Politics

National Conference senior leaders and Parliament Members, Muhammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi on the occasion of Constitution Day asked the government to restore the Democratic rights of the people of J&K to the fullest. In a press release, the Members of the Parliament said that it was heartening to note that the people of J&K are being denied their rights enshrined in the Constitution of the country. Party’s Members of Parliament, according to the release, said the BJP led Central Government has “disrespected country’s Constitution while dealing with J&K.” “Moreover the denial of basic civil liberties to the people of J&K also reveals how negatively predisposed the present ruling dispensation at Center is towards the Constitution of the country. The values c...

The Jammu Kashmir National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that false narrative against Art 370, 35 A stands defeated today in view of incumbent administrations large scale failures on all visible parameters in today’s JK. According to a statement issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS), The facts on ground have a different story to tell, said Dr. Farooq Abdullah while addressing a party convention in Samba today. Among others Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, Provincial President Jammu Ratan Lal Gupta, Senior leader Babu Rampal, YNC Provincial President Ajaz Jan, Political Advisor to President Mushtaq Guroo, party leaders Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Satwant Kour, Sudagar Gupta, Balbir Singh, Uday Singh, Rajeshwer Singh, Laxmi Dutta, Gourav K...

Shabir Khan  The Government forces on Saturday morning found an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in north Kashmir. Official sources told The Kashmiriyat that suspected militant had planted an 18 kilogram IED on the Bandipora—Sopore road near Ashtangoo. They said that on Sunday morning a road opening party of the Government for es detected IED in the area after which vehicular movement was barred on the road. "The bomb disposal has reached to the spot and is trying to defuse the IED that has been planted inside a gas cylinder,” they told The Kashmiriyat.

The Congress party Thursday said that Jammu Kashmir which used to be a country once has been converted into a Union Territory by the BJP for their own interests. Talking to reporters at Srinagar-based Congress headquarters, Vikar Rasool, party president for Jammu and Kashmir said that Jammu and Kashmir was a country once then autonomy was given to it. There was Article 370 and now BJP has turned it into UT which is totally injustice. He said BJP doesn’t want elections should take place in Jammu and Kashmir. “It is unfortunate that elections are being deferred in Jammu and Kashmir continuously. If elections are conducted in other states of India, why not in Jammu and Kashmir? It is clear that BJP wants to rule over in J&K from Delhi and doesn’t want people should elect their repre...

Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Monday said the stranding of fruit laden vehicles on Srinagar-Jammu highway will raise questions and “the onus of convincing fruit growers that nothing is deliberate lies on the government of the day”. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Lone, in a series of tweets, said “the stranding of fruit laden vehicles in the context of an extremely hard policy during the last 3 years and total detachment from masses will raise questions”. The PC president said the onus of convincing fruit growers that nothing is deliberate lies on the government of the day. He said the apple horticulturists were not asking for doles or government jobs. “Horticulture is the heart of Kashmiri rural economy. The apple horticulturists r not asking f...

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who ended his more than five-decade-long association with the Congress in August, has launched his own new political party named Democratic Azad party. The senior politician and former chief minister while speaking to media persons here at Jammu region announces the name of his new party – ‘Democratic Azad Party’. He said that around 1,500 names for his new party were sent to him in different languages including in Urdu, Sanskrit. “The mix of Hindi and Urdu is ‘Hindustani’. We wanted the name to be democratic, peaceful and independent,” he said. Earlier, Azad, in his first public meeting in Jammu after quitting Congress, had announced to launch his own political outfit that will focus on the restoration of full statehood. He had said that the ...