The political atmosphere in the country has been warmed again when Shiv Sena spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut has strongly criticized Mehbooba Mufti's statement and said that she should be arrested and sent to jail in Andaman for 10 years, after the statement given by the former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said she will not lift the tricolor and bring Article 370 back. As per the reports Raut said, "Whether it is Farooq Abdullah or Mehbooba Mufti, if someone talks about taking China's help to challenge India's constitution, then they should be arrested and sent to Andaman for 10 years. How are they roaming free?" The Shiv Sena leader Raut earlier too has attacked Mehbooba Mufti and said, "If Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah and others want to implement Artic...

Jammu Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh has said that Militants preferring to surrender during encounters with state forces is a welcome development. He also appealed the youngsters, to  return to the mainstream and leave the path of violence. The DGP was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at Zewan on the city outskirts on the occasion of the “National Unity Day” that marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. “Militants surrendering in the last few encounters is a welcome development. The youngesters are accepting the offers of police and state forces to surrender even during a live action when bullets are being fired, so it is a welcome development,” he said. The DGP said “all those who picked up arms should return to t...

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief, Ghulam Ahmad Mir said there was a need to come up with a common platform to fight against the repealing of land law in the union territory. Mir said that people across Jammu Kashmir are anguished over the decision taken by the government three days ago. He said that after taking the unconstitutional decision in August 2019,  the government that the land in J&K will be protected, but they betrayed the people by repealing the land law. He further added that Congress and the existing alliance of mainstream leaders have many common agendas and decisions taken in August last year is the main common agenda. "We are part of these common agendas, but there can be differences in the language being used while fighting for th...

Major townships across the Kashmir valley on Saturday are observing a complete shutdown to protest the new land laws passed by the Modi-led central Government. ALSO READ: “India Trying to Snatch our Land and Identity from Us,” Hurriyat asks People to Observe Shutdown Business establishments in the region are shut while as vehicular movement has been affected to a great level, in view of the shutdown call issued by the Hurriyat confrence led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The Indian Government earlier this week issued an order giving the non-Kashmiris access to buy lands across Jammu Kashmir, a move which has evoked massive criticism. Kashmir and Jammu based groups have condemned the move and called it a 'Unilateral decision' as there is no functional legislature in Jammu Kashmir. ...

Mubahsir Naik Police has arrested two persons including a ‘Molvi' in forgery (fake Nikkah Nama) in Nagrota, Jammu "A case FIR number 84/2020 U/S 494/420/465/466 /468/469/471/474/120-B was registered in police station Nagrota following a written complaint by a lady namely Parveen Akhter wife of Gafoor Khan of Shibba (Nagrota) on 21-02-20 that her husband contracted 2nd marriage with a lady namely Ulfat Kosser wife of Anwar Khan of Shibba without her consent and knowledge," a police official told The Kashmiriyat. He said that the woman in her complained also submitted that Gafoor Khan hatched criminal conspiracy with Molvi Mohd Hussain alias Bittu son of Bahar Din of Sandhi Kanna (Chargal) who prepared false, fake and fraudulent document of ‘Nikkah Nama'. The official said that d...

Sajad Hameed A Couple of days after the killing of three Bhartiya Janta party workers in South Kashmir, a fresh wave of fear has spread among its cadre in Kashmir. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that a worker of Bhartiya Party has submitted a public resignation after the fresh killings which has spread terror waves across the low-rung BJP cadre. Haamid Bhat, an advocate from Baramulla district who was also an active member of the BJP take to Social media announced his disassociation from the basic membership of BJP party along with his two colleagues. Haamid Bhat wrote on his Facebook timeline, "To all my Dear Friends and Kashmiri People !! I Disassociate my Self along with My two Colleagues Named as Touseef Lateef and Mudasir Dar from the Basic Membership as well as Posts held ...

A Few Days after the Modi-led Government opened land of Jammu Kashmir for sale to outsiders, the administration has transferred 2.4 lakh kanals of land to the Industries and Commerce Department for investment purposes while almost an equal Kanals of land will be notified shortly following clearance from the Forest Department, at least 65 big houses are constantly in touch with the Government to set up their units, Daily excelsior reported. The report further read that the administration in Jammu Kashmir had kept the target of 4.8 lakh kanals of land for inviting investments in Jammu Kashmir following abolition of special status of Jammu Kashmir on August 5, 2019 which included extension of existing Industrial Estates as well as setting up of new Estates not only in the capital cities of...

Omar Abdullah on Friday, in a move which might have come as a shocker to many, reached Ladakh where he received a rousing reception and warm support. Though the Government at Centre has made immense efforts to wean Ladakhis off Kashmiris’ political campaigns,The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on Friday, making its first outreach to Kargil, won support from a local coalition of political, religious and social bodies. The development was equally a setback for Ladakh’s Buddhist alliance, which has been seeking Muslim-majority Kargil’s support in its battle to have the fledgling Union Territory included in the autonomy-granting Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. In this struggle to keep Ladakh off Kashmir's Politics, Kargil, a Muslim Majority region was heavily ignored and ...

New York-based rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Indian government is using counter-terrorism operations to silence peaceful dissenters, human rights activists, and journalists. The HRW in a statement posted on its website, said that on October 28 and 29, 2020, the Indian National Investigation Agency carried out several raids on the offices of nongovernmental organizations, rights activists’ homes, and a newspaper office in Jammu Kashmir, Delhi, and Bangalore. It said, the raids are part of a crackdown by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on civil society groups. The statement said, the Indian authorities have increasingly brought politically motivated criminal cases, including under broadly worded terrorism and sedition laws, against activists, journalists...