It’s easy to blame valley residents for fear mongering but what are we to make of such official orders which forecast a deterioration in the law & order environment and even predict disturbances lasting for an extended period of time? Why is the Govt silent?
— Tweets Omar Abdullah
Later on the above tweet was followed by following response from SSP Railway Kashmir and Omar Abdullah:
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Lok Sabha on Thursday gave its nod to a bill which seeks to penalise the practice of instant triple talaq by a voice vote.
Several amendments moved by the Opposition were defeated.
The clause in the bill which criminalises the practice with a jail term of upto three years for the husband was passed by a division of 302 in favour and 78 against.
The Lok Sabha witnessed an intense debate over the triple talaq bill with the opposition charging the government of targeting one community with the proposed legislation and the government asserting the draft law is meant for gender justice.
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A physician has plucked a worm from the eye of a little baby in Hajin hos pital of District Bandipora. Locals told RNA that a rare case of “ophthalmic parasitosis” Was detected by Dr Muzzafar Mohi ud din R/O Palhalan Pattan who is Working as Physician Specialist at CHC Hajin Wherein a worm was plucked out from right eye of kid namely baby Rukaiya D/O Zaffar Ahmad dar R/o Shahgund hajin age 10 months.
It may be mentioned this condition is rarely seen in our part of the world. (RNA)
SRINAGAR: Director MeT Sonam Lotus on Saturday issued fresh weather advisory.
According to statement Lotus said “As expected, moderate to heavy shower occurred at many places of Jmu n Kmr regions and the same is likely to continue for nxt 24hrs. With breaks in between, including Yatra routes. Light to moderate rain is also likely at many places of Zanskar, Kargil n Leh dist. During nxt 24hrs . Due to intermittent rain since last few days, soil is saturated and additional rain may trigger landslide, flash flood,mudslides in local Nallahs,valleys, hilly areas which may led to closure of High ways, local road. General public, those on Trekking in mountains, Administration, SDRF and Yatra managers are requested to remain cautious for next few days as weather is adverse and likely to remain so for nxt 24hrs. For details Pls contact 01942430112″, he said.
SRINAGAR: Top most Jaish commander of South Kashmir Munna Lahori/Bihari from Pakistan killed along with his local associate after a night long operation, a police spokesman said.
This militant from Pakistan was known for IED making and responsible for series of civilian killings in the local area. JeM had used him for recruitment also in the belt.
The slain Jaish commander Munna Lahori was responsible for partial Car Blast attack on Security Force convoy on 30/3/19 at Banihal and fatal car blast on Army vehicle at Arihal Pulwahma on 17/6/19.Some fatal & non fatal casualties took place in that blast.
Srinagar: After a lull in encounters finally encounter broke out between militants and government forces in Bonbazaar area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday.
Reports reaching GNS said that a joint team of Army’s 23 Para and SOG Shopian launched a cordon and search operation in Bonbazaar.
A senior police officer told GNS that it was specific information on which cordon and search operation was launched. As the joint team of forces zeroed the suspected spot the hiding militants fired upon the forces triggering an encounter, the officer said.
As per the sources two to three militants are believed to be trapped.
Till this report was being filed intermittent firing was going on.(GNS)
Srinagar, Jul 26: Amid unconfirmed reports about the merger of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd with some other nationalised or private bank, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sources Friday clarified that there was no such proposal before it. “There has been no initiative from the RBI regarding merger of the J&K Bank. Some TV channel ran this story which is absolutely baseless,” they told KNS. “If there is something from the state government regarding the merger that is separate. But RBI has neither issued any notification nor is privy to any such decision. There is a state level meeting of the J&K Bank scheduled on August 10 and there is nothing much beyond that,” sources said and added no such proposal has been moved by the state government as well as of now. On Wednesday some news channels ran a story claiming that J&K Bank faces the prospect of a merger with a public sector bank, most likely the State Bank of India. The J&K Bank has remained in news ever since its chairman Parvaiz Ahmad was sacked by the governor in early June following which state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths conducted raids on the Corporate Office of the Bank on TRC Road here. Executive Director of the Bank RK Chhiber was named as its interim chairman in place of Ahmad, who was appointed in October 2016 as the chairman of J&K Bank. The governor administration also approved a proposal that provisions of the J&K Right to Information Act, 2009, shall be applicable to the Bank just like other state-owned undertakings. It also now follows guidelines of the Central Vigilance Commission. (KNS)
New Delhi, Jul 26 : Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Friday vehemently opposed the Triple Talaq bill in the Lok Sabha, saying the bill will worsen the plight of the Muslim women in the country.
Participating in the debate on the Bill, party’s MP Hasnain Masoodi expressed anguish over the efforts to malign a religion that fourteen and a half centuries back, for the first time, provided for the rights of women including right to property and declared marriage as civil contract with right of women to pull out of the marriage in certain circumstances.
Contesting the claim of ruling party that the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019 was to bring relief to Muslim Women he said, “The proposed Bill is insensitive to gender issues therefore the law will worsen of the plight of Muslim Women in the country.”
Emphasizing that the Bill was a piece of class legislation as it picked up only one community for legislation without any intelligible differential he said, “Therefore the law is not permissible under the Constitution.”
Masoodi while refuting the claim of Union law Minister that the Parliament was competent to enact the law said, “Once Triple Talaq was held void and illegal by Supreme Court there was no need to enact the law as Supreme Court Judgment was law of the land to be followed in triple talaq matters.”
Masoodi refuted the claim that the Bill was brought in compliance of Supreme Court Judgment as the Judgment did not direct criminalization of triple talaq as was being done by the proposed law. “The net result of holding triple talaq void and illegal was that the marriage subsisted and relationship of husband and wife continued notwithstanding triple talaq and making triple talaq punishable with three year imprisonment would make the family fall apart.”
Masoodi asked as to how the Bill would help strengthen family, promote matrimonial harmony and unite broken families, “The bill provides for the prosecution of husband by the wife, his arrest and detention and imprisonment for three years and at the same time makes him duty bound to maintain his wife.”
While questioning the wisdom and competence to declare a pure civil matter as criminal offence category he said, “It is indeed a legally impermissible attempt of make breach of contract an offence, with a provision for arrest with tough bail conditions and punishable with imprisonment.”
SRINAGAR: Acquitting three Kashmiries after 24 long years is murder of justice, which is being carried out here in Jammu and Kashmir for the last 30 years. All Parties Hurriyat Conference said in a statement on the release of Latief Ahmad Waja, Mirza Nisar Hussain and Mohammad Ali Bhat.
Forced occupation, military muscle and throttling by investigative agencies has already tarnished every fabric of so-called Indian democracy, now the judicial activism very slowly and silently punishes every Kashmiri on fictitious and fabricated cases.
Hurriyat said that courts take decades to label a person innocent and these poor victims of the “Democratic Glory” has every right and reason to curse this flawed and false system of providing justice where even a criminal convicted for snatching a life and sentenced to life imprisonment, is let off after completing 7-14 years—but those, belonging to a particular faith and region, have to be rotten in jails for decades, to prove their innocence.
Hurriyat said that when an accused happens to be Muslim and a Kashmiri, he automatically and doubly qualifies for stern punishment for a crime he has never committed, but when the crews of their Saffron brigade are convicted by their own agencies, their mighty and powerful political godfathers come to their rescue, bail them out even before their trail begins and ensure their entry into the parliament.
Hurriyat said that those booked by NIA including Mohammad Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Masarat Aalam Bhat, Dr. G. M. Bhat, Asiya Indrabi, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Shahid-ul-Islam, Fraooq Ahmad Dar, Zahoor Ahmad Watali, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Ahmad are also victims of the judicial onslaught. Most of them have completed 2 years in Tihar jail and courts are yet to prove their offence. Shabir Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Yasin Malik, Masrat Aalam Bhat, Peer Saifullah, Dr. G. M. Bhat, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Asia Indrabi and Zahoor Watali are in bad health and their continuous confinement can further deteriorate them. Ayaz Akbar’s wife is battling for life with deadly disease of cancer and those parroting human values should have considered this family tragedy and released Ayaz Akbar, so that he could console his wife and kids, but stone hearted rulers are only concerned about their power and brutalizing any Kashmiri in the garb of hyper-nationalism not only satisfies their collective conscience but ensures them thumbing majority in elections.
Meanwhile on the direction Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani, Hurriyat spokesman Hakeem Abdul Rashid visited the house of Latief Ahmad Waja and Mirza Nisar Hussain and lauded their courage and steadfastness.
