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Mosque in Australia Broken into, Vandalized During Night

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April 02 In yet another apparent incident of Islamophobia unknown people broke into the Logan mosque in Queesnland Australia and vandalised the mosque property during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. Reports suggest that the attack happened around midnight after a group of men barged into the mosque and vandalized the mosque property including the Qurans placed inside the mosque, they also broke glasses and thrashed window panes of the mosque. ALSO READ: 5 Mosques Attacked with Sledgehammers in UK The mosque is often in news as it has remained a centre of religious co existence and the Muslims in mosque have always celebrated the oneness and unity of Australia. The mosque in Logan City marks Australia Day every year on 26 and 27th January in the only way they know h...

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Forces Launch Massive Search Operations in Bandipora Area

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April 02 Following specific inputs about Militant movement, The Government Forces on Tuesday afternoon launched Cordon and Search operation (CASO) in Saderkot area of North Kashmir's Bandipora District. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that a search operation has been launched 52 Rastriya Rifles, Jammu Kashmir Police and 92 BN of CRPF in the Saderkot Balat area. All the entry and exit points of the area have been sealed on Tuesday 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 area virtua...

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Despite Criticism from Modi, BJP, Omar Says Prime Minister and President Will be Reinstated in Kashmir

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April 02 Sajad Hameed Despite facing criticism from the Indian Prime Minister and the top brass of India's Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Omar Abdullah on Tuesday while addressing a rally in Pattan area of North Kashmir said that he stands by his statement. On Monday, Omar Abdullah, the former chief Minister and the Vice president of National Conference stoked a controversy when he said that his party would bring back the demand of “separate Prime Minister and President of Kashmir.buy albuterol generic buyinfoblo.com/albuterol.html over the counter " The statement was slammed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley among other BJP leaders, who questioned the NC-ally Congress to “come clean on its stand” on the issue, many in the congress questioned the BJPs alliance with...

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Pro Independence, Pro Zakir Musa Slogans Rock Kashmir College as Farooq Abdullah Visits Area

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April 02 "Musa Musa, Zakir Musa," slogans welcomed the National Conference president in the Government Degree College of Ganderbal on Tuesday as he visited the area to address a convention of Party workers in Ganderbal. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that girls and boys in large numbers studying in the college gathered in the college campus shouting pro independence, Pro Pakistan and Anti India slogans as soon as Farooq Abdullah entered inside the area. The party President and NC candidate for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat Dr. Farooq Abdullah was here with Ali Mohammed Sagar, Mustafa Kamaal and other leaders of the party, however the students did not give a warm welcome to the party members, in fact raised slogans against India as soon as the party members entered into the campus. ...

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53 People Attend BJPs ‘Grand Rally’ in Kashmir’s Sopore

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April 02 Shabir Khan Two days after, Bhartiya Janta Party had its embarrassing moment on Sunday Rally in Rohama area of Rafiabad when less than eighty people visited the rally, BJP faced yet another embarrassment as less nearly 55 people attended its 'Grand Rally' in Watlab area of North Kashmir's Sopore Sources informed The Kashmiriyat that BJP on Tuesday had called for a rally in the Watlab area wherein, the BJP state General Secretary, Ashok Koul, Mohammed Maqbool War, who is contesting the North Kashmir seat from Baramulla Lok Sabha Seat addressed the people. Ashok Koul addressing these 53 people said that Omar Abdullah must take back his words and leave the dream of having a pre-53 position. "They are showing empty dreams to Kashmiris," Ashok Koul in his key note address s...

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To Make Modi Rally Successful in Bihar, Family of CRPF Soldier Not Informed about his Death in Kashmir

INDIA

April 02 As Election fever grips India, politicians across party lines have resorted to politicking of almost every issue, from the death of soldiers to the alleged air strikes in Pakistan's Balakot, India goes to polls in seven phases, starting 11 April with the counting scheduled for 23 May. On March 01, Pintu Singh, a soldier of Central Reserve Police Force was killed during an encounter in Kupwara District of North Kashmir, however the news of his death was not revealed to his family, Bihar Live reported. ALSO READ: 53 People Attend BJPs ‘Grand Rally’ in Kashmir’s Sopore On the same day, Bhartiya Janta Party had announced that the March 3 rally would be the grandest rally of the party to be organized in Patna, the rally was later addressed by the Indian Prime Minister, Nare...

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The Only Truth About Recent Air Strikes is Pakistan Shot Down Two Indian Planes

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April 02 Pakistan’s military on Monday said Delhi cannot deny that the PAF warplanes shot down two IAF aircraft in the February 27 air battle over Kashmir. It also denounced India’s claims of shooting down a Pakistani F-16. “The event of February 27 is part of history now. No Pakistani F-16 was hit by the Indian Air Force (IAF),” Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement referencing the Indian claims, Dawn reported. “As regard PAF action for strikes across the LoC [Line of Control], it was done by JF-17 from within Pakistan airspace. Later when two Indian jets crossed the LoC, they were shot down by PAF.” The military’s media wing added that whether F-16 or JF-17, the kind of aircraft the PAF used to shoot down two Indian jets is ‘immaterial’. “Even if F-16 ...

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Over 200 Writers Including Arundhati Roy Appeal India to Defeat BJP

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April 02 Prominent Writers including Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, Amitabh Ghosh, Nayantara Sahgal, Jeet Thayil, Romila Thapar and Vivek Shanbhag have signed a joint petition against the politics of hate and have urged voters to defeat BJP in upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In a joint statement by at least 200 writers, which was posted on the website of Indian Cultural Forum, read, “The upcoming election finds our country at the crossroads. Our Constitution guarantees all its citizens equal rights, the freedom to eat, pray and live as they choose, freedom of expression and the right to dissent. But in the last few years, we have seen citizens being lynched or assaulted or discriminated against because of their community, caste, gender, or the region they come from." “Hate politics h...

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Highway Horror Continues in Kashmir- Forces Thrash Students including Minor Girl, Protests Erupt

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April 02 Protests broke out on Srinagar-Jammu highway at Lethpora after forces allegedly didn’t allow the school buses and thrashed many students, eywtinesses said. An eyewitness told The Kashmiriyat that a school bus belonging to an Awantipora High school was disallowed from moving ahead despite an official order by the authorities that school buses and ambulances shall be allowed to move during the convoy. Pertinently, after the February 14 attack at Lethpora central government issued a notice that disallowed any traffic movement during the army convoy. ALSO READ: Army Blocks Srinagar Highway, Thrashes Pulwama Residents When the students protested against their bus not being allowed to move ahead, the CRPF men deployed thrashed the many students including a minor girl. ...

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Four Killed in Pakistan as India and Pakistan Exchange Fire in Kashmir

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April 02 Three Pakistan army troopers and one civilian and five other civilians injured have been killed in alleged ceasefire violation by Indian troops along the Line of Control in Rakhchakri and Rawalakot Sectors, Pakistan said on Tuesday Pakistan foreign Office Spokesperson tweeted that “Indian troops resorted to unprovoked fire in Rakhchakri, Rawalakot Sector along Line of Control (LOC).” He said that three army personnel were killed. “Subedar Muhammad Riyaz, Lance Havaldar Aziz Ullah and Sepoy Shahid Mansib embraced Shahadat, while one soldier got injured.” He said that the Pakistan army responded effectively.