Month: October 2020

New York-based rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Indian government is using counter-terrorism operations to silence peaceful dissenters, human rights activists, and journalists. The HRW in a statement posted on its website, said that on October 28 and 29, 2020, the Indian National Investigation Agency carried out several raids on the offices of nongovernmental organizations, rights activists’ homes, and a newspaper office in Jammu Kashmir, Delhi, and Bangalore. It said, the raids are part of a crackdown by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on civil society groups. The statement said, the Indian authorities have increasingly brought politically motivated criminal cases, including under broadly worded terrorism and sedition laws, against activists, journalist...

A day after the killing of three party workers in south Kashmir, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president for Jammu Kashmir, Ravinder Raina on Friday said the world powers should “join hands and conduct NATO airstrikes on militant camps in Pakistan. “Just like the way the entire world came together….and NATO forces destroyed Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan…time has come for the world to jointly impose economic sanctions against Pakistan and with NATO forces, the big powers should conduct airstrikes on terror camps in Pakistan. Pakistan is a threat to world peace and humanity,” Raina told reporters after visiting Kulgam in South Kashmir to condole the death of party workers. Pertinently three BJP members Fida Hussain Itoo (BJYM District General Secretary Kulgam), Umer Rashid Be...

Salman Shah Marching through the lanes and streets of Anantnag tonship in South Kashmir, thousands of devotees, both women and men commemorated the annual birth anniversary of the last messenger of Islam, Muhammad (Salalaho Alyhi Wasalam). People in large numbers had made arrangements of food and other eatables for the marchers from various parts of South Kashmir, the Health department and the Municipal council had also made the arrangements for the commemoration. The participants, thousands in number, shouted Pro Islam and Anti France slogans. Starting from the central mosque in Anantnag, Jamia Masjid, the procession marching through the streets of Anantnag township culminated at the Martyrs graveyard of the township, where various scholars shed light on the life of the last ...

The Jammu Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) on Friday said that administration has blocked the residence of Farooq Abdullah and stopped him from offering prayers at Dargah Hazratbal in Srinagar. In their statement, the NC has said "JKNC condemns this infringement of fundamental right to pray, especially on the auspicious occasion of Milad Un Nabi SAW," the party said. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti while condemning the act of the administration said that it is a "gross violation of our rights and is highly condemnable". https://twitter.com/MehboobaMufti/status/1322052500162138112 "Preventing Farooq sahab from offering prayers on Milad Un Nabi SAW at Hazratbal exposes GOI’s (Government of India’s) deep paranoia & their iron fist approach towards ...

Journalist bodies based in Jammu Kashmir have condemned the “continuous harassment” of media institutions and Kashmiri journalists. “We condemn the continuous harassment of media institutions and Kashmiri journalists, including Parvaiz Bukhari, an internationally known journalist, who works for Agency France Press as its Kashmir correspondent,” reads a joint statement issued by Journalist Federation of Kashmir, Kashmir Working Journalist Association, Kashmir Journalist Corps, Kashmir National Television Journalist Association, Anjuman-e-Urdu Sahafat Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir Photo Journalist Association, Kashmir Journalist Association and Kashmir Press Club. “In recent months raids and continued harassment of journalists has become a regular norm and we see it as a broader tactic t...

Migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Thursday demanded a ban on sale of land to outsiders in Jammu Kashmir till the community is rehabilitated in Kashmir. Satish Ambardar, chairman of Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation, an organization of migrant Pandits said in a statement: "The Government of India notified land law for Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, The law paves the way for any citizen of India to buy land in J&K." "Kashmiri Pandits feel betrayed. For 31 years we have been waiting for return and rehabilitation in our land of origin. Without getting us rehabilitated in our land, the Government of India has thrown open the Kashmir land for sale. Is this justice? Since 1989, the community has suffered genocide and ethnic cleansing in the valley." "The success...

Amid the frequent reports of hacking between India and Pakistan, Indian hackers have hacked slogans of Jai Shri on online meetings on the issue of Jammu Kashmir in Pakistan. Reportedly, Pakistan had organized an international webinar which was hacked by Indian hackers, The webinar was attended by officials from many other countries including Pakistani officials. During the meeting, the songs with the slogan of Jai Shri Ram suddenly started playing. The guests involved in the webinar first felt that these songs are being played by Dr. Walid Malik, who is organizing the webinar. The song with the slogan of Jai Shri Ram continued for a long time in the webinar, Guests attending the meeting kept asking Walid Malik to stop singing, but the song did not stop. In the middle of the sloga...