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Saudi Disagrees to Normalising Ties with Israel without Palestinian Peace

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After a week-long silence over the UAE-Israel deal, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal said that the Kingdom was determined to remain committed about the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative with Israel and to not normalizing ties with Israel until Israel signs the internationally-recognised peace accord with the Palestinians. On Wednesday, during a visit to Berlin, Prince Faisal told reporters that “Peace must be achieved with the Palestinians”. Prince Faisal’s statements ruled out talks about Saudi following UAE’s footsteps until the Palestinian issue is resolved on the basis of international accords. Reiterating criticism of Israel, Price Faisal stated Israel’s annexation policies as “unilateral” and said that Israel constructing settlements in the ‘occupied’ West Bank was "il...

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School Building in Pulwama Turns into Hub of Drug Abuse

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Mir Irfan A private school building in Ruins amid the ongoing lockdown in Jammu Kashmir has become a hub of Drug Abuse in Pulwama District of South Kashmir. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, locals of Mugalpora in Pulwma said that KVGB Private school built in the area is nowadays witnessing massive crowds despite the Government having closed down the schools "to prevent the further of the ongoing global pandemic." They said that youth from all nearby areas throng the school which has become a safe heaven for drug addicts and all kind of "immoral activities." "The school was constructed a long time ago, but has been left incomplete since 2018, we asked officials for completion of the project but nobody has paid attention as of yet," a local youth told The Kashmiriyat. The school b...

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NC Holds Meeting For the First Time Post Abrogation of Article 370 Under Farooq Abdullah

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For the first time after the abrogation of Article 370 last year, the National Conference (NC) patron and incumbent parliamentarian, Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Thursday held a meeting with four of the party leaders who were also detained post the August 05, 2019 decision. Sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that four party leaders including NC’s General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, provincial president. Talking to KNO, Dr. Abdullah, who is also the former chief minister of erstwhile Jammu Kashmir State said that all the four party leaders have reached his residence and the meeting is underway. He said that the meeting of five more party leaders will be called tomorrow, adding that the meetings with the party leaders will continue in the coming days. Earlier on...

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Eight year old Girl Crushed to Death in Ganderbal

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Rayees Shah/ Shah Basit An eight year old girl crushed to death after a speeding truck hit by her in Ganewan area of Kangan in Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district. An Official speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that Adiya Bano daughter of Mohammad Anwar Paswal was hit by a speedy truck bearing registration number JK01A 2124 at Ganewan. She was critically injured in the mishap and was taken to the nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. A police officer said that a girl was hit by a truck which was on its way to Srinagar from Kargil. He said a case in this regard has been registered and further investigation has been initiated.

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Pune Observes Improvement in COVID-19 Recovery Rate

INDIA

With the continuous spike in coronavirus outbreak in India where more than 69,500 cases are being reported in 24 hours and the death toll has reached 53,866, Pune is one of the states where the rate of recovery is improving at large scale. With the appointment of new District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh, the recovery rate has been improving tremendously. Pune is well equipped to defeat COVID-19, said Deshmukh. With the onset of the pandemic in India, Pune has a high number of COVID cases but at the same time, it has been conducting the highest number of tests per day. In July, the rate of recovery in Pune was about 50% and now it has gone up to 75% unlike many other states of India. Deshmukh has credited the state’s health mechanism for improved recovery rate. He said that the fast...

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Police Arrests Youth in Jammu Kashmir For ‘Hurting Religious Sentiments’

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Mubashir Naik Days after the blasphemy remarks made by a Hindu priest in Reasi area of Jammu, triggering massive protests at many places in Jammu Kashmir, the Local Police has arrested a man for hurting the religious sentiments of another community. An official said that the police have arrested a young man in Batote for hurting religious sentiments on Social media, whom they identified as Mohammed Zahid Son of Abdul Rashid Rather, who is a resident of Champa in Batote area of Jammu Kashmir. The arrest was made after the young man posted objectionable comments on Facebook thereby hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community. A case under FIR no 48/2020 U/S 295-A/153-A/IPC registered at the police station in Batote and investigation is being taken up, the official ...

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Protest Held Against Blasphemy in Srinagar, Pattan

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Sajad Hameed Hundreds of persons on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in against the blasphemous comments in Srinagar and Pattan township of Baramulla district in the Kashmir valley Sources told The Kashmiriyat that people from various areas of Pattan rallied against the blasphemous remark by a Hindu priest over the last prophet of Islam. Shouting pro Islam slogans, scores of people in Pattan market and in Nihalpora Pattan, protested on Thursday morning, in the Kashmir valley which has seen a huge eruption after the blasphemous remark by a Reasi priest in Jammu Kashmir.buy flagyl Canada langleyrx.com/flagyl.html no prescription The protesters were disallowed to march ahead by the officials of the District administration an Jammu Kashmir Police after assuring them of taki...

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11 Injured, 4 Critical in Passenger Cab Road Accident in Poonch

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Mubashir Naik At least 11 persons were injured, four of them with serious injuries, after a passenger cab met with an accident in Behra village of Mendhar sub-division in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. An official told The Kashmiriyat that the accident took place today morning when a passenger cab (bearing registration number JK02AB 5463) skidded off the road, leaving eleven occupants injured. Block Medical Officer, Mendhar, Dr. Parvez Khan said that eleven injured were brought to the sub-district hospital, out of which four were referred to GMC Rajouri in serious condition.buy cipro online https://healthcoachmichelle.com/wp-content/themes/Divi/css/new/cipro.html no prescription Seven of the injured were identified as Muzamal Ahmed, Raza Mahid, ...

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Father-Daughter from Kulgam Quit Indian National Congress

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Danishwar Hameed Many Political workers and activists have resigned from their parties following a series of militant attacks in parts of Kashmir valley since the last month. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that a father and daughter from the Manigam area of South Kashmir's Kulgam district have resigned from Indian National Congress by taking on the Social media platforms. The resignation letter accessed by The Kashmiriyat reads “I Mohammad Yousuf Lone son of Abdul Aziz Lone and my daughter Daisy Jan of Manigam in Kulgam announce that we quit the Congress party and do not have any concern now with any political party." Pertinent to mention here is that Militants in the past few months have conducted a series of attacks against the activists of Bhartiya Janta Party and others, forc...

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Pakistan Minister Proposes ‘Power-Sharing’ on Kashmir as the Solution

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In a major shift from its stand on Kashmir, Pakistan has now proposed the Northern Ireland power-sharing arrangement as a solution to the Kashmir issue, pleading that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) could bring light at the end of the tunnel. Pakistan’s human rights minister Shireen Mazari who, of late, has been very critical of her country’s foreign policy on Kashmir, on Monday proposed the Northern Ireland model as a possible solution to what she called the “Kashmir dispute”. She was speaking at a webinar organised by Islamabad Policy Institute, a prominent think tank of Pakistan. She proposed “pursuing the model of the GFA in 1998, which brought together all parties to the conflict in Northern Ireland and ended decades of violence as a possible approach to resolving the Kashmir di...