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    • Posts Tagged ‘report’

    Kashmir angry over 'limited reportage' of human rights violations

    MediaBlackout

    SRINAGAR:  A group of Kashmir residents on Tuesday lambasted what they called editorial decisions of Indian media to 'blackout a report documenting role of 500 security officials as alleged perpetrators' in 214 cases of human rights violations since armed rebellion erupted in the state in 1989. A statement signed by over a dozen human-rights activists, academics, lawyers and journalists, has deplored the "biased reaction of the media" after International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice and the...

    Posted 190 days ago.

    Robbery,assault case against armymen in North Kashmir

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, Nov 01: Jammu and Kashmir police has registered a case of robbery and assault against army after complaints from some drivers plying on Srinagar-Baramulla highway in North Kashmir. Police said that the FIR was registered under Randhir penal Code section 392(robbery), 341(wrongful restraint) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) in Northern town of Baramulla, some 50 km from summer capital Srinagar. A police official said they received complaints from some drivers...

    Posted 230 days ago.

    Media Shame: Kashmir govt. to award doctors damned by media

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, Oct 25: Two surgeons of North Kashmir’s remote sub-district hospital of Ganderbal, who despite saving life of a critical patient were wrongly damned by media in August, will be specially awarded by state government  today. The doctors, Sheikh Tariq (38) and Abdul Rouf (39), became the target of public ire after a local news agency wrongly reported a sensitive story , “Kashmir doctors remove gall-bladder instead of appendix” on August 16 mentioning the “negligence of...

    Posted 237 days ago.

    KASHMIR: Another missed opportunity

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    Muzamil Jaleel From beginning to end, the interlocutors’ report overlooks the fundamentals about Kashmir When Kashmir was simmering with angry protests for the third consecutive year in 2010, the Centre appointed a group of three interlocutors — Dilip Padgaonkar, M.M. Ansari and Radha Kumar — “to interact with all shades of political opinion” and “suggest a way forward that truly reflects the aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.” Based on year-long...

    Posted 370 days ago.

    Kashmir 'Compact': Nothing workable, nothing fresh

    Kashmir Interlocutors

    The interlocutors’ report on Jammu and Kashmir offers no credible roadmap for a lasting solution... Khursheed Wani The typical Congress-style of addressing intricate political issues is to increase the complexity by buying time, creating confusion and leading the stakeholders into a labyrinth of dark alleys where they fret aimlessly. Union Minister for Home Affairs P Chidambaram is carrying this Congress legacy to new heights — or depths. Like the manner in which he pronounced on...

    Posted 373 days ago.

    Be a part of the Kashmir solution

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    Dileep Padgaonkar In his article Half-hearted, half-baked (May 4), Hilal Mir's reference to Jayaprakash Narayan's 1964 article — in which he urged the government of India to let the Kashmiris exercise their right to self-determination — is accurate. But in fairness to HT readers, Mir should have pointed out that Narayan changed his position four years later. At a people's convention, held soon after Shaikh Abdullah was released from detention in January 1968, Narayan, an old friend and...

    Posted 376 days ago.

    Kashmir interlocutors' report may be put on hold

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    NEW DELHI, June 4:The UPA government is likely to put the Kashmir interlocutors report on the backburner for the time being. Highly-placed home ministry sources said the government is in no hurry to implement the report, particularly some of its key recommendations, as these could have significant political ramifications. Importantly, the government is in no mood to take any chances that could adversely affect the Centre-state relations. Already there are sharp differences between the home ministry and the J&K...

    Posted 380 days ago.

    Relatives demand fresh probe into Kashmir unmarked graves

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    Naseer Ganai SRINAGAR, June 4: The J&K State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has received a petition asking it to reinvestigate 2,683 FIRs regarding unmarked graves. The Association of Parents of Disappeared Peoples (APDP), a human rights group which filed the petition, said in a statement:  'We have received 2,683 FIRs from the Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora districts of North Kashmir. 'We are (trying) to secure information about similar FIRs from the other 17 districts of the...

    Posted 380 days ago.

    Kashmir Interlocutors' report: Half-hearted, half-baked

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    Hilal Mir In 1964, in an article, Jayaprakash Narayan argued that India had a responsibility to keep its promise and allow Kashmiris to exercise their right to self-determination. In another article, in reply to blistering criticism of the first, he dismissed fears that India will disintegrate if Kashmir seceded. His suggestion was bound to evoke such a response, but it demonstrates that 50 years ago some leaders were not queasy about discussing Kashmir outside the narrow confines of national...

    Posted 380 days ago.

    New Delhi to call all-party meet on Kashmir panel report

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    NEW DELHI, May 31: The government Thursday said it plans to call an all-party meet on the report of the Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir and urged the political parties to have an informed debate on the issue. "We plan to have an all-party meet after a few workshops across the country are conducted by the interlocutors... we want an informed debate on the report before the government takes a view," Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here. The three interlocutors -- eminent journalist Dileep...

    Posted 383 days ago.