Month: November 2020

Mubashir Naik Shouting slogans against the BJP-Led Government, Youth from the Gujjar Bakerwal community staged a protest in Jammu on Wednesday to protest against the demolition drive launched by the administration in Pahalgam area of South Kashmir. Speaking to the media, one of the protesters, Amir Choudhary said that the demolition drive is illegal an inhumane. "The Government rather than implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006, is evacuating the Gujjar Bakerwal community in various areas." He said that the Forest Rights Act is applicable in Jammu Kashmir since article 370 has been established. "The drive is inhumane and the Forest Department without any notice has demolished houses in the Pahalgam area," Amir said. Denouncing the demolition drive launched in Pahalgam, which ...

Irshad Hussain The inhabitants of Gund hassi bhat Srinagar and Sozait are up in arms against the administration for failing to macadamize their dilapidated roads. Demanding the road macadamization to their area, locals told The Kasshmiriyat that for the past five years conditions of the linked road is dilapidated and need to be macadamized as early as possible. They alleged that a drain was constructed five years ago in the area, but soon after the whole Gund hassi bhat and Sozait area had been neglected by concerned authorities for the years. Javaid Ahmad Najar a local from Ahangar mohalla gund hassi bhat told The Kashmiriyat they are unable to secure their vehicles due to the worst roads in the area. Now as winters have approached, every habitant has to be in long boots d...

The Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), an amalgam of different political and religious parties based in Ladakh’s Kargil region has said that that it doesn’t recognize the Union Territory status of Ladakh. KDA demanded complete statehood for Ladakh while accusing the BJP government of disempowering the people of the region by taking away legislative and governing powers from them. However, the Alliance has also stated that by demanding statehood for Ladakh it hasn’t shifted away from its demand of seeking the restoration of Article 370 and Article 35 A. The Alliance has said that the demand for restoring Article 370 is currently being heard by the Supreme Court, and added that if the court decides to restore Article 370 and unify J&K and Ladakh then, the Alliance would be satis...

The Jammu Kashmir high court has ordered the 'conditional' release of separatist leader, Masarat Alam maintaining that the detention order against him has outlived its life. A division bench of the J&K high court comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Rajnesh Oswal on Tuesday ordered the release of Masarat Alam, chairman of the separatist Muslim League, after noticing that the detention order against Alam had outlived its life. The High Court said Masrat must be released if there are no more pending FIRs against him. Masarat Alam has been detained under the harsh Public Safety Act (PSA) 36 times. His last preventive detention under the PSA was ordered by the District Magistrate in J&K's Kupwara district on November 14, 2017. He is known as a close confidante o...