Month: November 2020

Senior National Conference leader and incumbent Member Parliament (MP) Muhammad Akbar Lone on Monday said that they would go to any extent to bring back Article 370 in Jammu Kashmir. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Akbar Lone, who is also National Conference senior leader and former legislator from Sonawari constituency of Bandipora, said that if they come to power they would go to any extent to restore Article 370. Speaking to media persons on the side-lines of a party function in Sonawari, Lone told reporters that they will not they will not hold back until they bring back Article 370 as this is “our identity”. Lashing out at Jammu Kashmir Apni Party founder, Muhammad Altaf Bukhari for his recent remarks about PAGD, he said that Altaf Bukhari is “an op...

A minor boy (name with held) from Mawer area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday attempted to end his life by consuming some poisonous substance at his home after being allegedly sexually harassed by a private school teacher here. The family of the minor boy told a news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) that he was sexually harassed by a school teacher for over a month and yesterday he consumed some poisonous substances to get rid off of the abuse. He added soon after the incident, he was taken to a nearby hospital but after his condition deteriorated he was shifted to Srinagar hospital for treatment where his condition is stated to be stable. The family demanded strict action against the accused person and said the teacher is considered a spiritual father o...

On Sunday, November 22, members of the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) went on a hunger strike for the second time in three months. KPSS president Sanjay Tickoo is fasting alongside another member Sandeep Koul. They are demanding the implementation of various government schemes related to providing employment and economic relief to members of this extremely marginalised and impoverished minority community in Jammu Kashmir. A security that was earlier provided to members of the community has now been withdrawn and Kashmiri Pandit families, especially vocal community leaders are now left to their own devices to protect themselves. Nearly 600 youth are unemployed. While they had earlier qualified for employment schemes of the government, a delay in implementation of the schemes...

Danishwar Hameed The family of the missing siblings from Kulgam on Monday evening after a span of more than five days has been able to trace them from the capital city of New Delhi. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat Irshad Ahmed, a family member said that the duo Younus and Faisal Hassan Dar, the siblings from Mohamed Pora in Kulgam district who as reported earlier by The Kashmiriyat had left home on 14 November 2020 to Kanpur have been traced from Cyber Police Station in new Delhi. The Jammu Kashmir Police in Kulgam after a missing report was filed by the family swung into action and formed a team that soon met the family and left for Uttar Pradesh's Sikandrau. However, on the way, the phones displayed a new location, in Haryana, and soon they approached the concerned Police Statio...

Mir Musavir Five days after two brothers of Kulgam went missing from Uttarpradesh one more family of KanelwanBijbehara in south Kashmir Anantnag District has complained that their son Muneeb Ahmad Sofi has gone missing from Doha Qatar. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat over the phone his father Bilal Ahmad Sofi said, “Muneeb was working in a juice factory in Doha Qatar, we lost contact with him since 18 Oct. 2020. we have been running from pillar to post to find Muneeb who is 20 years old." His father alleged that the Government Forces had been constantly harassing him over phone calls. "A case has been registered against Muneeb in the Kulgam Police Station." "I was summoned to a Police Station in Srinagar where they asked me about my son," Bilal Ahmed Sofi alleged. Muneeb, as p...