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Mehmooda lost her husband Shahnawaz Ahmed Mir, a driver, in a road accident at Udhampur in 2009. Mehmooda was left with a daughter and two sons. Her younger son Amir is mentally challenged.

First her house was razed and then her 14-year old son was detained by police, Mahmooda, a widow, screamed while requesting for the release of her son.
“First the government forces destroyed my house and then my son Faisal was detained. What is our fault, why did they make us homeless?” asked Mehmooda, crying inconsolably.

Mehmooda lost her husband Shahnawaz Ahmed Mir, a driver, in a road accident at Udhampur in 2009. Mehmooda was left with a daughter and two sons. Her younger son Amir is mentally challenged.
Near the debris of the house people were collecting money for this poor family and little Amir was searching for his toys.
Mehmooda returned from police station Tral after failing to get her son released. At Aripal thousands of people were waiting for her. “Don’t worry everything will be alright. These are testing times from God,” people consoled Mehmooda near her razed house.
Recalling the horrors of the gunfight at her house, she said: “On the snowy Saturday morning a masked army soldier entered into my house and asked about the presence of a militant. I denied because I knew there was none except me and my children. Within no time forces opened fire and asked us to vacate.”
“I assured them that there was no militant inside but they did not listen to my pleas and destroyed our house. They deliberately razed my house and eventually could not find any militant,” said Mehmooda.
She accused the forces of ruining the life of a widow. “I don’t have any source of income apart from a petty amount which I get for working as a sweeper. My husband has died and my little children are now homeless,” she rued.
Mehmooda’s nephew Asif Ahmed Mir said, “Had the forces began the operation with regular searches, things wouldn’t have been worse for this downtrodden family. They took the 14 year old boy into custody and forced him to make a statement that there was a militant hiding in his house.”
A police official however said a militant was present in the house who escaped.

The Story Was Published in Greater Kashmir Largest Circulated Daily Of Jammu Kashmir

Says waving of black flags a ploy of Indian agencies, ‘Mirwaiz trying to unite people, but vested interest want to divide us’

‘Mehbooba’s hands drenched with blood, don’t allow her to enter houses of martyrs’

Srinagar: Condemning the recent Jamia Masjid incident were ISIS flags were waived by masked youth, Hizb ul Mujahideen’s field operational commander Riyaz Naikoo on Sunday said that ISIS flags are being waved at the behest of Indian agencies and youth are being mislead. “India has long been trying to break us and now it has come under the guise of Islam. Youth don’t understand that it’s a ploy by Indian agencies to defame our movement,” Naikoo is being heard in a audio message viral on social media network.

According to KNO, Naikoo is also heard saying that people should be aware of such conspiracies. “We are an emotional nation. We should use our mind to understand enemies plot, ” he said, adding that waving of ISIS flags is equal to going against the freedom movement and to ditch the blood of martyrs.
“War is but strategy. One has to use emotions and well as mind in it. One has to decide what’s to be done and what not, ” he said, while accusing people waving ISIS flags of trying to connect kashmir freedom movement with Global terror network.

“There are people with vested interests who are pushing it. When we are alive they call us murtads but when we embrace martyrdom they appear in our funerals with flags,” He is heard saying.
He also said that at one hand Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is trying to unite people for the just cause but these people with vested intrests want to divide us.
Naikoo also asked people not to let former chief Minister Mehbooba mufti enter the houses of martyrs.

“As elections approach she is visiting martyrs families. It’s a drama. Her hands are drenched with blood. She is the same person who said that ‘those killed were not there to buy toffees’, ” he said.
“I urge people to throw her out from their houses and don’t let her in,” Naikoo is heard saying. The veracity of the clip couldn’t be verified.(KNO)

Srinagar: Waking up to prevent the weapon snatching incidents, the police have seized four weapons of the PSOs of BJP leader Altaf Thakur at his official Dalgate residence.

Sources told KNO that on January 3, the police party led by SDPO Nehru Park police station entered the official residence at Dalgate and seized four weapons of his PSOs who had gone to have dinner.

“I have now shot a letter to Governor SP Malik, seeking a fresh security cover. At present, I have no security at all,” Thakur told KNO. The move comes in the wake of weapon snatching incident at the official residence of Congress leader Muzaffar Parray at Jawahar Nagar government quarters (J37).

Four PSOs of Parray were suspended from the service for direction of duty.” A series of steps have been taken to prevent the weapon loot or weapon snatching incidents by the Police,” he said.(KNO)

Srinagar: People’s Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone Sunday said the PDP MLCs elected “with the support” of BharatiyaJanta Party, should resign if the PDP feels their “power-sharing pact” with the BJP was a “sin”.
“If the PDP is really peeved with the BJP and want to atone for its sins, then they should ask their MLCs to resign because they are part of a sin since they have been elected by the collective vote of the BJP and the PDP,” Sajad said on the sidelines of a function organised by the party to welcome former MLA Tangmarg Muhammad Abbas Wani into the party fold.

Sajad said there is no question of the PC entering into a pre-poll alliance with any party. “We have already made it clear that we will fight on all 87 seats,” he said.
He also lashed out at the NC and the PDP, saying “they are responsible for the bloodshed and the massacres carried out in Kashmir after the outbreak of armed conflict.”
Lone said the NC and the PDP are “hoodwinking” the people in the name of protecting interests of Kashmiris. “They were telling the people one month ago that they have joined hands for the protection of Article 35A. The case of Article 35A is yet to be heard by the Supreme Court but they have started abusing each other,” he said.

Welcoming Abbas into the party, Lone said that Abbas was a “victim of elitism” and the PDP never forgave him for winning election.
“If (In PDP) you are not an elite, you cannot become MLA. I am witness to the fact that how he was persecuted by his party ministers for winning the election,” he said.
Sajad said Abbas would get due respect and position in the party. “Ours is not a party of elites, it is a party of commoners. I assure him that we will walk shoulder to shoulder to bring change in the State,” he said.
In 2014 Assembly polls, Abbas had defeated chief of Democratic Party Nationalist Ghulam Hassan Mir.
Speaking on the occasion, Abbas said that MLAs were “ignored and humiliated” by the ministers during the PDP-led rule.
“I often raised the issues of discrimination with the MLAs on the floor of the Assembly. I even suggested to the MLAs that we should form a coordination committee for redress of grievances of the MLAs,” he said.
Abbas became the fourth former MLA to join PC after dissolution of the Assembly last month following PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and PC chief SajadGani Lone separately staked claims for forming government in the state.
Before Abbas’s entry , prominent Shia leader and minister in the previous PDP-led government Imran Raza Ansari, ex-MLA ZadibalAbid Ansari and ex- MLA Bakir Rizvi joined the party.

Srinagar: Failure to curb infiltration from across the Line of Control and putting a check on local recruitment of youth in militant groups remain a constant source of worry for security agencies in militancy-hit Jammu Kashmir, officials said Sunday.
Analysing the trends of 2018, it has been seen that infiltration figures continue to remain unchanged as around 140 militants successfully sneaked into the Kashmir valley, majority of whom are believed to be of Jaish-e-Muhammad group, they said.
Although around 110 militants were killed during infiltration, the successful number of crossovers continues to worry the security agencies.
During recent meetings of Army and BSF officials, it has been brought to the notice that the counter infiltration grid needs to be further strengthened as militants may try and sneak in during the peak winters as well.
“It is not only the Line of Control, which stretches from Poonch in Jammu to Kupwara in Kashmir, but also international border, which has been exploited by the militant groups,” said a senior security official on condition of anonymity.
The Army and the BSF have been maintaining that they have been able to substantially curb infiltration, but their assertions were negated by the arrest of some of the militants during 2018 who spoke about bringing in militant groups successfully, the official said.
According to the officials in the know of the security situation in the State, around 130 foreign militants were still active in the Kashmir valley, who were mainly tasked to impart training to local youth, who were lured into the militant ranks and files.
Besides infiltration, inability to check flow of local youth to the militancy fold continues to worry the security agencies.
While local recruitment crossed the 100 mark from four districts of south Kashmir, a careful analysis of south Kashmir shows that 104 local militants from this area had been killed during the last year, showing that the area was dominated with more numbers of local militants.
The year gone by saw the maximum number of local militants killed in the region which accounted for over 250 militant killings in last five years.
Considered a highly politically-sensitive area of the Valley, south Kashmir has virtually turned into a breeding ground for militants with many youth joining their rank and file or becoming their sympathisers.
The area has seen a better intelligence network of militants, assistance of people to local militants, heavy turnout at the funerals of militants and stone-pelting at the government forces even during gunfights.
Comprising four districts – Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian – south Kashmir has been on the boil ever since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen’s poster boy Burhan Wani in July 2016.
The intelligence network of the militant groups, which had ended in mid-1990s, is understood to have revived again and the militants come to know about the advancement of the government forces, giving them an advantage to flee the area, the officials said. PTI

Srinagar: From last some days a twitter account in the name of JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik is being circulated by some unknown person there have been some attempts like these previously too we want to confirm that JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has till date no official Twitter account and all these twitter messages and accounts including the one in question does not belong to Yasin Malik. Please be aware of this. if and when JKLF chairman will join Twitter,we will officially inform everyone
we hereby also want to give a message to friends running these twitter accounts to please delete these accounts in the best interest of Freedom movement and JKLF.

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik on Friday said that their doors are open for youth to highlight their grievances or to give their suggestion on taking Kashmir movement forward.

Addressing congregational prayers at historic Jamia Masjid, JRL said it was youth who are sacrificing their lives for right to self-determination.

“We appeal youth not to get swayed with something (ISIS) that is being Internationally condemned by all section of the society rather than raise their concerns with pro-freedom leaders,” JRL said.

JRL said youth are welcome to visit home of Geelani or Mirwaiz to putforth their grievences and suggestions.

Srinagar— According to MeT official says Moderate to heavy snowfall predicted in Kashmir valley during next 72 hours.

“Widespread moderate to heavy snowfall in Kashmir & rains in plains of Jammu division most likely from this evening to 6 Jan with peak on 5 Jan. Some places may receive heavy snowfall which may affect surface & air traffic mainly on 5 Jan, Director MeT Sonam Lotus said.

Srinagar: Indian Meteorological department has predicted Light snow and rainfall over the state for next 24 hours.

The Indian MeT department has also said that there will be isolated to widespread rain and snow on 4th and 5th of this month.

Srinagar will witness moderate rain during night of 4th January with temperatures around 8 degree° C to -3 degree° C during day and night respectively, MeT official told Valley Media Service.

As per the forecast, Jammu region will also experience light rainfall with minimum and maximum temperatures at 20 and 10°C respectively.

Mercury will dip to -12 tomorrow in Leh as per the report.

There is no warning issued for the state of Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours by Indian MeT department.(VMS)