Month: March 2019

March 31 Following specific inputs about Militant movement, The Government Forces on Sunday afternoon launched Cordon and Search operation (CASO) in Panzoo area of Verinag in South Kashmir's  Islamabad (anantnag) District. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that a search operation has been launched 19 Rastriya Rifles, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF in Panzoo area of Verinag. All the entry and exit points of the area have been sealed on Sunday afternoon. A door to door search operation has begun, Locals told The Kashmiriyat. Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched as an Anti Militancy operation on May 2, 2017 amid a rise in the local recruitment into Militant groups in the Kashmir valley. The Forces jointly conduct search operations in a specific area, locking down the ...

March 31 The Jammu Kashmir Police has booked former Sessions Judge of Islamabad (anantnag) and national conference leader  for inciting violence against Forest Department. In a video available to The Kashmiriyat, the former Judge Syed Tawqeer Ahmed, while addressing a rally in Kokernag area of district told the people that if the forest department closes the roads of the public, cut down their hands. In this regard, the Police has filed an FIR number 7/19 against him at Police Station Larnoo. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat Syed Tawqeer said that the voice in the audio is not his, "They have dubbed the video, it is not my voice," he said. He said that in the hour of technology nothing is impossible, "Some people within the political ranks are trying to de-legitimize me, all i sa...

March 30 Waris Shah/ Sheikh Nadeem A 15 year old boy on Saturday afternoon died after falling down from an incomplete bridge in Kokernag area of South Kashmir's Islambad (Anantnag) district. The boy identified as Nazir Ahmad Bimla Son of Fareed Ahmad Bimla, a resident of Magam , Sona Brari, Kokernag drowned in Nullah Brengi today evening after falling down from a bridge he was walking on, Locals told The Kashmiriyat. His dead body was recovered from Brengi river near Khalhar/ Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that the boy was walking on the incomplete bridge over the Nullah with his father when he lost balance and slipped in to Nullah. A local resident Mohammad Yousuf Naikoo told The Kashmiriyat that the work was started on the bridge in 2011 but latter the contractor stopped the w...