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Jan42019 by News DeskNo Comments

From ‘Toffee Lene Gaye the Kya’ to the families of Militants

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January 04 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Reading regulo in the valley of deaths spiraling out of control, Hell trembles to space out as to under which Head? to room this new class, a unique breed of people as all classes of Evil otherwise stand classified for their fate. Insecure, inconspicuous figure, persecuted the shrunk souls from Paradise on Earth, Kashmir overnight turned celebrity on their Manning and on being manned both day in and day out. Identity politics stand well crafted on the right chord.political necessities of exposing and highlighting injustice, atrocities and what not? got adopted. So, Emotions got as such successfully brain split with open reflexes spontaneous enough rich to kick off changes on ground and so we did witness since then the Daily terror of ...

Jan32019 by News DeskNo Comments

Mathematics Scholar and a Teacher Slain in Tral Encounter

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January 03 Three Militants have been killed in the ongoing encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir on Wednesday. Sources informed The Kashmiriyat that three Local Militants have been killed in the joint operation by Government Forces including 42 RR of Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF. As per initial reports one among the three slain is Tawseef Ahmed thokar, a scholar turned Militant from Chursoo area of Awantipora in South Kashmir. Tawseef who was an MSc in Mathematics has joined Militant outfit Hizb ul Mujahideen on 14 May 2018, he had also done the B.ed Degree from Veta College in Awantipora. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the family of the Youth had earlier filed a missing report in the nearby Police station. The family of the 24 year old Tawseef after he we...

Jan32019 by News DeskNo Comments

Girl from Government School Scores 98 per cent in Class 10, Says She Wants to Spread Education

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January 03 Rayees Shah With meager resources and facilities girl from Watlar area of Ganderbal has shined in the recently announced 10th class results. Afseena Aijaz scored 494 marks out of 500 and surprised one and all. The Parents, relatives, friends and teachers of Afseena were jubilant when they heard that Afseena had passed the examination with flying colors. Parents of Afseena Aijaz while speaking to The Kashmiriyat said, “She is hard working girl. She defied all odds and passed with good marks.We are proud of her.” Afseena mostly studied in government school. She was currently studying in Watlar Public High school. The fact different about Afshana is that she does not want to be doctor or engineer instead she want to became a Professor wants to spread education in the so...

Dec312018 by News DeskNo Comments

Buried Next to Their Fathers, 3 militants killed in last 50 days whose fathers were also killed by forces

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December 31 In last two months three educated youths from Pulwama and shopian who had joined militant ranks were killed whose fathers were already killed by government forces before two decades. Ishfaq Ahmad wani son of late Mohammad yousuf wani@tahir resident of koil village of Pulwama killed in brief encounter at Banderpora on 28 December 2018, Liyakat Muneer wani son of Muneer Ahmad wani @colonel Jameel of Dargund Bellow killed in his native area november 10 2018 and Nawaz Ahmad wagay son of Gh qadir wagay resident of Reban shopian killed in his native village on 17 November 2018 are three militants whose fathers were also killed by government forces. Ishfaq responded to 'ghar wapsi' calls of his family especially mother but only dead. Ishfaq who was killed in a brief gunfight in b...

Dec292018 by News DeskNo Comments

Declared Pass in Board Exams Today, Numan in Grave for Past 1 Month

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December 29 Zaffar Dar Kashmir valley has been gripped by a deadly violence as the toll of deaths of civilians, Militants and Government Forces has been the highest in a decade. The raging violence has cut-short the dreams of thousands of families and youth, who have become a victim of the decades long violence in the region claimed by both India and Pakistan. A teenager, Numan Bhat killed the last month in the firing of Government Forces in Shopian on November 25 has passed in the matriculation exams whose results were declared by the State Board of School Education late on Saturday evening. Numan Ashraf Bhat, 15 year old boy and a resident of Bolus area in Kulgam was shot dead on 25 November during clashes near an encounter site in Shopian when six militants– Mushtaq A...

Dec292018 by News DeskNo Comments

Frozen Lakes and Water Tapes, Kashmir Continues to Shiver under Immense Cold

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December 29 The Kashmir valley yet another cold night as the temperatures dipped to Minus 7.2 degrees Celsius in the Summer capital of Jammu Kashmir. A MET Department official told that the cold weather conditions are likely to continue for another four to five days with chances of snow in the first week of January. Pahalgam recorded temperature at minus 8.3 degree Celsius while it was minus 7 degree Celsius in Gulmarg. Even the maximum temperature recorded in Drass on Friday did not rise above the freezing point as it settled at minus 5.5 degree.

Dec222018 by News DeskNo Comments

Tragedy of Kashmir- When Businesses in Pulwama Opened for 5 Minutes After Eight Days

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December 22 Zaffar Dar The frequent shutdowns and restrictions have caused a tremendous loss to the business fraternity in Kashmir, as the valley has been on the edge since decades. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the markets in Pulwama town had opened after a span of eight days post the killing of ten people in the Sirnoo area of South Kashmir's Pulwama District. "After eight days of continuous shutdown against the Pulwama Killings, We did not open our shops for even five minutes and the news of an encounter in Tral reached to us, so we shut down our shops yet again," Adil Rashid, a trader from Pulwama told The Kashmiriyat. Among the worst affected are street vendors and transporters. Dependent on daily earnings, they have lost all or most of their savings and many have been...

Dec192018 by Qazi ShibliNo Comments

They are Not Your Encounter Sites, These are Our Homes

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Almost every topic today is political in nature: poverty, farmers, climate change, privatization, Refugees, War, Denial of Space for Dissent– we have diverse opinions about these topics – but if we do not consider the facts surrounding these topics, we cannot formulate and act on informed opinions based on truth, or as I write- we must testify our beliefs. Fumbling, Sara, 50, wavers into an enormous pile of mud, darting her glance at this prodigious mound, searching perhaps, a lost memory, she runs, puts her hand into the mud and displays a book horse to a different lady- “This is my son’s only left memory, he died when he was 07 years old,” Sara says. On July 01, 2018, the forces, blew up the concrete house of Sara, turning it into rough fragments of mud, stone, brick, concrete,...

Dec162018 by Qazi ShibliNo Comments

‘Living here is worse than Death’- People Expectant of Gallantry Awards For Forces, As Kashmir Witnesses Another Day of Bloodshed

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Qazi Shibli Dozens of policemen stand guard at the main township of Pulwama, about 40 kilometers south of Srinagar. Gripped with deathly silence, its alleys are blocked with coils of concertina wires. Indian troops in battle gear rove the streets in this south Kashmir township where seven youth were killed as the army opened fire upon protesters. Outraged youth appear from a small street filling the silent enclosure with slogans, screeching and yelling at Government forces who rain tear smoke shells at them, they run, regroup, protest. Pitched battles between armed troopers equipped with riot gears and young Kashmiri protesters with stones and aluminum tin sheds in their armory continue unabated. ALSO READ: Bloody Saturday in Kashmir- The Complete Story of Pulwama Killings Into the he...

Dec152018 by News DeskNo Comments

Kashmir- Passerby Sees Face of a Teenager Killed in Pulwama Clashes, Finds it is His Son

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December 15 One of the civilians killed in Sirnoo area of South Kashmir's Pulwama District has been identified as Aqib Bashir from Prichoo Pulwama. Aqib, a class 8th student, was one of the seven civilians killed when forces resorted to firing upon protesters on Saturday morning. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that the body of Aqib was lying in the hospital bed for a long time as "unidentified" until a passerby in the Pulwama hospital came to check the face of the teenager, "The man upon checking the face fainted saying, Yi Chu myeoun Nechow (he is my son)." At least Seven civilians were shot dead while sixty five others injured as Government Forces opened indiscriminate fire upon protesters in Sirnoo area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama District. ALSO READ: Kashmir- Father Goes to Buy ...