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  • Kulgam Encounter: One more militant killed, toll reaches to 3, operation ON

    Srinagar, April 04: One more militant has been killed taking toll to 3 in an ongoing encounter between militants and government forces in Hardmanguri area of Khur Batpora of South Kashmir’s Kulgam District on Saturday.

    As per the official sources to GNS, one more militant has been killed taking toll to 3, however their identification is yet to be ascertained.

    A senior police officer told GNS that this group of militants was involved in killing 3 civilians recently.

    He further said that the operation is in its final stage and would be over soon.

    Earlier a joint team of 34RR and Police Kulgam launched a cordon and search operation in an orchard of Hardmanguri Batapora after having specific information about presence of some militants in the area.(GNS)

  • Mosques remain open in Pakistan as coronavirus cases rise to nearly 2,500

    The mosques made announcement urging people to pray at home, but some people defied the instruction and visited mosques, according to reports.

    PTI

    Several mosques remained opened on Friday across Pakistan and people offered prayers there despite a government ban on big congregational gatherings in order to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-19 that has killed 37 people and infected nearly 2,500 others in the country.

    The Sindh government had announced curfew like restriction from 12 noon to 3 p.m. to stop people from visiting mosques, while the Punjab government had issued fatwa for people to offer prayer in their homes.

    The mosques made announcement urging people to pray at home, but some people defied the instruction and visited mosques, according to reports. Some clerics also encouraged people to attend prayers in mosques.

    “The government and police are making statements to create a sense of fear. Nothing will happen. Karachi is a city of 20 million, the government cannot implement its decision in every nook and cranny, the prayer leader of the Jamia Mosque Quba told The Express Tribune.

    Majority of mosques in Karachi followed government orders. However, some continued to hold regular prayers.

  • Domicile Law: ‘Order drafted by a Section Officer  who failed in his law degree and absorbed in govt service on compassionate grounds.”

    Srinagar, April 4: When political leaders across Jammu and Kashmir are expressing concern against the new domicile law, Intellectual and former Advisor to deceased Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Amitabh Matoo Friday said that the draft regarding the domicile law has been prepared by a Section Officer who probably failed in his law degree.

    Under the domicile law, anyone who has resided in J&K for 15 years or has studied in the state for seven years, and appeared in either the Class 10 or the Class 12 examinations, will be eligible for domicile certificates. This would allow them to apply for gazetted and non-gazetted government jobs.

    Amitabh Matoo who declined to talk over the matter to Kashmir News Trust in a tweet said: “It (Domicile Law) is an order drafted by a Section Officer who probably failed his law degree and was then absorbed in government service under SRO-43 on compassionate grounds.”

    His tweet was liked by people both hailing from Kashmir as well as Jammu while most of the netizens hailed him for his outspokenness.

    “But what about those higher-ups who approved that draft in chain of command,” asked Ramesh Mehta. Another said that both people of Kashmir and Jammu should get united over the matter which is totally in discriminatory in nature.

    Pertinently, people of Jammu and Kashmir and the politicians cutting across the party lines have expressed concern against the new domicile law.

    Yesterday, National Panthers Party leader Harsh Dev Singh staged a protest against this domicile law terming it anti-people and a source of depriving original inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir of their livelihood.

    Almost every political leader including Omar Abdullah, Syed Altaf Bukhari, Iltija Mufti have castigated Government of India over the new domicile law.

    “J&K’s new domicile law is part of a diabolical demographic project that began on 5th August with Article 370 abrogation. Imposing it in times of a global pandemic reveals a callous & paranoid mindset wilfully violating consent to ensure subjugation, wrote Iltija Mufti adding that they are in a maddening rush to appropriate our land & resources. Wonder why they don’t show the same sense of urgency to save lives of thousands of Kashmiris jailed in & outside J&K?”

    Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wrote: “Talk about suspect timing. At a time when all our efforts & attention should be focused on the #COVID outbreak, the government slips in a new domicile law for J&K. Insult is heaped on injury when we see the law offers none of the protections that had been promised.”

    In the next tweet, he said: ” You can imagine how hollow the domicile law is from the fact that even the new party created with Delhi’s blessings, whose leaders were lobbying in Delhi for this law, have been forced to criticise the domicile law.”

    The order in this regard was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Jammu and Kashmir. The domiciles include children of those central government officials; All India services officers, officials of public sector undertaking and autonomous body of the central government, public sector banks, officials of statutory bodies, officials of central universities and recognized research institutes of the central government who have served in Jammu and Kashmir for a total period of ten years. The order has reserved fourth class jobs for residents of J&K. (KNT)

  • Centre amends JK Domicile law order ‘All Govt Jobs reserved for J&K’ residents

    Srinagar, Apr 04: The Government of India on Friday late evening amended it’s order on Domicile rights in the matter of employment for Jammu and Kashmir reserving all the government jobs of all levels exclusively for the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
    The attendum to its previous order was issued by the Ministry of home affairs after an uproar by all the political parties especially Jammu Kashmir Apni Party whose president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today had apprised the national security advisor Ajit Doval and the union home minister Amit Shah about the short comings in the order.
    As reported already by the Kashmir Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) , Bukhari was assured by the home minister that the lacunas identified by him in the domicile order would be removed and the law would be made exclusive in the matter of employment for the Jammu and Kashmir residents.
    The developments that took place in Delhi on Friday with regard to the domicile law is said to be in continuation of meetings that took place between Bukhari led JKAP delegation and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on March 14-15, 2020.(KINS)

  • Government extends high speed internet (4G) curbs till April 15

    Jammu and Kashmir Government extends high speed internet (4G) curbs till April 15. Low speed 2G internet services to remain continue in Jammu and Kashmir till April 15.

  • Altaf Bukhari appraises NSA Ajit Doval, HM Amit Shah on shortcomings of domicile order

    Srinagar, April 03: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukahri on Friday apprised union home minster Amit Shah and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval regarding the shortcomings in newly issued order on domicile law in the matter of employment for Jammu and Kashmir.
    Sources told KNS that Bukhari expressed his strong reservations with regard to various sections of the order demanding amendments therein as per the aspirations of the people of the Jammu and Kashmir
    The JKAP president strongly pressed for removal of the clause in the order by virtue of which the employment has been restricted for JK residents up to the level IV. Bukhari has demanded that all the levels of government employment both non gazetted and gazetted posts be filled up by the eligible amongst the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir at district, divisional and state carders .
    Sources told KNS that Bukhari is in Delhi and is vigorously p pursuing for the requisite changes in the new domicile order as per the aspiration of people of Jammu and Kashmir. (KNS)

  • COVID-19: Flustering generosity Why to expose details of those in need?

    Srinagar, Apr 03: Amid the prevalent Covid 19 pandemic claiming precious lives with each passing day, some elements in the society infested with the misanthropic characteristics are out for aggrandizement of self.

    On social media in Kashmir, there are pictures and videos of people brandishing philanthropy in broad day light highlighting how much do they care for the people living in the squalid conditions. However, in this process of self-promotion, these nefarious miscreants expose the details of those in need, pushing their personal helplessness’s into a full public gaze.

    According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), every single person who are out to ‘help’ the needy people have been seen clicking pictures with those whom they have been providing essential commodities including food stuff amid continuous lockdown and restrictions in wake of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

    Not only the NGOs, but those who are affiliated with the religious organizations as well as the politicians are involved in the act, which only expose the details of needy people irrespective of their gender.

    However, such a ‘trend’ to help needy is even against the principals of every religion including Islam and as such the charity is only becoming an advertisement.

    One of the religious clerics from Srinagar said that “Islam doesn’t permit us to expose the details of needy. We are bound to hide the details of those in need.”

    The religious cleric further stated that those who are giving charity should also not disclose themselves before anyone. “We need to respect the needy people. At this point of time, they (needy people) need ration and other facilities. But, those who are providing these facilities to them are not in need to take pictures,” he said.

    Echoing similar views, another religious cleric while talking to—KNO appealed well off people as well as the NGOs and others not to upload the pictures and videos of those in need –(KNO)

  • LPG cylinders can be carriers of deadly Covid, warn experts

    ‘Advise immediate sterilization at riffling stations’

    Srinagar, Apr 03: The cooking gas cylinders can be carriers of deadly Covid-19 and that there is a dire need of following a proper mechanism while handling the LPG cylinders by both—supplying agency and the consumers, health experts stressed Friday.

    They said that since LGP cylinders are made of Iron and that the Covid-19 may remain attached to LPG cylinder for at least eight to nine hours, it has become mandatory for the both the supplying agents of LPG that include Indane, Hindustan Petroleum (HP), JAKFED etc to follow certain important guidelines.

    Talking to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jagmoan Singh Raina, who heads Kashmir Gas Agency, that distributes Indane LPG cylinders across Kashmir, said that he has provided personal protection equipment (PPE) to all his men including those who are part of door to door distribution of cylinders. “I have asked my employees to ensure proper handwashing after collection of three to four cylinders,” he said, adding that there is a great risk in transmitting the virus as his employees take cylinders from homes and also give them a refilled one.

    “To my knowledge, the gas cylinder which is made of iron, can keep the virus alive on its surface for eight to nine hours. I have requested the Indane Company to ensure sterilization of every cylinder during its refilling process,” Raina said. “There is lot of human intervention from refilling of a cylinder to the stage it reaches consumer’s home. So the chances of transmission of virus is very high.”

    He said that every single day, thousands of LPG cylinders are distributed to consumers across Kashmir alone from the Indane Company. Head of Department at Chest Disease hospital Srinagar told KNO, said that each and every cylinder is must to go through proper sanitization process. “The procedure to sanitize the LPG cylinder should take place from the company itself and till it reaches the consumers,” the doctor said—(KNO)

  • COVID-19 | Hadith of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

    Following are some relevant hadiths:

    1) QUARANTINE is a Prophetic ﷺ advice.

    “Run away from the leper (the one with contagious ailment) as you would run away from a lion.”
    (Bukhari Volume 7, Book 71, Number 608)

    2) SOCIAL DISTANCING is a Prophetic ﷺ command.

    “Those with contagious diseases should be kept away from those who are healthy.”
    Bukhaari (6771) and Muslim (2221)

    3) TRAVEL BAN is a Prophetic ﷺ teaching.

    “Do not enter a land where the plague (contagious ailment) has broken out; don’t leave from where it has broken out”
    Bukhaari (5739) and Muslim (2219)

    4) DON’T HARM OTHERS, if you have symptoms.

    The Prophet ﷺ said: “Do not cause harm or return harm.”
    Sunan Ibn Mājah (2340)

    5) STAYING HOME is a Prophetic ﷺ teaching.

    “Those who stay at home to protect themselves and others are under the protection of Allah.”
    Musnad Ahmed, Saheeh

    6) If necessary, HOUSE IS A MASJID.

    The Prophet ﷺ said: “The entire earth has been made a Masjid, except graveyards and washrooms.”
    Tirmidhi (al-Salaah, 291)

    7) THERE’S CURE; patience is the virtue

    The Prophet ﷺ said “There is no disease that Allah sent without sending for it a cure.“
    Bukhari (Volume 7, Book 71, Number 582)

    8) Let’s TREAT; ALLAH WILL CURE

    The Prophet ﷺ said: “Every disease has a cure. If a cure is applied to the disease, it is relieved by the permission of Allah.”
    Muslim (2204)

    9) FACE MASKING is a Prophetic ﷺ teaching.

    Prophet (ﷺ) while sneezing, would cover his face with his hand or with his garment,”
    Abu Dawud; Tirmidhi (Book 43, Hadith 2969), Sahih

    10) WASH HANDS every time you enter home.

    The Prophet ﷺ said: “Cleanliness is half of faith.”
    Muslim (223)

    11) HOME QUARANTINE is a Prophetic ﷺ advice

    “The plague (contagion) patient who remains in his home with patience and expectation of reward, knowing that nothing will befall him other than Allah’s decree will attain the reward or a martyr“
    Musnad Aḥmad, Sahih also Bukhaari (2829) and Muslim (1914)

  • Altaf Bukhari meets Amit Shah in New Delhi

    Srinagar: J&K Apni Party president Syed Altaf Bukhari on Friday met Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi.

    Futher Details Awaited.