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February 22 Amid growing attacks on Kashmiris in various states of India in the aftermath of Deadly Pulwama attack which left at least 45 CRPF men dead, a Kashmiri student has been attacked by mobs in Chandigarh on Friday morning. Mohammed Vikas Malik, a resident of Islamabad (anantnag) township in South Kashmir, who is pursuing Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) from a college in Mohali  was rounded up by a mob and thrashed allegedly for more than an hour. ALSO READ: Attacks on Kashmiris Increase in Parts of India, Asked to Leave Bihar Within 24 Hours "I was late to the university in the morning, so i boarded an auto to reach the university which is very close by to my rented accommodation," Vikas told The Kashmiriyat adding that in the auto he got a call from home. He said t...

February 22 Militant attacks and deaths of Government Force personnel in Jammu Kashmir have increased in the tenure of BJP Led Government in New Delhi. Stats available to The Kashmiriyat reveal that Militant attacks have increased from 170 in 2013 to 614 in 2018. 222 Militant attacks happened in 2014, 208 in 2015, 322 in 2016, 342 in 2017 and in 2018, the number rose to 614. On the Killing of Government Force personnel too, stats reveal that the central Government has failed to tackle the rising deaths of Government Force personnel, in 2013, 53 Government Force personnel were killed while in 2018 the number was 91.The number was 47 in 2014, 39 in 2015, 82 in 2016, 80 in 2017, 91 in 2018. Stone throwing at Encounter sites also started in the tenure of BJP in 2015, June 23, when ...

February 22 Fearing for their Lives, sixty Kashmiri traders staying in Ramgarh Haryana have shut their business alleging alleged that they were forced to shut their shops and leave the area by local residents. A Report on Indian Express quoted one Nisar Ahmed Khan, who has a shop where he sells Kashmiri shawls and clothing, as saying that that two days ago, unidentified men came and asked them to leave.buy tadalafil online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/new/tadalafil.html no prescription “On February 15, some local residents, while taking out a candle-light march, taunted us. Then two days ago, after the incident in Mullana, they asked us to leave. We locked ourselves in a shop and downed the shutters. But some men threw stones at the shutters demanding...

February 22 At least two suspected members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband. One of the accused has been identified as Shahnawaz Ahmed Teli, a resident of J&K’s Kulgam, whereas, the other has been identified as Aqib from Pulwama. The arrests were made by the UP Anti-Terrorism Squad, which launched a raid in Deoband in the early hours of Friday. UP DGP OP Singh said that the suspected were arrested along with two weapons and live cartridges. “Of the two Shahnawaz is said to be a grenade expert. We will seek transit remand and investigate when they came here from Kashmir and who is funding them and what was their target. We are in touch with J&K Police.” Singh was quoted as saying by ANI.

February 22 IkkJutt Jammu a right wing organisation on Friday asked Government of India to order ‘surgical strikes’ in J&K and to immediately scrap Article 370 and Article 35A of constitution of India. According to a statement they said that ‘immediate surgical strike should be done against the support structures of Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir’. Ankur Sharma, Chairman IkkJutt Jammu said that this operation should be immediately started by repealing Article 370 and Article 35-A, which have been used by the Pakistani flanks to convert the State into a Islamic State. “If the Govt of India means business, it has to dismantle all those instruments which they are using to divide India for the Fifth time on communal basis, this is not acceptable,” said Ankur Sharma. Ankur Sharma s...

February 22 A Kashmiri professor has been forced to resign from Lovely Professional University, a private university in Punjab in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack. In the aftermath of the Pulwama attack, Kashmiri students scattered across India have been harassed and attacked. There also have been reports of Kashmiri students being rusticated from colleges. Shaheen, a professor of English at Loverl Professional university in Punjab who hails from North kashmir has become the latest victim of hatred against Kashmiris in India as he was forced to resign from the university. Shaheen according to News Click was forced to quit over a whatsapp chat after he commented that people were dying everyday in Kashmir. Shaheen said that he was forced to resign, and as he was heading hom...

February 22 In the latest incident of assault on Kashmiri students after the Pulwama attack, Kashmiri students studying in a college in Yavatmal were attacked by members of Yuva Sena, the youth wing of Shiv Sena, police said Thursday. The attack happened Wednesday night, police said. The students were also threatened, they added. A video of the incident has gone viral on the social media and a case has been registered at the Yavatmal police station. The students were attacked around 10 pm outside their rented accommodation on Waghapur Road, police said. The video shows the Yuva Sena workers asking the students where they are from. When they say they came from Kashmir, they are slapped, beaten up and threatened. The assailants can be seen harassing the students and asking the...

February 21 The Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) here has taken action against three Kashmiri girls for allegedly posting adverse remarks against the Indian Army on social media, a senior official said Thursday. After the deadly Pulwama attack on February 14, these girls allegedly made some adverse and objectionable comments on a Whatsapp group in which other students were also members, the official said. After the matter came to light, the institute conducted a probe and action was taken thereafter. “The action against the three Kashmiri girl students was taken on Wednesday after a probe and local intelligence report. While fellowship of two girls has been stopped, admission of one other has been cancelled,” Registrar, IVRI, Rakesh Kumar said. He said the two stu...

February 21 Some people want Kashmir to be part of India but don't want Kashmiris to be part of Indians, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Thursday and asserted that the "irony of the situation is depressing". The former home and finance minister also took a dig at Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy's statement that he favoured a call for the boycott of Kashmiri products and visiting the state as tourists. "The irony of the situation is depressing. We want Kashmir to be part of India, but we do not want Kashmiris to be part of Indians," he said in a tweet. Chidambaram said the 'Statue of Unity', the 182 metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, located near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, watches over the governor of Meghalaya and others who seem to think that Kashmiris...

February 20 A young girl from Kolkata was trolled and allegedly threatened with rape on Facebook for a post on the plight of Kashmiris in the wake of the Pulwama attack, she said on Wednesday. In her February 15 post, the Class 12 girl condemned the deadly attack in Jammu Kashmir that killed 40 CRPF jawans, while highlighting the daily hardships of Kashmiris. She said some people asked her to leave the country and go to Pakistan in reply to her post, and others threatened rape and dire consequences. A local shopkeeper also told her that a few men were trying to locate her house through her Facebook pictures, she claimed. "Initially, after receiving the threats, I had deleted my post. But after I came to know that some youths were looking for me, I decided to delete my Facebo...