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Mubasir Naik In a tragic incident, at least fourty people went missing after a major cloudburst in the Kishtwar area of the chenab valley in Jammu Kashmir. An official told The Kashmiriyat said that on Wednesday morning, a cloudburst has occurred in village Honjar Dacchan around 25KM away from the main town of Kishtwar in which at least fourty people have been reported missing. The official said that immediately a team of SDRF Team along with the Jammu Kashmir Police and Indian Army launched a massive rescue operation in the area. As per the official, seven dead bodies have been recovered so far while twelve injured persons have also been rescued so far, while rescue efforts were going on. The official said that at least six residential houses, one ration depot and a bridge ...

Operation All Out of launched by Government Forces in Jammu Kashmir in 2017, may have yielded results as hundreds of Militants have been killed, however, security forces have time and again expressed growing concern about recruitments into Militant groups. The recent "Terror Mapping Report" prepared by Security agencies reveals that South Kashmir continues to be a breeding ground for Militants and recruitments in various Militant outfits. According to the report, a total of 57 Youth were recruited in Jammu Kashmir from January to June this year, while several others have gone missing. Out of the total 52 recruits, 82 per cent were recruited from the districts of South Kashmir. The report further reveals that the maximum number of terrorists were recruited in Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). ...

Anuradha Bhasin- senior journalist from Kashmir and the editor-in-chief of Kashmir times has moved the apex Court in India to challenge the constitutional validity of the sedition law. Recently it was reported that a total of 326 cases were registered in the country under the controversial colonial-era penal law on sedition in the first term of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister (2014 and 2019). Out of these only six persons were convicted. Anuradha Bhasin has moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the law along with Patricia Mukhim- a Meghalaya-based columnist and the editor of the Shillong Times, NDTV reported. Mukhim and Bhasin in their petition have maintained that the “use of sedition to intimidate, silence and punish journalists has continued unrestrained…” The objectiv...

On Thursday, the Animal/Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Department released a notice in the view of Bakra Eid regarding the Stoppage of illegal killing/sacrifices of cows/calves, camels and "other animals." While, the "other animals" mentioned in the notice remain unspecified, it further says that action will be taken against the offenders for violation of transport of animals, rules on the occasion of Bakra Eid. The notice accessed by The Kashmiriyat further, says that in the view of the coming occasion of Bakra- Eid festival, large numbers of sacrificial animals are likely to be slaughtered in the UT of J&K during Bakra Eid festival scheduled from 21-23 July, 2021. The Animal Welfare Board of India, "in view of animal welfare has requested for implementation of all precautiona...

Danishwar Hameed A 25-year-old woman was allegedly found hanging inside her house in the Churath area of Kulgam district in South Kashmir. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that on Sunday morning, a woman (name withheld) ended her life by hanging herself inside her room in the Churath area of Qaziund in Kulgam. They said that the woman aged 25 was rushed to the hospital when the family members found her hanging, but she was declared brought dead on her arrival at the hospital. Locals from her native village speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that the woman only has her mother-in-law and a younger sister-in-law at her in-law's house. And that her husband's younger brother works outside Kashmir. He is the sole bread-earner to the family, as per the Locals. They also said that she had...

Amid Bold headlines, token photographs, the four former Chief Ministers of Jammu Kashmir could not bring smiles to the faces of the distressed public waiting in anticipation of a positive outcome of the All Party's meeting held in Delhi on June 24. The People of the region have been struck with a spell of distress, most still in utter disbelief of the region's autonomy being stripped on the 05th day of August in 2019. The unilateral decision of Abrogation was followed by a massive crackdown and a lockdown of several months. Among the arrested was the former Chief Ministers of the erstwhile state, Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti. A Complete clampdown was imposed in Kashmir, communication was downed and people were forced to indoors. "We still are unable to come out of t...

The stage is all set for an all-party meeting, scheduled to be held today (June 24) in New Delhi as the mainstream leaders from Jammu Kashmir, who were invited for the meeting, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday. The All-Party Meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to be held in New Delhi at 03:00 PM today. Leaders from Jammu Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Apni Party president Syed Altaf Bukhari and CPI (M) senior leader Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami and Congress leader Tara Chand have arrived New Delhi today. Congress senior leader and former J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is also among the invitees, is already in New Delhi while Peoples C...

Various Kashmiri Pandit activists based in Jammu and elsewhere in India while demanding an end to the political space and process in the valley have called for a “decisive battle against jihad”. Speaking on a webinar attended by various activists of the pandit community, they sought a military approach to handle the Kashmir situation while criticizing the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. The webinar (condolence meeting) was held on a day after the killing of Kashmiri BJP Leader, Rakesh Pandit by unknown gunmen in the Tral area of Sout Kashmir's Pulwama district. Several Pandit activists based in Kashmir and elsewhere have ridiculed the comments and said none of those present on the webinar represents the Pandit community. "They are hatemongers, they...

The Asiya and Neelofer double rape and murder case from Shopian 2009, remains one of the few cases to have been documented in the pages of the war time sexual violence in the Valley of Kashmir. Although constant efforts were made by the state to negate that the rapes happened in the first place, the Kashmiri memory refuses to forget. Today happens to be the 12th year since the rape. On the intervening nights of 29th and 30th May, 2009, two women from the same family were raped and then murdered. These women, who were sisters in law, on their way back home on 29 May 2009 went missing from their orchard. The next day, early morning, both their dead bodies were found at the Rambi Ara Naala. The dead bodies were a kilometer apart from each other. Neelofar Jan (22) and Aasiya Jan (17) ...