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Returning to Srinagar in 1990 after an interval of four-to-five months came as a rude shock for Kashmir’s governor Jagmohan, says former R&AW chief A.S. Dulat. Jagmohan had been Jammu & Kashmir’s governor till August 1989 but when he returned the following January, the atmosphere had changed beyond recognition. “The Kashmir that he came back to after four or five months, it was totally different from the Kashmir he had left. He was quite shaken himself,” says Dulat, who is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on Kashmir and the insurgency. The newly released movie, The Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, has stirred polarising memories of those times. Dulat hasn’t seen the movie and he doesn’t intend to. “I don’t see propaganda. And it is a propaganda movi...

An RTI application filed by Pune-based RTI-activist, Prafful Sarda has revealed that a total of 64,827 migrants left the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir during the 1990s. Most of these Pandits left due to the growing militancy in the region, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MH) has stated. Prafful Sarda had filed an RTI with the Home Ministry, seeking information on the welfare of Kashmiri Pandits, including the number of Kashmiri Pandits who left the state after 1990, the reasons for migration, the locations to which they may have relocated, and the government's efforts to rehabilitate pandits, to name a few. “As per the information furnished by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, a total of 64,827 migrants families left the erstwhile state due to the onset of militancy in the 199...

After banning Russian players from participating in various competitions, the latest to face ban is the cats from Russia. Earlier the soccer governing body FIFA, the annual soccer tournament UEFA and the International Skating Union banned Russian athletes and teams from all events. Now, cats from Russia can't compete in any international competition, the Federation Internationale Feline announced. FIFe in its statement posted on its website, said any cat bred in Russia cannot be imported or registered in its pedigree book outside the country.buy lasix online https://www.ecladent.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/lasix.html no prescription Not only that, but any cat belonging to exhibitors living in Russia cannot enter any FIFe show outside the country, no matter where...

William Scott Ritter Jr- a renowned former United Nations weapons inspector has said that situation could have been prevented from escalating so far, had the western countries stopped arming the forces in Ukraine. He said that it is obvious for Russia to not allow any foreign interference in its immediate neighborhood. "All that needed to happen was Ukraine saying it will not be a part of NATO and would comply with the Minsk treaty, to which Ukraine is a signatory," he said. The Minsk Protocol is an agreement that sought to end the war in the Donbas region- a region that claims to be an independent nation.buy clomiphene online https://www.ecladent.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/clomiphene.html no prescription Its sovereignty was recently recognized by Russia to which ...

A court in Pulwama on Monday extended the police remand of Kashmiri journalist, Fahad Shah- who was arrested on 04 February 2022 by Police after being summoned to a Police station in Pulwama. Fahad Shah- Editor-in-Chief of The Kashmir Walla was produced in a court by Pulwama Police on Monday where the judge remanded him to police custody for seven more days. The defence lawyer has applied for the grounds of detention and the court initially had asked police to provide the same in two days, however, as of now, the grounds of detention have not been produced in the court. "The court has granted one more week to Police to submit the grounds of detention," sources told The Kashmiriyat. Fahad was summoned by Pulwama police in January for alleged 'incorrect reporting' about an encounter...

Suhail Dar The Jammu Kashmir administration on Sunday morning downgraded the security of former Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in South Kashmir. The security cover of two former MLAs, Syed Abdul Rashid, former minister and MLA from Kokernag (JKNC), and Abdul Majid Mir, former MLA Shangus was downgraded on Sunday morning. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Abdul Majeed Mir- former MLA Shangus and a resident of Achabal area in Anantnag said that on Sunday morning his security cover was picked up. "I did not get any official document, but I had a sense of this development as soon as I joined the People's Democratic Party," he said. He said that after his house was attacked twice in 2017 and 2018, his security cover was upgraded. He was also attacked in the year 2002 during an...

"I have to say one thing to you in my heart, in these 5 years a lot of unprecedented work has happened. Be careful, if you leave this time, 5 years of hard work will be washed away and this time it will not take long for Uttar Pradesh to become Kashmir, Bengal and Kerala," Yogi Adityanath told voters in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the first phase of elections in his state. A statistical reading of the statement proves that Jammu Kashmir, Kerala and West Bengal are ahead of Uttar Pradesh in almost all spheres. According to the data released by NITI Aayog- established by the Government of India, Uttar Pradesh lags behind the three states on several parameters including education. The data released by NITI Aayog states that 0.7% of the total population in Kerala is poor while in Jammu Kas...

Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) on Thursday released their manifesto for their return to the Kashmir valley. GKPD in a statement said that the manifesto was released after a two-year-long study by eminent, international scholars and human rights practitioners on the way forward for the just and sustainable return of Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland. While commending the present government for removal of Article 370 and making progress on the 6,000 Prime Minister jobs package, there was universal agreement that the state had abandoned the Kashmiri Pandit community which was now facing extinction, GKPD said. Furthermore, the statement said, Notwithstanding occasional rhetoric, the continuing official tag of ‘migrants’ showed that the State had not only not classified the Pa...

Kashmiri Journalist Gowhar Geelani has been summoned by a court in the Shopian district of Jammu Kashmir for acting in a manner “prejudicial” to the public interest that tends to “disturb” public peace.buy singulair Canada buy singulair generic Gowhar has been asked to ensure his appearance before the court of the Executive Magistrate by the 7th of February. The Executive Magistrate of Shopian, in his notice, has stated that the court received a report regarding the incident dated 01-02-2022 from concerned police authorities, wherein police personnel named Shabir Ahmad Wagay, son of Ghulam Hassan Wagay resident of Amshipora, Shopian was fired upon by militants at his native village Amshipora and was shifted to District Hospital Shopian in a critical condition. “Immediately after ...

Qazi Shibli The Delimitation Commission in its report has recommended the merger of Rajouri and Poonch into Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, among several other changes. In its interim report, the assembly segments seem to have been heavily scattered against the existing structure of the seats. In earlier instances, seats in Jammu Kashmir were delimited in 1963, 1973, and 1995. The last commission of 1995 was headed by Justice K.K. Gupta. The next delimitation was scheduled in 2005, but in 2002, the then state government froze the delimitation process until 2026. However, after the abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi-led government in 2019 August, a delimitation Commission was formed by the Government. Assembly elections have not been held in the region after June 2018 when the BJP p...