September 2020 - Page 22 of 43

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Militant Module Busted in Ganderbal, Three Local Youth Arrested, Says Police

REGIONAL

Shah Basit/ Rayees Shah The Jammu Kashmir Police in Ganderbal on Tuesday claimed to have busted a Militant module in Ganderbal district and arrested three youth. An official told The Kashmiriyat that on a reliable information that a module comprising of three youth namely Arshid Ahmad Khan from Wayil wuder Gutlibagh, Majid Rasool Rather, a resident of Beehama Ganderbal and Mohd Asif Najar of Beehama Ganderbal have been arrested in connection with Militant links. He said that the trio had come in contact with Pakistan based Kashmiri Militant Fayaz Khan, a resident of Chanhar Gutlibagh who has tasked them to take up Militant activities in the area. The forces receiving this input launched a search operation during the intervening night of 14/15 September and all three local you...

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Sopore’s Naseem Bagh Turned into Dust-bin- Locals Demand Official Intervention

REGIONAL

Shabir Khan The Locals of Naseem Bagh area in Chankan of Sopore township in North Kashmir's Baramulla on Tuesday complaining of official apathy said that their area has been turned into a waste disposal ground. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat the locals said that the Sopore's Municipal corporation has been disposing off all the waste near the Jhelum bank in the area causing serious threats to the river and the local populace. Complaining of official apathy, a local said that they have approached the office of Municipal corporation several times in the past two years, however the officials have turned a deaf ear to their plea demanding removal of waste from their area. 'Our children are facing breathing problems and the disposal is exposing the children as well as adults to serious...

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10,000 Indians, 30 Politicians from Jammu Kashmir under Chinese Surveillance

INTERNATIONAL

China has reportedly hatched a major conspiracy against India as It is spying on over 10,000 eminent Indians, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind. As per an Indian Express report, China is spying on many union ministers and leaders of the opposition, in the wake of an an aggressive face-off with India at locations along the Line of Actual control in ladakh. The report reads that China has been spying on almost 30 prominent leaders, officers and bureaucrats from Kashmir Valley and Ladakh, the list includes state Congress President Ghulam Ahmad Mir; former Union Minister Saifuddin Soz, Karan Singh, son of Hari Singh, the last king of the princely state of Jammu Kashmir and various prominent leaders from National Confrence and PDP. China, as per the ...

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Mother, Her Two Daughters Injured After Being Attacked by Dog in Sopore

REGIONAL

Shabir Khan Four persons including a woman and her two daughters were injured by stray dogs in Boitengoo area of Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday evening. Locals from Boitengoo told The Kashmiriyat that a lady was attacked by stray dogs when she was walking along with her two daughters in the area on Monday evening. They sustained injuries in the attack and were immediately shifted to the nearby Soppore Hospital for treatment. Officials at the Sopore Hospital upon being contacted by The Kashmiriyat said that the injured persons were provided first aid.

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Kashmir’s Pulwama Soon to be the Pencil District of India

PULWAMA

Pulwama is known for being a militancy hotbed, but not a lot of people know that this district is soon to be called the pencil district of the country because it produces more than 70 per cent slats for the making pencils in the country "Before the 90's the companies used to get the wood from China, Germany etc. Then they started taking the wood from here. Slowly we have started doing all the work from here. I am very happy that it is happening here, a lot of people are getting their livelihood", said Manzoor Ahmad Alai, one of the first pencil unit holders, Pulwama Oukhoo. Dozens of units are engaged in preparing slats inside homes from a special tree that grows only in the wetlands of the district. The locals say that the wood of these trees grown here has the right amount of mois...

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China Laying Cables To Boost Communications At Ladakh Flashpoint: Indian Officials

INTERNATIONAL

According to a Reuters report, two Indian officials have suggested that despite India-China's high-level meetings to de-escalate tensions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), China is preparing for the long run as they are reportedly laying a network of optical fibre cables south of Pangong Lake in Ladakh. A senior Indian official stated that the optical fibre cables were recently spotted and would allow Chinese soldiers at the front lines to have secure lines of communication to bases in the rear. Reuters reported that the Chinese foreign ministry did not give any immediate answers to their questions regarding the Indian officials' statements. Currently, thousands of Chinese and Indian soldiers along with their tanks and aircraft are facing each other in a standoff along a 70 ...

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Kamran Yusuf, Two Other Journalists Thrashed by Forces Near Encounter Site in Kashmir

PULWAMA

Government Forces have thrashed Photojournalist Kamran Yusuf and two more journalists at the site of the encounter in Marwal in Pulwama, South Kashmir. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat over phone Kamran Yusuf said that he was rounded by Forces near the site of the encounter and thrashed mercilessly. "I was just performing my professional duties, I did not do anything provocative, I was beaten for no reason," Kamran said. Kamran told The Kashmiriyat that the forces tried to snatch away his camera and stopped him from performing his professional duties. Kamran, who was detained in 2017 by the National Investigating Agency and released after seven months, has not been thrashed for the first time while performing his duties. Two more journalists Faisal Bashir and Reshi Irshad have a...

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Militants Likely Escape in Pulwama Encounter- Two Troopers Injured, Massive Searches On

PULWAMA

Skinder Gull A Gunfight has raged out between militants and government forces in Marwal area in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that a joint team of Police, Army's 50 RR, and CRPF launched a cordon-and-search-operation in Marwal. During the searches, the Militants opened fire upon the forces, which triggered an encounter, the official said. An official of Indian Army said that one of the troopers, identified as Mahinder Singh Goyal Of 50 RR, was injured during the exchange of gunfire while another one got injured after he slipped down during the gunfight. Mahinder Goyal has been shifted to Army’s 92 base hospital for advanced treatment. As per the sources, two to three militants who were believed to be trapped at the site ...

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Shahadat of The Fourth Imam, ‘Ali Ibn Al Husayn, Zainul Abedeen (A.S) Observed in the Valley

OTHERS

Adil Hussain Khan A Large number of mourners on Monday participated in Muharram procession at different places in the valley to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Fourth Imam, ‘Ali Ibn Al Husayn, Zainul Abedeen (A.S). The procession in Shalimar was always taken out by president JK Anjuman-E-Sharie Shian and senior Hurriyat leader Aga Syed Hassan Almosvi Alsafvi but this time it was taken out without interference of any association and not under any association banner in Sharief Abad HMT, Shalimar. Imam Sajad a.s was born in Madina on 5th Shabaan 38 year of Hijra. In some history books, his date of birth is shown as 15th Jamadiul Awwal 38 AH. His mother was Shahr Bano the daughter of Yazdjurd II, the last of the Persian Kings before Islam. The calm and peaceful life of the Imam...

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‘They are Delaying the DNA Samples’- Says Kin of the Slain in Shopian Encounter

WRITE-UPS

Fizala Khan On the 18th of July, a day after an encounter raged in Shopian’s Amshipora, three 'alleged' militants were encountered and were buried silently in Baramulla, even without them being identified. Among the three was Abrar Ahmed, who is succeeded by a family that consists of a mother, a father, his wife, a child and his brother Javid Ahmed. The Jammu and Kashmir Police immediately collected the DNA samples of families of all three youth of Rajouri for the cross examination where as the family members of Abrar Ahmed have been asserting that DNA for cross examination and exhumation of bodies were collected more than a month ago. The families have not heard back from the officials. The Wife of Abrar Ahmed spoke to The Kashmiriyat and said, "We have repeatedly asked fo...