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  • RSS trying every weapon to occupy J&K: Joint Resistance

    Deeds of RSS testify words of Mohan Baghwat: Resistance leadership

    Srinagar: Commenting on the RSS chief Mohan Bagwat’s statement, that their country is a “Hindu Rashtra”, Joint resistance leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik said that this is not only the words but all their deeds and actions testify this statement. 

    In a statement issued to Kashmir Today, leaders said that we should be thankful to them as they, from time to time, veil off their deceitful face of so-called democracy and secularism and justify our movement. Pro-freedom leaders said that in Hindu Rashtra only Hindus can live and that is the reason all minorities particularly Muslims are forced to leave this country.
    They said that we cannot live in a country which claims to be the Hindu Rashtra. To safeguard our culture, race, ethnicity and especially our religion, we demand and fight for the freedom from India, which has been promised by India itself and accepted by the international community.
    Leaders said that fascist forces like RSS and others try every weapon in their armory to forcibly and military occupy this land—but people of Jammu and Kashmir have never accepted this unjust rule and its sovereignty, and are fighting the brute oppression for the last 70 years. Leaders said that although disputed nature of this land is accepted and acknowledged by international community—but haughtiness and lardiness of India has always backtracked from their own promises and forcibly muzzled every pro-freedom voice for the last 7 decades.
    Strongly criticizing the RSS demand to crush the freedom loving people with iron fist; leaders said that the local stooges have already done this even without anybody’s suggestions and they are building their castles over our dead bodies. Pro-freedom leaders said that local faces of this oppression, despite holding big degrees and claiming to be the legal experts, are more than happily playing as the mean and cunning stooges.
    They said that these belly slaves have such a lust of power, which they proudly act, shamelessly and outrageously to retain their illusionary and deceitful fame, at the cost of blood and flesh of their own people. They even do not hesitate to slaughter the whole nation to fulfill the ill and dirty designs of their allied partners in crime.
    Leaders said that calling the public uprising and protest, against the brutality of rulers, a joke, these beasts in human skin have placed themselves in line with the horehounds tyrants. Being legal luminaries and, so-called constitutional experts and in know of the realities about the Kashmir issue, these knowledgeable blinds side with the false and deceptive narrative of the armed occupier. They feel amused to willfully shield the bloodshed of innocents for the last so many decades.
    Resistance Leaders said that fascist forces need not to directly implement their communal and anti-Muslims agenda here in a Muslim populated land, so they always find these sellable faces, to speak and act on their behalf, encouraging the long list of Abdullas, Muftis, Beighs and Akhters who using their “scholarly” image to parrot their rhetoric. Leaders
    once gain cautioned these ironclads that no matter how long and dark the shadows of slavery and brutality are, they have to vanish in any case and the tyrants and fraudulents can’t stand the glory and glaze of truth and reality.
     

  • ‘Shift my husband from Kot-Balwal to Srinagar’

    I am poor, can’t afford to visit him to Jammu jail: Barkati’s wife

    Srinagar: Wife of pro-freedom leader, Moulana Sarjan Barkati, popularly known as “freedom chacha and Pied Piper of Kashmir”, for his peculiar way of sloganeering, today appealed the authorities especially Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti that her husband be shifted to Srinagar jail from Kot-Balwal jail Jammu.

    Barkati’s wife told over phone that her financial condition is very weak and she is not in a position to visit her husband to Jammu’s Kot-Balwal jail.

    Barkati was arrested on October 1 from Wanpoh area of south Kashmir when he was on the way to Arwani. He was immediately booked under Public Safety Act (PSA).

    She told that the recent rumors about “Barkati’s death under custody” forced her to hire a vehicle and visit Jammu in the dead of Saturday night, to see her husband. “He was alive, but has been beaten ruthlessly. He is ailing in the jail,” she said.

     “I along with my two sons want to visit him (Barkati) but our financial conditions don’t allow us,” she said.

    She appealed the authorities that on humanitarian grounds her husband be shifted to Srinagar jail, so that she could visit him frequently.

    Barkati a religious cleric from Shopian district and a senior leader of Ummat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, headed by Mirwaiz Qazi Yasir, rose to the prominence 

    Barkati was instrumental in organizing public rallies across South Kashmir in the on-going civilian uprising. He popularised “new forms of anti-India sloganeering” that went viral across Kashmir. Police had been conducting raids on Barkati’s house in Shopian until he was arrested.

    When contacted MLA Wachi Aijaz Ahmed Mir said he would take up the matter with the concerned authorities and the Chief Minister to do the needful about the shifting of Barkati from Jammu jail. (PTK)

  • Dark days ahead: ‘Wide gap between demand and supply of electricity: PDD Chief Engineer

    Srinagar: With the onslaught of winter, Kashmir Valley is bound to face a serious electricity crisis as according to Power Development Department against the 1400 mega watts (MW) of power required for Valley, PDD is only purchasing 1100 MW’s of electricity.

        “There is a wide gap between the demand and supply of electricity. The misuse of electricity has further added to our woes. Besides, due to prevailing situation, the department is unable to stop power pilferage,” Chief Engineer Power Development Department Bashir Ahmed Khan told news agency CNS.

        Khan alleged that people have been misusing electricity. “As we are unable to make inspections, some people are taking advantage and indulging in power theft. Most of the areas are reeling under darkness due to rampant use of electronic gadgets like heaters and boilers,” he said.

        According to reports most parts of the Valley reel under severe electricity shortage with no indication of improvement in the near future. Chief Engineer said the power distribution system in Kashmir is under tremendous stress due to overload. “We have decided to come up with latest power curtailment schedule. That is under process,” he said. However, he didn’t reveal for how many days in a week, there will be curtailment.

       Pertinently, students of class 10 and 12 classes in Kashmir are appearing in annual examinations nowadays. Besides common consumers, they (students) have been bearing the brunt of pesky power cuts. Reports said that the crisis has hit every section of society while even in metered areas the unscheduled power cuts are adding to the miseries of the common people. “On Sunday we didn’t see electricity the whole day. At 7pm, bulbs lit for only three minutes and then whole area reeled under darkness,” locals from Mehjoor Nagar Natipora said.

        Both in uptown and downtown areas of Srinagar city, people have been facing acute problems due to electricity crisis. “The crisis have not only hit the capital city but it is same everywhere. Hundreds of villages reel under darkness in North, Central and South Kashmir. We used to witness such a situation in Chillai Kalan but this time the crisis have hit the Valley much earlier,” said a group of persons from Shivpora Srinagar adding that power cuts are more frequent and extended during the evening hours.

        Reports of sever power crisis were received from Pulwama, Tral, Pampore, Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian, Ganderbal, Kangan, Budgam, Ticker, Sogam, Darpora, Kalaroos, Kralpora, Trehgam Andurgbugh in Lolab Kupwara, Handwara, Bandipora and Rafiabad, Ladoora, Delina, Sangrama, Baramulla,. (CNS)   

  • No heating arrangement in Kashmir hospitals, Patients are shivering with cold: DAK

    Srinagar: With the temperatures dipping below freezing point, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that patients in Kashmir hospitals face huge inconvenience due to lack of heating arrangement.

    In a statement issued to Kashmir Today, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan said patients are shivering with cold as heating systems of hospitals are not yet operational.
    The heating systems at SMHS, Chest-Disease, Lal Ded, GB Pant and other associated hospitals have not been started yet and patients suffer the consequences.
    The bone-chilling cold in hospitals is making life difficult for ailing patients.
    Cold conditions increase mortalities and morbidities in patients.
    Hospitals expose vulnerable patients to the risk of frigid conditions.
    Cardiac and Stroke patients in hospitals are at increased risk of death as cold thickens blood and constricts the arteries.
    The condition of Asthmatics and patients with Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases worsens in hospitals because of cold.
    The icy conditions in hospitals increase the risk of expectant mothers having premature delivery.
    Children and elderly are especially prone to hypothermia that can lead to respiratory and cardiac dysfunction and even death.
    Not only patients, but for hospital staff it becomes extremely difficult to work in icy conditions.
    The majority of the peripheral hospitals are without inbuilt central heating systems and they rely on traditional heaters which do harm than good to patients.
    The administrators of the hospitals are insensitive to the sufferings of patients and they enjoy in their cozy heated offices and they are least bothered with the miseries of people.

  • Private Schools’ Association urges Govt to decide fate of lower classes

    “Govt indecision on promotion or examination pushing students, schools, parents into uncertainty”

    Srinagar: Private Schools’ Association of Kashmir has urged the government to clear its stand on the fate of classes 1 to 9 and class 11, as there is no communication from government whether they will hold examination for these classes or approve ‘Provisional Promotion’ declared by the Private Schools.
    The Association said that the private schools decided to provide provisional promotion to the classes 1st to 9th and class 11 as a humane gesture, but government is maintaining a silence on the final decision. “We had taken a decision to provide provisional promotion to students as a measure to relieve them of uncertainty of academic session and the related stress,” said G N Var president PSAK in a statement.“But the government is maintaining a dangerous silence over the matter. Wherever we go to officials they say we don’t know.”
    The Association said that if government decides to go with the promotion then it will be a win-win situation for all and if it decides to go ahead with the examinations then we will also prepare accordingly.
    The Association said that it is not the matter of only six lakh private school students but equal number of students are in government schools too who too are facing the stressful situation. “The government is not taking a final call on the lower class examinations. It is irony that students are being made to suffer for the indecisiveness of the government,” said Var. “We took the decision of provisional promotion as private schools usually register 100 % pass percentage and examinations constitute just an evaluation/assessment to determine the merit. According to national policy and Right To Education Act no student can be detained upto class 8th, so providing promotion was natural.”
    The Association said that the government to remaining indifferent to the woes of students. “We are trying hard to bring some semblance to disturbed academic calendar, but we are not finding equal partners in government. They are more concerned with Class 10 and 12 examinations but other classes are equally important and we need to take a final call,” said Var. “We are at the end of the year and if a final decision is not taken soon, then it will become a huge problem for all of us.”
    The Association also appealed the Chief Minister to scrap the decision of order by which Class 8th examinations are being conducted by SIE (state institute of education). “Class 8th examinations are just regular examinations and there is no logic in entrusting its conduct to DIET. It is unnecessary burden on government, student and parents. Moreover our selection of books and scheme of evaluation is different. We appeal the government to revert back to old system wherein the examination was conducted by the respective schools,” said Var.
    The Association assured the students and parents that despite all odds, it won’t allow the lost of an academic year. “Situation is not conducive, government too is indecisive and not willing to cooperate and there are other problems, but we will do whatever is in our hands to minimize the damage to the student community,” said Var.

  • Mohan Bhagwat’s claim speaks of India’s insecurity on Kashmir: Er. Rashid

    ‘RSS’s rhetoric of India being a Hindu nation, vindicates Jinnah’s two nation theory’

    Srinagar: Rejecting RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s claims about J&K being India’s integral part, AIP Supremo and MLA Langate Er. Rashid today said that there can be nothing more than this Himalayan lie.

    According to AIP, while addressing various meetings in Handwara and adjoining areas, Er. Rashid said it needs not even to be told that J&K is not India’s integral part but disputed territory.

    He said, “Mohan Bhagwat’s cries in Jammu that J&K being India’s integral part, speaks of India’s in security on its stand on Kashmir. May Bhagwat ask why he needs not to cry about any other part of India of being India’s integral part?

    “Mohan Bhagwat’s claim of India being a Hindu nation, yet again vindicates stand of two nation theory and gives legitimacy to Ali Mohammad Jinnah’s deep desire for creation of Pakistan,” Er. Rasheed said.

    He appealed Muslims and secular forces in India to fight the fascist agenda of RSS and other radical forces and reiterated that Kashmiris will never succumb before India’s might.

    Er. Rasheed accused Mehbooba Mufti of providing a platform to RSS and other radical forces to abuse and defame Indian Muslims in general and Kashmiris in particular by entering into unholy alliance with BJP, despite knowing their notorious designs. (PTK)

  • National Conference dares Muzzafar Baig to unravel “conspiracy” hatched to kill Burhan

    “Probe by retired Supreme Court judge into Burhan killing must”
    Srinagar: National Conference here on Monday dared senior PDP leader and Member Parliament to unravel the “conspiracy” which according to him was hatched to overthrow Mehbooba government and has sought a judicial probe into Burhan’s killing by a supreme court judge to identify the guilty and punish them. 

    Senior National Conference leader and MLA Sonawari Mohammad Akbar Lone told KNS “since senior PDP leader and Member Parliament Muzaffar Hussain Baig claims to have full knowledge about the conspiracy hatch to kill Burhan for overthrowing Mehbooba Government, the sensitivity of the matter that PDP leader reveals all about this conspiracy immediately forthwith. The conspiracy concerns the security of the State and the survival of democratic institutions”.
    Saying the Baig being a top leader of the ruling party and representative of the people in the highest law making body (parliament) of the country should reveal all about the said conspiracy in the broader interests of the security of the State, Akbar Lone said the conspiracy once unraveled by Baig should be probed by a retired Supreme Court judge to identify the guilty and punish them. (KNS)

  • Mohan Bhagwat’s threats to Kashmiris childish: Yasin Malik

    PDP and RSS Meetings in Kashmir and Jammu and Similar Rhetoric of Both Against the Resistance Camp a Clear indication of The nexus Between Nagpur and PDP

    Srinagar: Terming the timing of RSS and PDP meetings as ‘dubious’, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Muhammad Yasin malik on Monday said that PDP and RSS meetings in Kashmir and Jammu and similar rhetoric of both against the resistance camp are a clear indication of the nexus between Nagpur and PDP.

    Terming Mohan Bhagwat’s threats to Kashmiris as childish, Malik in a statement issued to Kashmir Today said that Bhagwat should know that right from 1947 especially after the illegal military occupation by India, people of Jammu Kashmir have been witnessing and tolerating oppression and torture of India but have not surrendered before the forces of darkness and tyranny . 

    He said that Bhagwat should read history carefully and he will surely come to know that oppression, military might and forceful suppression of people’s voices have not succeeded in defeating the freedom movements of tiny oppressed nations.
    “If defeating oppressed nations would have been possible no nation including India would have achieved its freedom from outside occupation,” asserted Malik.
    Malik said that it was RSS chauvinist mindset that massacred lakhs of Muslims at Jammu in 1947 but massacre and oppressive acts like that could not eradicate the passion for freedom from the hearts and minds of people in Jammu Kashmir and till date this aspiration is alive and will keep so till the achievement of the desired goal.
    Terming the frequent visits and programs of RSS like chauvinist forces in Jammu, Pirpanjal and Chenab as ‘a conspiracy to intimidate Jammu region Muslims’, Malik said that PDP led regime by allowing and facilitating hateful politics and fascism are playing with fire and this deceptive politics will yield them nothing but shame.
    Terming the meeting of PDP in Kashmir on the same day when RSS was threatening Kashmiris from Jammu as clear indication of ugly nexus between PDP and RSS, Jailed JKLF chairman said that ironically both meetings chose to threat and malign resistance of Kashmiris.
    He said that it is not the resistance and acts of resistance in any form that are detrimental for Kashmiris but it is the deceitful politics of PDP like organizations that is harmful to the interests of Kashmiris.
    Malik said that PDP leaders claim that martyrdom of Burhan Wani was a conspiracy to dethrone their rule but people ask them that who hatched this conspiracy. “They’re in the government, their chief minister holds the portfolio of home minster and has unleashed a reign of terror against Kashmiris since the martyrdom of Burhan Shaheed and it were their forces who martyred Burhan,” he said.
    “Now if all that was a conspiracy then question arises that who hatched and implemented that conspiracy,” JKLF chief added.
    Malik said that resistance and means of resistance were a boon for this nation as these assured our national life and respect. “It is not the resistance and acts of resistance that are detrimental to the cause of this nation but it is the hypocritical politics and dubious character of pro-India politicians and rulers that is hurting the interests of the people of Jammu Kashmir,” added Malik.
    He said that “after the martyrdom of Burhan Wani it was PDP government that chose bullets and pellets to stop a people’s indigenous revolution and it was them whose bullets and pellets pierced the chests, heads and legs of hundreds of Kashmiris and are still hunting them.”
    Malik said that slowly but steadily this duplicity of PDP like pro-India organizations , their nexus with anti-Kashmir, anti-Muslim fascist forces is getting uncovered and their real faces and ugly politics are getting exposed before the common people of Jammu Kashmir.
     

     

  • 95% attendance recorded in incident free Class 12 exam on day one

    No untoward incident reported, congratulate people for coopn: DGP L&O

    Srinagar: As 95% attendance was here on Monday recorded in the incident free examination of class 12 on the day one across Kashmir, the Director General Police (Law & Order) Dr S.P Vaid confirmed that the incident free examinations were reported from all over the valley and congratulate the people for their cooperation in the conduct of examinations all over the valley.
    Reports said amid heightened security, at least 95 per cent of class 12 students appeared in the examinations on Monday. Officials told KNS that a huge contingent of forces including police and paramilitary troopers were deployed in and around the examination centres since the wee hours of this morning to ensure smooth conduct of examinations.
    Meanwhile, nearly 95 per cent of class 12 students appeared in the examinations today, officials said.
    They said that out of total 31964 students who were scheduled to appear in the examinations today, 30213 students sit in examinations at around 484 exam centres in the Valley.
    Officials informed that the highest number of participation of students was witnessed in South Kashmir Anantnag district. “At least 96 per cent of class 12 students appeared in the examination in South Kashmir’s Anantnag today which was followed by central Kashmir’s Srinagar district where more than 94 per cent students appeared in the examinations,” they informed.
    Witnesses told KNS that the worried parents whose wards appeared in the examinations today were waiting for their wards outside the exam centres.
    They said that huge contingent of forces were deployed in and around the exam centres. Officials informed KNS that no untoward incident occurred at any examination centre today.
    Director General Police (Law & Order) Dr S.P Vaid when contacted told KNS “the examinations conducted today went incident free. At some examination center students had some issue but BOSE officials resolved issues very patiently in consultation with the students and the parents. We congratulate all particularly students, parents and the supervisory staff deployed for supervising the examination for their cooperation in the smooth conduct of examination”.
    Meanwhile, the students who appeared in the examinations today appreciated the Board of School Education (BOSE) for announcing reduction in the syllabus today as according to them the government decision provided them a lot of assistance in today’s examinations. “. The question papers were set by the officials according to syllabus and it was quite easy paper today while the announcement of reduction in syllabus provided us a lot of assistance as due to the uprising in the Valley we had not completed our syllabus,” they said.
    Asking about the security arrangements, the students said that security arrangements made by the government were quite well. The students said that officials from BOSE also visited the centres who also instructed them during the exams.
    However, some of the students termed the reduction in syllabus as ‘false’ and said that the question paper was set by the authorities like previous year’s paper.
    Pertinently, the students were taking to streets against the government decision of holding examination in this year and were demanding deferment of exams.
    Besides, students the mainstream opposition parties were also demanding deferment of exams till the students won’t complete their syllabus.
    Notably, the students of class 10 are scheduled to appear in the exams on Tuesday.
    Officials said that the adequate security arrangements will also be made on Tuesday to ensure smooth conduct of exams. (KNS)
     

     

  • For the sake of TRPs news channels paint Kashmir black: Mehbooba Mufti

    Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday lashed out at some television news channels for bringing a bad name to the Kashmir Valley in their race for TRP ratings.

    Speaking at an Asian Development Bank function in Srinagar, Mehbooba Mufti said: “The role of these news channels has not been positive at all during the present unrest in the Valley. They get some guests from Pakistan and also some from our country, including Kashmir, on their TV shows and for 24 hours they exhibit anger.”

    “It hurts to see what they say… Nobody talks about the local youth saving army soldiers from a truck that met an accident. Nobody shows how a shikarawallah gave his life saving tourists,” the Chief Minister said.
     
    She added that the Kashmir Valley is such a show window that most tourists would love to come here simply to see the breathtaking beauty of the place.
     
    “Ladakh has a population of just 1.25 lakh and this year there were two lakh visitors. Why can’t every home in the Valley have tourists as paying guests,” she said.