‘venomous’ and anti-Kashmir, his son went missing Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief decides not to pursue police complaint Junaid Ashraf, son of the newly elected chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad...

March 20, 2018 No Responses

Get J&K out of bloodbath, Mehbooba urges Modi

Meets shelling victims in Balakote sector Announces construction of bunkers Hands over relief cheques Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday visited the Bhimber Gali area in Balakote sector to console the family, who lost five of its members in the...