Tag: Kashmir Crackdown

A ban under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act may be imposed on both factions of the Hurriyat Conference which has been spearheading the separatist movement in Jammu Kashmir for over two decades, officials said. They said a recent probe into the granting of MBBS seats to Kashmiri students by institutions in Pakistan indicates that the money collected from aspirants by some organizations which were part of the Hurriyat Conference conglomerate was being used for funding terror organizations in the union territory. The officials said both the factions of the Hurriyat are likely to be banned under Section 3(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or the UAPA, under which "if the Central Government is of opinion that any association is, or has become, an unlawful ...

Rayees Shah The authorities booked a private school teacher under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in North Kashmir's Kupwara District. Zahoor Abbas Khan (39) son of Mohammed Abbas Khan who is a resident of Devar area in Lolab belt of this North Kashmir district has been booked under PSA and shifted to the District Jail in Kupwara. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that in the fist week of July,  Zahoor had been summoned by Police Station Lolab, he went there and was detained. The detention was questioned by the family members, however the family says their questions were simply evaded. Zahoor who is a teacher by profession in wake of Covid-19 lock-down situation, was a part of a voluntarily came in the area and distributed food kits among needy families which had no association with any...