All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) expressed deep grief and sorrow at the demise of veteran leader and TeH chief Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai who after developing serious breathing problems in Udhampur jail where he was lodged died at GMC Jammu. APHC in a statement while quoting family sources said that Sehrai Sahab was suffering from multiple ailments and despite repeated requests by the family that his health was deteriorating in jail, he was left unattended by the authorities till his condition worsened yesterday and he died. APHC deeply regrets this inhumane attitude of the authorities and is pained by It. APHC said despite repeated appeals to release political prisoners lodged in various jails on humanitarian grounds in view of the devastating covid catastrophe, authorities are pl...

After nearly nine months of detention under the Public Safety Act, Hurriyat stalwart, Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai in his late 70s passed away in Jammu's Government Medical College (GMC), nearly 350 kilometers away from his home in Srinagar. Ashraf as per his family was suffering from covid like symptoms when he was shifted to the GMC. However, they told The Kashmiriyat that he had been unwell for a long time now inside the jail. Mohammed Ashraf Khan's (Sehrai) Political career began at the age of 22 in the year 1965 when was jailed for the first time for “Anti-Government Activities” after the Moi-Muqadas Tehreek of 1963. Born in the year 1944 in the Tekipora area of Lolab in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, it was his forefather who migrated to Jammu Kashmir from pre-Partition Pakista...

The incarcerated chairman of Hurriyat Fraction, Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai who was under detention under the Public safety act is in critical condition at GMC Jammu, a family member confirmed to The Kashmiriyat. Sehrai was facing detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) has been hospitalized. He had been unwell for a long time, his family member told The Kashmiriyat. An official however said that he was shifted to the GMC in Jammu after his health started deteriorating at Kot Bhalwal jail on Tuesday. He said police have informed the family in the evening hours that Sehrai’s health has deteriorated in Jail and was accordingly admitted at GMC in Jammu. Pertinently, in July 2020 separatist leader Ashraf Sehrai was arrested from his residence in Srinagar by the Jammu Kashmir (J&K) ...

At least thirty-one more people succumbed to the COVID-19 since last evening in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the fatality count to 2489, officials said on Wednesday. Eighteen of the fresh deaths were reported at GMC Jammu while 13 others occurred in various hospitals of Kashmir, the officials told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). They said that an 85-year-old man from Shivpora Srinagar died at SMHS hospital, a day after he was admitted there. A 55-year-old woman from Chinad Delina died at Indoor stadium Khawajabagh Baramulla, two days after admitted to the converted health facility. A 65-year-old man from Nowgam died at SMHS Hospital, two days after he was admitted, they said. A 65-year-old man from Gulshan Abad Noor Bagh died six days after he was admitted at SM...

In a shocking incident, a two-month-old baby, who tested positive for Covid-19 and died in Jammu hospital yesterday, was abandoned by none other than his own parents, who fled from the hospital without taking the body of their baby along. In the Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital Jammu, that a two-month-old baby who was tested positive for Covid, succumbed Sunday morning at the hospital. “His parents left the hospital without taking the body of their baby along,” a Hospital source said. “The hospital staff tried their best to catch the baby’s parents and persuade them to take the body of the baby along but all efforts failed.” Medical Superintendent SMGS hospital Jammu Dr Dara Singh told KNO that a two-month-old baby was admitted on Sunday morning at around 7 am. “The baby was ...