Srinagar: Senior National Conference Leader and party general secretary Ali Mohammad has lashed out on the State Government over the killing of two civilians during an encounter at Frisal Kulgam.
Talking to KNS, MLA Khanyar Ali Mohammad Sagar said that this government is based on hallow slogans and lies. It failed miserably to safeguard the lives and property of the Kashmiri people.
He condemned the killings of two civilians and wounding many at Frisal area in Kulgam today and said that the Chief Minister of State Mehbooba Mufti claimed that she has ordered the forces in Unified Command meeting to restrain while dealing with civilians in Kashmir.
“Mehbooba Mufti said that in Unified Command meeting she has ordered the forces to restrain at maximum level while dealing with civilians, but today’s incident showed the reality,” Sagar told KNS.
He ridiculed the assurances of Mehbooba Mufti that civilians will be secured in such times. He asked why the forces were not following the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
He said that the scores of other civilians were injured, many of them seriously, is a testimony that the ‘promise of restraint’ that the government uses in its rhetoric is just a prank to befool Kashmiris.
Sagar demanded immediately constitutes an independent and time bound enquiry team to put the facts right into how and why the civilians were was killed. (KNS)
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Sagar ‘ridicules’ CM’s assurance; ‘maximum restrain’ Demands judicial probe
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Resistance leaders calls for shutdown on Monday ‘Kulgam Chaloo” on Feb 15’
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have called a complete shutdown on February 13 and “Kulgam Chaloo” on February 15 against the civilian kennings by the Indian forces and police.
In a statement issued to KNS, leaders strongly condemned the use of brute force against civilians in Frisal Kulgam and termed forces action as worst kind of state terrorism and said that such merciless acts will never be tolerated and we are obliged to resent and raise our voice against state sponsored terrorism.
Meanwhile Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has supported the shutdown call of resistance leaders. (KNS) -
Kulgam encounter; Govt regrets loss of precious lives
Will find out circumstances that led to civilian killings: Naeem Akhtar
Srinagar: Expressing grief over the loss of human lives in Kulgam encounter today, the government said they will try to find out all the circumstances that led to the loss of civilians at the encounter site.
Talking to KNS, Minister for Education and government Spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said it is very regrettable that precious human lives were lost at the encounter site. “We will look into the matter and will try to find out all the circumstances that led to such a damage at the place”.
Naeem Akhtar also prayed for a speedy recovery of the injured. Akhtar said it is very regrettable that human lives were lost. “Four militants, two soldiers and two civilians were killed in the incident. We are deeply saddened over the incident”. Akhtar appealed the people of Kashmir to restore peace. (KNS) -
No curfew like restriction, but security measures taken for tomorrow: IGP Kashmir
Appeals people to maintain law and order
Srinagar: Amid the Joint Resistance Leaders shutdown call, there will be no curfew like restriction tomorrow across the Kashmir, however the necessary security arrangement has been discussed and all precautionary measures will be taken to maintain the law and order.
Inspector General of Police for Kashmir, Syed Javaid Mujtaba Geelani told KNS that, all necessary measures will be taken to maintain law and order and deployment will be placed to keep vigil.
“There will be no curfew or restriction in Kashmir, but all necessary steps have been taken to keep calm,” IGP Kashmir Syed Javaid Mujtaba Geelani said.
Appealing to the people of Kashmir to maintain peace, IGP said that people are requested not to pay any heed to the rumours and maintain calmness to avoid any untoward situation.
He said that JK police is to provide security the residents and people can sought any type of help fort their security.
The Joint Resistance Leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have called a complete shutdown on February 13 and “Kulgam Chaloo” on February 15against the killings of two civilians during a gunfight in Frisal village of Kulgam district earlier today, triggering protests and clashes.
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A storm is building up in favour of Cong-SP alliance in UP, says Salman Nizami
DADRI: Senior Congress Leader Salman Nizami, addressed nine rallies in Dadri (UP). While addressing the public, Nizami said a storm is building up in favour of Congress-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Priyanka Gandhi. It’s going to get two third majority in 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, not only Dadri, in the entire length and breath of UP, the mood is overwhelmingly anti-BJP. He said, Demonetisation is a major issue. Rising unemployment, the condition of farmers and loss of crops are some other major issues. Miseries that people faced due to note ban are fresh in mind and they want to teach a lesson to the BJP in this election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no achievement to take to people. The poor are the worst sufferers during the tenure of this government. The BJP has always tried to polarize people. Alliance will stop the polarization in Uttar Pradesh. He further said Dadri, the epicenter of Hindutva forces; people are fed up of communal politics, they yearn for change, development. In his public meetings Nizami reassured people in Dadri that no vile force in India can harm them or belittle their respect. He further said, Every street, every caste, every community. All are saying they are fed up with BJP’s polarising rant, no work. Huge support is for SP-Cong in Dadri. -
Mirwaiz blessed with boy
Srinagar: Moderate separatist leader and chairman of a Hurriyat Conference faction Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was today blessed with a baby boy.As the news broke on Internet, the social media here was awash with the congratulatory messages with some announcing the arrival of heir apparent to the Mirwaiz dynasty.The news about the birth of the baby boy was first announced by Mirwaiz’s media advisor Shahid-ul-Islam on the social networking site, Facebook.“Mirwaiz Saheb blessed with a baby boy today early morning at a private hospital in Srinagar,” Shahid wrote on the Facebook.With the birth of the baby boy today, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has become the father of a third child. He already has two daughters Maryam, 8 and Zainab, 6.
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Kashmiri Youth Led ‘Team India’ Wins ‘Spirit Award’ in USA
SRINAGAR: A snow-sculpting Indian team led by Baramulla-based youth, Zahoor Din Lone, has won “Spirit Award” at the 27th International Snow Sculpture Championship, held at Breckenridge, USA from January 24, 2017.
The ‘Team India’ comprised of four members as per the championship rules.
The four artists/snow sportsperson to represent team India are Zahoor Din Lone, Sunil Kushwaha, Ravi Prakash, and Mridul Kumar Upadhyay.
This is for the first time when a team from India is participating in any international snow sports championship.
This year sixteen teams from around the world — China, Finland, Germany (Theil), Great Britain (Annaly), Iceland, India (Callisto), Italy, Mexico, Mongolia (Erdene), Mongolia (Tserendash), Sweden, Turkey, USA-Breckenridge, USA-Loveland, USA-Vermont, USA-Wisconsin (Tomczak) — began their work of hand-carving 25 ton blocks of snow in Breckenridge, Colorado of United States.
While talking to a local news gathering agency, PTK, from United States, Zahoor Din Lone said that they were proud to represent India at an international platform.
“This is like a dream come true to represent India in Snow sports championship as India has never participated in this sport,” he said.
However, he added, “the team managed their requirements at their own, besides arrangements by the championship organizers. Once we made headlines in the televisions and newspapers by qualifying for the championship, people were promising support, but once we approached them, especially government authorities, they keep passing the buck.”
Lone added that the even he himself awaits any logistic support from the Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council as they assured the same earlier.
“We were supported and encouraged by the organizers and other teams a lot. We won hearts with our hard work, passion, dedication, nature and positive attitude. We tried to promote India as not only a warm country but a perfect destination for snow based tourism too and we could do that through qualifying in this international Championship,” he told PTK.
Jubilant after receiving the award, the team has decided to practice more so as to improve their art and focus more on international snow sculpting Championships around the world.
“Also, we’ll use our experience to promote snow sculpting and snow-based tourism in India through training of snow Sculpting and organizing national and international snow sculpting Championships in India if given proper support,” the team adds.
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Woman ‘raids’ Srinagar hospital, catches doc husband with paramour
SRINAGAR: A woman ‘raided’ the room of her husband in the Bone and Joint Surgery Hospital at Barzulla here and caught him with his paramour.
The woman suddenly stormed into the room of her husband, a doctor, “like a commando” on Friday morning, hospital sources told Early Times.
“She knocked the door of her husband’s room. The moment door opened, she jumped at the other woman and starting pulling off her hair,” sources said. This was when the medico tried to rescue his ‘girlfriend’. Now it was husband’s turn to get some blows. His wife slapped him several times and subsequently started kicking him left right and centre.
Taking advantage of the couple’s fight, the other woman managed to flee from the spot.
Sources said the angry woman told her husband that she had been tracking his movement for quite some time, and today her worst fears came true. “So you leave early for office to date this witch,” the woman reportedly told her husband before thrashing him with sandals.Brave lady!
The angry woman said she had been tracking her husband’s movement for quite some time. “So you leave early for office to date this witch,” the woman reportedly told her husband before thrashing him with her sandals.Sources said some hospital employees tried to rescue the doctor, but in vain. The doctor’s clothes were torn in the incident.
It was reliably learnt that the incident occurred in the morning hours ahead of opening of the offices at 10:30 am. Sources said the woman had cultivated some informers. “She had bribed some hospital staff and they informed her about her husband’s ‘extracurricular’ activities,” sources said.
While the woman wanted to file a police case against her husband, some hospital employees pacified her.
Sources said the hospital superintendent has taken a serious note of the issue and subsequently called a meeting of his staff telling them that hospital should strictly be treated as workplace and not as any “dating point.”
“One man’s mistake has spoiled reputation of the entire hospital. What will people think about us now?” said a senior medico working in the hospital.
Despite repeated attempts the hospital superintendent could not be contacted for comments.Early Times Report
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India goes gaga over Srinagar woman in SRK’s selfie
Srinagar: A Srinagar woman has become a social media star after being captured in Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s selfie.
The king of Bollywood was recently in Pune for promotions of his latest film Raees. The actor drew crowds of thousands and shared pictures with his excited fans on his social media accounts.
One such selfie of the actor went viral on social media and not because of SRK himself but because of a woman (pictured below) standing in the front row.
The woman in a green t-shirt ended up becoming the talk of social media with many going gaga over her good looks.
Comments underneath the picture had people wanting to know more about the girl, so BuzzFeed did everyone a favour and tracked her down.
The girl was identified as 21-year-old Saima Hussain, a third-year Symbiosis Institute of Design. Originally from Srinagar, Hussain is currently in Pune for the duration of her course.
Speaking to Buzzfeed, Hussain spoke about the overwhelming nature of viral fame and how she was alerted by her best friend that she had become “internet famous”. “I thought she was joking at first but then I started getting calls and messages from everyone. The moment I checked for myself, it felt so surreal,” she added.
Hussain said her social media fame was sheer luck further as she was helping manage the festival that SRK attended in Pune. “I didn’t expect to be in the front row because of the insane number of people present. My friend helped me get through the crowd and I was lucky that the heads for the fest were allowed to stand in the front row,” she added.
The 21-year-old added that she’s still trying to navigate through her new found fame, as she now has people randomly trying to talk to her and she is “still pretty overwhelmed”
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Soldier vainly waits 4 days for state help, treks 10 hours to carry mother’s body home
SRINAGAR: When the state and army did not respond to his calls for help, a soldier trekked a snow-covered, avalanche-prone route for 10 hours to carry his mother’s body to his native place in Karnah.
The video of the men carrying body on a makeshift coffin through the treacherous route has gone viral on social networking sites.
In the video, the mourners are desperately calling for help and at the same time accusing the government of callousness.
Sakina Begum, mother of Mohammad Abbas, who is a soldier currently posted at the Pathankot army base, reportedly died of cardiac arrest on the intervening night of January 27 and 28 in Pathankot.
Since then, Abbas had appealed for a chopper lift to carry her body home.
Amid bad weather conditions, Sakina’s body was stuck in Rangwar village of Baramulla district for four days. As no help came from any quarter, the family had to make the trek through the dangerous, snow-covered Sadhna pass.
The villagers began helping the mourners by clearing off snow and making a passage for their journey. Abbas had to trek a distance of nearly 50 km for 10 hours before he could make it home. The snow, at most places, was six feet deep and is prone to avalanches.
As many as 20 soldiers died in the region due to snow avalanches recently.
The family claimed the district administration had promised a helicopter would be arranged to take them home. But, they had to tow the dead body all along the way till the rites were finally performed last night.
Earlier, the residents have expressed severe hardships due to the accumulation of snow in the area snapping all communication with many villages in the border region.
An army spokesperson, however, refuted the reports that army did not help the soldier, stating “all assistance for the transportation of mortal remains of the jawan’s mother, keeping the snow conditions in mind, was made available by the unit of Jawan as well as other army units en route.” (Kashmir Reader)