Month: April 2019

April 29 Amid clashes and a low voter turnout in the South Kashmir's Kulgam district on Monday, seven areas of Kulgam district witnessed zero percent polling. The Wanpora, Shamsipora, Turk Tachloo, Khudwani, Bugam areas of Kulgam district witnessed a zero percent polling out of a total of 10151 total voters. In Shamsipora out of a total of 1578 voters, zero turned out for polling, Election officials informed The Kashmiriyat. Similarly they said zero votes were polled in Wanpora out of a total of 1606 voters. In Turk Tachloo, zero votes were cast out of 967 total voters. in Khudwani out of the total of 2562 voters in four polling booths, zero votes were polled. 176 votes were polled in Sofigund area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district out of the total of 1236 total voter...

April 29 Amid a thick security blanket, the voting for the Kulgam District has closed at 4 PM with expectedly low turnout, which remained at 10.2 percent. The Kashmiriyat reporters throughout the day provided you live updates and coverage of the major happenings including hourly updates of the polling percentage. A thick security blanket was laid around the entire district as 30,000 additional troopers have been deployed for the volatile South Kashmir- Pulwama, Islamabad (Anantnag), Shopian and Kulgam. Clashes also erupted at several places including Quimoh, Kujjar, Khudwani, where four youth were injured in Kujar area of Kulgam.buy lasix online gaetzpharmacy.com/lasix.html no prescription The district has a total of four assembly segments which went to polls today, Kulgam,...

April 29 Police today claimed to have busted a Jaish-e-Muhamad militant module involved in throwing grenades at security forces and planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by arresting four militants. The police in a statement said that Awantipora Police arrested four persons involved in various militant activities inn Tral and Awantipora area. "One Murtaza of Amlar Tral was arrested on specific input and 01 Chinese Pistol with 02 Magazines and 08 Pistol rounds were recovered from his possession. Murtaza along with another person Aqib has came in contact with JeM militants operating in Tral/Awantipora area headed by one Khalid Bhai (Foreign militant)," the statement said. It said the duo has been involved in arranging transport and logistics for the said group of JeM milit...

April 29 Danish Sofi Five youth have been injured as forces fired tear smoke shells and pellets at the youth who were holding protests against the elections in South Kashmir's Kulgam area. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that five youth have sustained pellet injuries during intense clashes that erupted in Kujjar area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district. They said that two of them have been shifted to SMHS hospital while three are being treated in District Hospital Anantnag. Hospital Sources in DH Islamabad (anantnag) confirmed the identity of the youth as Khalid Ahmad, He has sustained pellet injuries on his right eye. Waseem Ahmad has suffered injury on his eye, Rasik has sustained pallet injuries on his whole body. Shakir and Zahid who has sustained pallet injuries in th...

April 29 One vote has been polled out of 2504 total votes in  the Uranhall area of Hom Shalibugh assembly segment of the Kulgam district in South Kashmir till 12 noon. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that out of 1059 votes in Uranhall-1 polling booth one vote has been cast, while in Uranhall-B, zero votes have been polled out of 768 and similarly in Uranhall C, zero votes have been cast out of total 768 votes. Meanwhile intense clashes also erupted in several areas of the district including Bugam, Khudwani, Redwani, Quimoh and other areas. The polling percentage recorded till 11 am was 3.69 Percent, Kulgam assembly segment was at the lowest at 0.8% while Noorabad  was the highest as 9.1% people cast their votes. Out of 3444 electors eligible for vote at five polling station i...