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Srinagar District Congress Committee strongly protested against the innocent killings and urged the Govt to take effective measures to put an end to the unabated bloodshed in Kashmir. Srinagar District Congress Committee President Haji Abdul Gani Khan and Working DCC President Mir Ruvais led a protest of party workers against the innocent killing in Kashmir in which various party leaders, blocks presidents, Corporators, frontal organizations participated and expresses their solidarity with the families of martyrs.and The participants expressed grave concern over the deteriorated security situation in Kashmir, blaming the Govt failures to contain the loss of precious lives of innocent people. They also marched peacefully on MA Azad Road in solidarity with the deceased innocent civilia...

Protests have erupted in Shopian's Darazpora area after a civilian was shot dead in the south Kashmir district on Sunday noon. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that the locals staged protests demanding the dead body of the 20-year-old Shoaib Ahmed Ganie, who was shot dead in the area. Shoaib as per the Police was killed during crossfire in the Shopian area. The Jammu Kashmir Police in a tweet said, militats fired upon the joint patrol party of CRPF-182Bn/SOG of Pulwama near the bridge connecting Litter Pulwama with Turkwangam, Shopian. During exchange of fire between militants and the joint team, one civilian namely Shoaib Ah Ganie Son of Ghulam Mohammed Ganie, a resident of Turkwangam, Shopian got injured. Shoaib, later succumbed to his injuries. The Kashmiriyat tried to c...

A civilian was in injured in crossing firing amid a ‘chance’ encounter between militants and a joint team of police and security forces in Turkwagam South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. Clarifying it, a top police officer told GNS that there was an encounter which happened by chance in Turkwagam. A civilian received bullet wound in the exchange of fire and was subsequently shifted to nearby hospital where is condition is said to be stable. He has been identified as Shoiab Ahmad Ganai, however official confirmation regarding his identity is awaited. “It seems that the (militants) escaped but whole area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers.”(GNS)

Special Investigating Team (SIT) constituted by the Jammu Kashmir administration to probe all aspects of the killing of Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat, will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Central Kashmir range, Sujit Kumar Singh, Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He said that the SIT has been constituted and will be headed by DIG Central Kashmir while senior police officers will be its members. “The SIT will probe all the angles related to the killing of Rahul Bhat and submit its report to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) within a stipulated time period,” the official said. Sources privy to the SIT said that senior police officials including SSP Budgam will also be part of the Investigating team. “The team will probe whether there was a...

The Jammu Kashmir administration has shifted 82 more Hurriyat leaders and Kashmiri militants from different jails of Jammu Kashmir to several other jails in India including in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and New Delhi. Out of these 82, Forty-four prisoners have been lodged in UP’s Naini jail. Earlier in the second week of March, the Manoj Sinha-led administration shifted 96 Hurriyat and Kashmir militants detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) to jails outside the Jammu Kashmir. Quoting unnamed sources, Daily Excelsior reported that most of the separatists and militants including Pakistanis and Kashmiris have been shifted from Kot Bhalwal jail and prisons from the Valley to Haryana, New Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh jails. “Mainly those separatists and militants are being shifted to out...

More than 13% of women in Jammu & Kashmir have experienced violence after marriage, with husbands being the primary perpetrators in most cases, according to the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5). The report reveals that only 14% of women who faced violence sought help, while 84% neither reported nor confided in anyone. Among those who did seek assistance, most turned to their own families (54%), their husband’s family (44%), or friends (24%), while only 4% approached the police. The findings indicate that 10% of women aged 18-49 in J&K have experienced physical violence, and 3% have faced sexual violence. Among ever-married women, 12% reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, and 1% of pregnant women aged 18-19 reported physical abuse during pregnancy. S...

An 8-year-old girl died after drowning in a river near her house at Chanigam area of Ashmuqam in South Kashmir's Anantnag on Saturday evening, an official said. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a girl identified as Aasia Fayaz (8) daughter of Fayaz Ahmad Shah, a resident of Chanigam Ashmuqam slipped and drowned into a river Martan Canal. Soon after the incident, the family and neighbors immediately shifted her to SDH Seer where doctors declared her brought dead—(KNO

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested two alleged over ground workers in a “TRF conspiracy case” registered suo-moto by the agency in November last year. According to a statement, NIA conducted searches at four locations in, Kupwara, Pulwama and Shopian and arrested two accused in the case. “ The case relates to activities of ‘The Resistance Front’ (TRF), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its self-styled commander Sajjad Gul, who has been actively radicalising, motivating and recruiting youth of J&K for indulging in violent activities in J&K and other parts of India,” NIA said in the statement, according to GNS. “He along with his other associate commanders of LeT based in Pakistan, have been recruiting individuals (Over Ground Workers) to conduct re...

Police on Saturday said that they have arrested a teenager for stabbing a man in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a statement, the police said that Yesterday at about 21: 30 hours, a scuffle broke out between Mehrosh Parvaiz son of Parvaiz Ahmad Rather resident of Hanjoora aged about 19/20, and Mohammad Hussain Dar son of Showkat Ahmad Dar resident of Muqam Dadompora age about 14/15 years. The police spokesman further said that Mohammad Hussain Dar stabbed Mehrosh Parvez in his abdomen during the scuffle, resulting in critical injuries to him. The injured was shifted to SDH Chadoora and later referred to SMHS hospital Srinagar for further treatment where his condition is stated to be not well. A Case FIR No 5/2022 under relevant sections of law stands registered at Police sta...

Kashmiri Pandits employed under various departments of the Government on Saturday demanded their transfer to Jammu and other safer areas from the Kashmir. In a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat, the employees working under the 2010 PM Package have demanded that they be shifted to places outside Kashmir as they do not feel safe in the valley. "It is time to hear the voices on the ground," the employees said. With profound grief and anger, we PM package employees appointed for various supernumerary posts under CBM Policy in 2010 and onwards are still living as deported, unsettled, unsecured life,  Now almost 12 years in a row. We PM package employees working in different departments across Kashmir are feeling much worried, tense, unsecured, frustrated and dismayed. We are feeling...