MK Reporter/Agencies Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday morning claimed that they have cleared the highway for the traffic and allowed hundreds of vehicles including trucks with essential supplies to proceed towards Kashmir Valley. By Noon of Saturday, they were stopped at various places resulting in traffic jams and panic among the people who had started their […]
By: Mudasir Ahmad Srinagar: On Saturday morning, most of the media people in Kashmir Valley were woken-up from their beds by the panic people as the rumours were making rounds that there would be a massive crackdown across Kashmir Valley with Central Government sending 100 more paramilitary companies here by air. The panic across the […]
SRINAGAR — Nearly 150 people, mainly from the religious and political organisation Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir including its chief Abdul Hamid Fayaz, were detained during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday as tension gripped the Valley ahead of a hearing by the Supreme Court on Article 35A of the Constitution. Though police termed the […]
Srinagar : The Centre has decided to deploy 100 more companies of paramilitary forces in Kashmir Valley immediately. “We have to urgently deploy CAPFs in Jammu & Kashmir. It is requested to provide 100 coys of CAPFs (CRPF – 45, BSF-35, SSB-10 & ITBP 10) to Govt of J&K with immediate effect and till further […]
SRINAGAR: An avalanche hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday, trapping five people, who were later rescued, officials said. The avalanche occurred in Chrawan area of Ajas in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district early on Saturday morning, disaster management department officials said. They said five people were trapped under the snow, prompting authorities to launch […]
Srinagar: Northern Kashmir’s Bandipora township is observing a shutdown against the purported killing of a local militant in Sopore gunfight on Friday. “The shutdown is being observed over the rumours of the death of a local militant in Sopore encounter,” locals said. They said that the militant is a resident of Qazipora village in the […]
Srinagar : Amid spontaneous shutdown clashes broke out between youth and forces in Lal chowk area of Anantnag district on Saturday. Eye witnesses said that the youth took to streets in Lal Chowk today morning and staged protests against the attacks on people of Kashmiri origin outside the state following Pulwama attack. The reports of […]
Srinagar : Arrival of more forces and arrests of leaders and activists of separatist groups including those of Jamat-e-Islami is purely part of an election exercise undertaken to ensure free and fair elections along with other parts of country, police said on Saturday. A top police official told Kashmir News Service (KNS) “the arrival of […]
Srinagar : PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday questioned the legality of the crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir leaders, saying the “arbitrary” move will only “precipitate matters” in the state. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was reacting to the government crackdown on separatists and Jamaat-e-Islami which began Friday night. JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin […]
In a major crackdown on jamati islami in Kashmir police during the previous night arrested several of its top leaders from different parts of Kashmir. Jklf chief Yasin Malik was also arrested from his Mouisama residence by police. Latest reports said that more separatists would be arrested as union home ministry has approved such action […]