Month: December 2022

The Jammu Kashmir Police on Saturday said that militant recruitments in the Kashmir valley have shown a 37 percent decline compared to last year. He further claimed that "nobody was sheltering militants" and "parents want their wards to join Police not militants". “This year, 100 fresh recruitments into terrorist ranks were reported showing a decline of 37% compared to last year. A maximum (74) joined LeT. Out of total recruitment, 65 terrorists neutralized in encounters, 17 terrorists arrested and 18 terrorists are still active,” said the ADGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, in a tweet. He said 93 successful encounters took place in Kashmir in which 172 militants including 42 foreigners were killed. “Maximum terrorists neutralized from LeT/TRF(108) outfit followed by JeM (35), HM (22), Al-...

Suhail Dar A man who was among the eight injured by a "drunk" man in the Aishmuqam area of Anantnag district on December 23 succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Eight persons were injured, and three others were killed by Javed Ahmed after he attacked them in the area, after which Javed was arrested by the Police. The Kashmiriyat spoke to the locals who said Javed was under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. Eight persons who were injured were taken to the Primary Health Care center in Aishmuqam, from where two were referred to Srinagar for treatment, officials said. They said that on Saturday morning, a man identified as Mohammed Sultan son of Mohammed Yousuf Saka succumbed to his injuries taking the toll to four. Pertinently, the four persons killed during the a...

An extension wall of the house of a Hizb-ul-Mujaddeen militant allegedly built on encroached government land in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district was demolished by authorities on Saturday, officials said here. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the wall was demolished of the house of Ghulam Nabi Khan alias Amir Khan in Liver Pahalgam. He said Aamir is the operational commander of Hizb who crossed over to Pakistan Administrated Kashmir (PaK) in the early 90's and is operating from there. Earlier, house of JeM militant Ashiq Ahmad Nengroo alias Amjid Bhai of Hajan Bala was also demolished in Rajpora area of Pulwama—(KNO)

Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) vice president Ghulam Hassan Mir on Friday said only the Parliament or the Supreme Court can bring back Jammu  Kashmir’s special status that was revoked by the Government of India on 5 August 2019. “Article 370 can be brought back through two processes, one is Parliament which seems impossible because of insufficient representation, and the second is through the Supreme Court where the Apni party has a strong case,” Mir said while presiding over a party workers’ meeting held in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The meeting at the town hall in Ganderbal was held to discuss certain party issues and the prevailing political scenario. The former cabinet minister while addressing the meeting asked t...

Disappointed with the administration’s apathy, the villagers at Rampora and Rajpora areas of Sopore hills in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Friday cleared the roads on their own following the fresh snowfall on Thursday. Residents while talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that the administration here has failed to clear the snow from the Rampora-Rajpora road, which is some 25 kms away from the Sub divisional headquarter Sopore. The locals alleged that the authorities were resorting to a callous approach in clearing the roads, which are cut off, pushing the residents to face the hardships and forcing them to clear the snow on their own. The residents, however, demanded that the administration should take swift action with regard to the clearance of va...

The Admin on Friday ordered a time-bound inquiry into the December 28 fire incident in Civil Secretariat Jammu. Alok Kumar, IRS, Principal Secretary to Admin, Estates Department has been appointed as Inquiry Officer to enquire into the fire incident on and he has been asked to submit a report to the General Administration Department within a period of seven (7) days, according to a government order, a copy of which lies with GNS. The Inquiry Officer has been asked to “clearly establish cause of occurrence of the fire incident; cause of delay in controlling/extinguishing the fire.” The officer has also been tasked with to clearly establish whether the fire safety audit of the building had been carried out as was ordered by the Government order (No.592-JK(GAD) of 2022) on 21 May 2022, or ot...

A pedestrian was killed after hit by a Tavera driver at Kunzer Tangmarg area in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said. They told GNS that one Tawseef Ahmad Khan, son of Ghulam Ahmad Khan of Tarhama Kunzer was hit by a Tavera bearing registration number JK05C 6672, resulting in critical injuries to the individual. He was shifted from the spot to PHC Kunzer, where the doctors declared him as brought dead on arrival, they said. “The police arrested the erring driver and registered a case into the incident”, they further said. (GNS)