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Jul12018 by News DeskNo Comments

Kashmir- Medical Officer Reaches Hospital to Save Youth Hit With Bullets, Finds His Son’s Dead Body

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Jahangeer Ganie Moments before he breathed his last, Faizan asked his friends to give his bloodsoaked shoes to his mother. His body was pierced by three bullets, one on the abdomen, two more in the chest and rib respectively. Son of a medical officer on duty at the same hospital where Faizan was treated after being hit with three bullets, he had told his father, "I will come back after Friday prayers, then we will have our lunch together." It was a normal wake-up call on a Friday morning on 29 June for Faizan, however, he chose to remain in the bed for a little longer on a rainy morning. He did not go to school, in fact, he spent his morning at his home in Pulwama town. At noon, he left for Friday prayers. As he reached the mosque, a few kilometers away the government forces h...

Jun302018 by News DeskNo Comments

Bashir Lashkar Encounter- An Eyewitness Account

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June 30 News spread in the wee hours of the morning on 01 July that the famous commander of LeT, Bashir Ahmed Wani (Lashkar) alias Abu Ukasha had been trapped in the Breenti area of Southern Kashmir’s Islamabad (Anantnag) district. People in droves of dozens and hundreds gathered around the encounter site trying to help the militants escape. In the first attempt one lady named Tahira wife of Abdul Rashid Chopan was the closest to the house where Bashir was trapped. She covered the face of Bashir with her scarf to give a chance to the militant to escape. Hundreds of others gathered close to the house, an army men tried to hit her with the gun, she in self defence hit the army man with a wooden stick she was carrying. People approached closer and the army fired indiscriminately at the ...

Jun192018 by News DeskNo Comments

Aijaz had gone to buy Food for his Two Daughters when he was shot dead

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June 19 Qazi Shibli The Nowpora Village of South Kashmir's Kulgam District is in mourning as hundreds of teraful eyes have gathered here to bid farewell to Aijaz Ahmad Bhat who was killed in Army firing yesterday. Government Forces said that the youth threw stones on them and provoked them to fire, however the civilians in the area say not a single stone stone was thrown and Aijaz who was not a part of the crowd who hooted at the army was target fired. Aiman and Deebe besides the dead body of their father/ Zaffar Dar "Where is my father? Why has he not come home yet, I miss him," i heard the Aiman, 2 year old daughter of Aijaz Shouting, while Deeba, another 4 year old daughter is waiting silently, they both have been told that Aijaz has left for work and he will return soon....

May62018 by News DeskNo Comments

Nobody Informed Army, Our Phone Call was Traced, Saddam told Family in the last call

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May 06 I visited the house of Heff Shermal in Shopian the last month to meet the father of Saddam Padder; who suspiciously looked at me and fired a series of questions, who are you? Which Agency do you work for* *Ghulam Mohuddin Padder upon hearing that I am a journalist looked amazed. It was the first that some journalist had come to meet him. Lying in the corner of his one story house Ghulam Mohuddin Padder recited the ordeal of how his son Saddam up in Heff Shermal area of Shopian. “He was very active and a naughty child.” “He would ask for my permission to go to school, later when I went to cut wood in the fields, I would see him at a distance,” his father who is a wood cutter and an orchardist remembers. ‘‘Along with Waseem Shah (another local Militant), the Government Forces...

May22018 by News DeskNo Comments

“I am proud that My Son Died as a Martyr”- Says Father of Sameer Tiger

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May 02 Jahangeer Ganie On Tuesday, Sameer Bhat alias tiger became the thirteenth militant of Drabgam village of South Kashmir's since 90,s who was laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard Drabgam. His family has no regrets and feels proud of his martyrdom. He was killed along with his associate in his native village on Monday afternoon. Class 8th pass, good looking, and native of Drabgam of Rajpora, Sameer joined militant ranks few months before the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani. "After passing his class 8th examinations, Sameer started working in a bakery shop at Pulwama and was several times arrested by security forces over stone Pelting charges," says Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, father of Sameer Bhat alias tiger. Before joining ranks he worked as an over-ground worker to provide logistical ...

Apr202018 by News DeskNo Comments

“Ratt Pitt” Brigade of Kashmir

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(Representational Art) Tawseef Nazir “Ratt Pitt” is a Kashmiri word Symbolic to the nation who only talk, and then talk again and again and then again and again. Indeed all they do is, talk and talk more and in a more specific nomenclature- They are no more than Social Media Comrades- they may come in any disguise, sometimes of an activist as columnists, Reporters, and even supporters of certain causes and Nations, but all they do is talk and talk again and again and again. Other than the fact that they have an exaggerated sagacity of self importance, they are commonly riveted in fantasies of authority, triumph, splendor or vividness; they have irrational prospect of other people, i.e. that everybody’s Moral Right is to unthinkingly obey them. Apart from the fact that they crave con...

Apr32018 by News DeskNo Comments

Few Hours Before the Nikah of His Sister, Rouf Was Killed in an Encounter

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March 31 Rouf Bashir Khanday was 20, when he was shot dead by a Joint team of 19RR, SOG of Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF in Dialgam area of South Kashmir on the intervening night of 31st March and 1st of April. Rouf hails from Dehruna village of Islamabad (Anantnag) District in South Kashmir which was once a nucleus of Pro Pakistan Militants in early 90’s. Last year a civilian named Mudasir Ahmed Chopan was killed in the village about 8 Kilometers distant from the District headquarters of Islamabad (Anantnag). Post the Killing of Burhan Wani on 8th July in South Kashmir around 230 Local Boys have picked up arms. Security Agencies feel there is a difference between present day militants and those of the early 1990s. The ideological conviction of the present lot is stronger than tha...

Apr12018 by News DeskNo Comments

Bloodbath in Kashmir- “He was Sent inside the house by Army, Then Shot from Behind”

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Thousands of people including women gathered early morning on Sunday to bid farewell to the ‘martyr’ at his funeral. Women later marched towards his house singing songs of bravery, “Qoum Ke Shaheedo, Goor Goor Karyo” (Farewell oh martyr of the motherland). South Kashmir has turned into a hotbed of Militancy post the killing of Burhan Wani on 08 July 2016. Security Agencies have dotted their eyes over the developments in this part of Kashmir. Massive funerals have become a part of Kashmir's political discourse, however, there have been attempts to bar the funerals at several places as Government agencies believe that the funerals instigate 'Anti National sentiments.' The Kashmir valley witnessed a bloody Sunday on 01 April when 13 Militants and 4 Civilians were shot dead in South Kash...

Mar62018 by News DeskNo Comments

Kashmir bleeds yet again- 4 Civilians shot in ‘cold blood’, Say families; Forces say were OGWs

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The situation in the volatile district of South Kashmir’s Shopian remained tense after two more bodies were recovered on Monday morning, raising the death toll in last night’s firing incident to six. “Two more bodies were recovered in Shopian district this morning,” a police spokesperson said. Police in its statement said that the body of another militant, identified as Ashiq Hussain Bhat of Lashkar-e-Taiba, seven kilometers from Pahnoo where the Army had fired upon two vehicles when ‘they tried to flee from a Mobile Vehicle Check Post’. They also fired on the Army and policemen, officials said. Bhat was a resident of Rakh Karpan. Besides this, body of a civilian — Gowhar Ahmed Lone of Chitragam in Shopian — was recovered from another vehicle near the firing incident. Gowhar...

Aug62017 by Qazi ShibliNo Comments

Had I Seven Sons, I would Sacrifice them all for Kashmir Cause- Mother of Yawar Nisar

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August 05 At the entrance of the house, three young boys barely 18 are trying to feed rabbits, that run to another side of the cage. The Rabbits do not recognize them; they need the old face which fed them. “They have not eaten anything from the past 20 days, the boy who used to feed them is, gone,” says one of the boys. But Yawar (the old face) has traveled far beyond their imagination and can feed them no more. Close to his house, Hundreds of people have gathered to pay tributes to the slain militant, Yawar Nisar, the 19-year-old militant who had joined militants on the 18th day of July this year. Women in a separate tent are mourning the death, while men in the separate tent are singing the tales of the bravery of Yawar. Yawar had gone missing on 18 July 2017 after which his pa...