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Mujtaba Wani SRINAGAR: A general shutdown is being observed in Kashmir valley to commemorate the assassination of two senior separatist leaders. Shops and educational institutions are closed while traffic is off the roads. Government offices and banks, however, are functioning normally. Separatist leader and chief cleric of the valley, Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his Nigeen residence on this day in 1990. During a rally to mark his 12th death...
Posted 2 days ago.
SRINAGAR: Former separatist and chairman of the People's Conference party (PC), Sajjad Lone has launched a scathing attack on senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, piqued by the latter's criticism during a seminar yesterday. "We have a firm belief that Geelani was the best gift that status-quo lobby in New Delhi could aspire for,” Lone said in a statement. He was reacting to remarks made by Geelani on Sunday that the PC (the faction represented by Lone is in mainstream politics now) only strengthened...
Posted 31 days ago.
SRINAGAR: Normal life in Kashmir valley is disrupted on Saturday due to a shutdown called by separatist groups. Shops are closed and transport is affected too. However, most of the government offices, educational institutions and banks are open. The shutdown is part of an ongoing campaign by separatist groups for return of the body of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru, although other weekly protests have been curtailed. Guru, a native of Kashmir, was hanged in Tihar jail and buried there on Feb...
Posted 47 days ago.
Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: Twenty-three years after militancy broke out in Kashmir and 19 years after its formation, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has set up a two-member committee to analyse the “factors and reasons” behind killings in Kashmir, particularly the ‘mysterious’ killings, which have been generally attributed to unidentified...
Posted 53 days ago.
SRINAGAR: Normal life in Kashmir valley is disrupted on Thursday due to a shutdown called by separatist groups. Shops are closed and transport is affected too. However, most of the government offices, educational institutions and banks are open. The shutdown is part of an ongoing campaign by separatist groups for return of the body of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru. Guru, a native of Kashmir, was hanged in Tihar jail and buried there on Feb 9. The union government has refused to return the body...
Posted 56 days ago.
Sheikh Saqlain SRINAGAR: Senior separatist Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has asked Kashmir's mainstream political parties to take a lesson from the DMK party which withdrew support to the central government over the issue of Tamils in SriLanka. Mirwaiz lashed out at the ruling National Conference (NC) and main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) for failing to take a similar stand on Afzal Guru. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) of Tamilnadu accused New Delhi of quivering on a U.N....
Posted 61 days ago.
SRINAGAR: Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for shutdown on Thursday to protest against the killing of a youth in suburban Srinagar today. Altaf Ahmed Wani was killed on Wednesday afternoon in firing by paramilitary CRPF in Saidapora area near Eidgah. “India is denying political space to leaders and people of the state as a matter of policy. The authorities on the basis of power and high handedness are trying the curb the voices of the people of the state,” the octogenarian leader told a...
Posted 71 days ago.
SRINAGAR: Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was put under house arrest Thursday, following his arrival in Kashmir from New Delhi.
Authorities had earlier prevented the octogenarian leader from flying home after Afzal Guru was hanged on Feb 9.
He spent nearly 18 days under house arrest in Delhi and strict restrictions were also imposed on his communication.
Witnesses say the police waited at the Srinagar airport for Geelani to arrive and then took him away to his residence in Hyderpora.
Posted 77 days ago.
Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR: The Muttahida Majlis e Mashwarat or a joint advisory council of separatist parties in Kashmir say the young research scholar from Kashmir who died mysteriously in Hyderabad on Saturday was actually "murdered by Hindu fanatics". A statement issued by the council says the student was murdered for taking part in protests against the hanging of Guru and also leading funeral prayers in absentia for him. The council has also given him the title "Afzal e Saani" or 'Afzal...
Posted 81 days ago.
SRINAGAR: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Mashawarat or a joint advisory council of separatist parties in Kashmir has called for a shutdown on Monday against the death of a research scholar in Hyderabad. Mudasir Kamran, a research scholar from Pulwama district in his mid twenties, was pursuing a doctorate at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room by his colleagues late on Saturday and died while being shifted to a hospital. While calling Mudasir's...
Posted 81 days ago.
