{"id":51405,"date":"2022-05-24T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/akin-to-erasing-history-of-kashmir-nc-denounces-dropping-sheikh-abdullahs-name-embossed-police-medal\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:00:24","slug":"akin-to-erasing-history-of-kashmir-nc-denounces-dropping-sheikh-abdullahs-name-embossed-police-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51405","title":{"rendered":"Akin to erasing history of Kashmir: NC denounces dropping Sheikh Abdullah\u2019s name embossed police medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Srinagar, May 24: National Conference on Tuesday denounced the move of Jammu and Kashmir government in which it had announced replacing the name of Sher-e-Kashmir embossed on the J&amp;K Police medals for gallantry and meritorious service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposing the move, National Conference State Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar called it an attempt to erase history and said that Sheikh Abdullah will continue to \u201crule the hearts and minds of people in Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stating that the actual change of nomenclature took place in 2019, Imran said, \u201cJust to distract people from the Kashmiri Pandit protests and general failure of the JK administration, they are digging up old issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith due respect to the National Emblem, these attempts to erase our history, identity and icon show nefariousness of those running the show,\u201d he said in a statement to GNS, adding, \u201cPeople of J&amp;K have struggled on many fronts to be where they are now. They fought oppression, autocracy. No one can change that. Not by replacing or changing names. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah will continue to rule the hearts of people of J&amp;K, no matter what they or their masters do.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 24: National Conference on Tuesday denounced the move of Jammu and Kashmir government in which it had announced replacing the name of Sher-e-Kashmir embossed on the J&amp;K Police medals for gallantry and meritorious service. Opposing the move, National Conference State Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar called it an attempt to erase history and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}