Month: September 2022

Abdul Ahad Rah (90) passed away at his native in Srinagar's Mahrajgunj area on Tuesday, earlier this week, awaiting a 'mulaqat' (meeting) over 22 years with two of his sons who were arrested by Delhi Police and the Interpol in the year 2000 in Nepal, and were never traced afterwards. Both of Ahad's sons Muhammad Shafi Rah (then 30) and Mushtaq Ahmad Rah (then 25), had left Srinagar in 1995, in search of employment in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. They worked at a tannery in Nepal, where they'd manufacture leather bags and gloves. On September 5, 2000, the Delhi Police, along with Interpol, conducted raids in Nepal and arrested several Kashmiri businessmen including both of Ahad's sons, in a case pertaining to the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane (IC-814) in December, 1999. ...

Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar termed it condemnable that even today its head and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Muhammad Umar Farooq was not allowed to leave his residence for delivering the Friday sermon to the faithful at the historic central Jamia Masjid Srinagar. The Anjuman in a statement said that like the previous several Fridays, additional police and other paramilitary forces were deployed today outside the Nigeen residence of Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Since 5 August 2019, Mirwaiz’s has not been allowed to deliver any friday sermon at Jamia Masjid due to his continuous arbitrary and illegal detention; and a large number of Muslims from across the valley who come to the Jama Masjid Srinagar to offer Friday prayers and benefit from Mirwaiz’s sermons and guidance have been deprived of it due ...

Jammu Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Friday said that a lot has been done to wipe out anti-peace elements including militants and that it won’t take much time to clear off the remaining ones. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Pedal For Peace event here, the DGP said that there were many thorns in the garden of peace, that was removed by police along with security forces. “Those remaining will be removed as well and that won’t take much time,” he said as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He said that Hurriyat and other anti-peace elements used to play a “bloody game” in Kashmir on behalf of their mentors across. “Almost all the anti-peace elements have been wiped out and those remaining will be cleared off soon,” DGP Singhs said. He...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is visiting Jammu and Kashmir for two days on October 1 and 2 during his visit he is likely to announce reservations for Pahari speaking community, BJP sources said on Friday, reported IANS. As per the party sources, Shah will address a public rally in Rajouri on October 1 in the Jammu division and in Kupwara district of Kashmir division on October 2, spending one day each in the two divisions of the union territory. “He will announce reservations for the Pahari speaking community whose large population lives in Poonch, Rajouri districts of the Jammu division and Baramulla district of the Valley. Shah will kickstart the BJP election campaign in J&K during his forthcoming visit,” BJP sources said. The delimitation commission has already made reserv...

CIC Operators working in the Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, J&K Friday said that highly qualified technocrats were appointed two decades ago as CIC Operators and they are still waiting for regularization orders despite the completion of all the codal formalities.” The CIC Operators held a press conference in Kashmir capital Srinagar said that they have been appointed on a merit basis through proper recruitment procedure by District Level Committees headed by Deputy Commissioners constituted by the Government in the year 2004, and since then they are continuously working in the Department, on a contractual basis with punctuality and dedication on a peanut salary of Rs 10000. The fact is that they are all highly qualified having degrees like M.Tech, MCA, MSc,...

Wildlife department on Friday rescued a 3 feet long snake in Sir Syed locality of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said here. An official told the news agency - Kashmir News Observer that the snake was spotted in the area early morning, following which locals informed the wildlife department. He said that soon after getting the information, a Rapid Response Unit was rushed to the spot, which rescued the snake.

Body of a 35-year-old man was fished out from a river in Surankote area of Poonch district on Friday. Official sources told GNS that a police team along with locals recovered the body from river Suran at Dhundak. The deceased was later identified as Faiz Akbar son of Mohammad Azam Gujjar of Phagla According to locals, the man allegedly jumped into the river and his body was recovered about 500ft down stream. SHO Surankote Rajveer Singh told GNS inquest proceedings have been launched into the incident. (GNS)

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list after Dussehra vacation the pleas challenging the Centre's decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices Indira Banerjee and S.Ravindra Bhat took note of the submissions of a counsel that the pleas were assured to be listed after the summer vacation but they could not be listed. “We will certainly list that," the CJI said. On April 25 this year, a bench headed by the then CJI N.V.Ramana, since retired, had agreed to consider listing after the summer vacation the pleas challenging the Centre's decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370. The pleas were then mentioned by interveners Radha Kumar,academic and author and Kapi...