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Jul152020 by News DeskNo Comments

We Will Sit on Dharna if Statehood is not Restored- BJP Leader

INTERVIEW

Post abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, for the first time representatives of pro-establishment groups from Jammu Kashmir spoke to The Kashmiriyat in the first episode of straightforward. Peerzada Touqeer, a former Judge of the sessions court and a leader of the Jammu Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) said that Central government has brutal majority and they are taking undue advantage of that. WATCH THE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQyexc-pI0 "All parties should keep their political differences aside and fight with the Delhi's highhandedness," the NC Leader said. "National Conference is waiting for their leaders who have been lodged in different jails. Once they will be free, we will fight with collectively to get Art 370 back," he said. Ghulam Nabi Malik, leader of comm...

Apr62019 by Qazi ShibliNo Comments

Meet Azmat Ali- Woman with a Mission to Save Kashmiri Culture

CULTURE, INTERVIEW

A Kashmir with abundant resources, where you simply scatter seeds and harvest fruit, and everybody is a friend and a welcome guest. A place where stories are told under the stars and songs are sung around the fire, where wisdom passed on to robust, hopeful young people. That is the Kashmir, Azmat Ali Mir is trying to capture and preserve for generations to come. A mission-minded woman, Azmat Ali Mir recently organized a grand Kashmiri cultural event 'Koshur Saal' thousands of miles away from Kashmir. In her childhood days, she was moved to respond to the suffering and poverty she witnessed around her in Kashmir. With the profit garnered from the grand event at Bangalore, Azmat strives to carry on the mission to serve the poor, sick and uneducated - especially craftsmen, children to help...

Mar132019 by News DeskNo Comments

Militants, Civilians Killed by Forces are Martyrs, India has never Understood Kashmir- NC Leader

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March 13 Former Vice-chairman of JK Muslim Waqf board and member of National conference Peer Muhammad Hussain has in an exclusive interview with The Kashmiriyat said that every Kashmiri killed at the hands of Forces is a Militant. The leader who joined National Conference the last year after separating from PDP in 2016 said that the interference of Mehbooba Mufti into the affairs of Waqf Board was the primary reason that he quit the party. Condemning the ban on Jamaat e Islami, he said the Government of India has never understood the issue of Kashmir. "Killing any sentiment with force is not easy, they have always tried to flex muscles on common Kashmiris, which is not the solution to the issue, but historically has been the problem. " the NC leader said. He said that the war r...

Feb22019 by News DeskNo Comments

This Kashmiri Poet From Tral Seeks Peace in Valley through His Poetry

CULTURE, INTERVIEW

January 31 As the Kashmir valley Witnesses prolonged unrest, paralyzed life, caged nights and curfewed days from decades, it has gained wide attention from media. But on the other hand, the Kashmir vale has a history and culture and is known as a birth place of some famous Sufi saints and poets. Here in Tral, also known as "SHAH-E-HAMDAAN" town, a sufi poet Abdul Gani, from an economically backward village Dar Ganie Gund Tral is striving for peace through his poems. Abdul Gani alias "Gani Razaq Kashmiri" , born in 1960 at Dar ganie Gund village, some fifteen kilometers away from Tral town despite all odds has kept believing that poetry and literature can take Kashmir into peace. There was only one institution in the area which was about 5 km from his native village where he received ...

Jan22019 by News DeskNo Comments

It has become tough for us to Move out, Says JKNC Leader

INTERVIEW

January 02 Dr. Bashir Veeri The President of National Conference for the volatile South Kashmir districts of Shopian, Pulwama, Islamabad (Anantnag) and Kulgam in a interview with The Kashmiriyat has said that the security situation in Kashmir valley in general and South Kashmir in particular has deteriorated in the past few years to an extreme that it has got tough for the members of the pro establishment groups to go out to the public. He also said that the Kashmir imbroglio needs to be understood in a historical context. "The rulers from New Delhi have never fulfilled their promises regarding the plebiscite to people of Jammu Kashmir." He told The Kashmiriyat that Kashmir issue needs to be resolved amicably and a politics needs not be pushed to the back-burner. "Sheikh Abdullah was...

Jul22018 by News DeskNo Comments

Zakir Musa is becoming the Moses brought up in the courtyard of Pharaoh

INTERVIEW

July 02/ 2017 On 12 May, a video released by the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Zakir Rashid Bhat Alias Musa took the Kashmir valley by a storm. The video message was a major development in the history of militancy in Jammu Kashmir Zakir. In the video, Musa warned the Hurriyat leaders and threatened that he will chop off their heads and display them at Lal Chowk in Srinagar if they prove to be the "thorns" in the way of the militants. The younger generation in Kashmir came out in support of Musa on social networking, on streets displaying his photos, shouting Pro Zakir Slogans. The less known fact nevertheless is, immediately after the statement, a Kashmiri political activist, ‘the heart rob leader’ of the early 90s famous for his slogan “Anaj Ugaw, Azadi Paw”, Shakeel Ahmed Bakshi was...