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SRINAGAR: The Indian Premier League (IPL) will kick-off next month just after the end of the Pakistan Super League (PSL).

Since a long time, India and Pakistan don’t have a good relationship with each other and the militants attack on CRPF men in Pulwama of Kashmir and Jammu have made it even worse.

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) started on the day the militants attacked the security forces. Most of the websites in India including country’s top website Cricbuzz have suspended their telecast of the T20 league.

Meanwhile, the fans in India have also demanded the foreign players, who are playing in the PSL to be banned from the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The cricketing stars, who are playing in IPL since a long time like AB de Villiers, Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell are also playing in this year’s PSL.

Ahmedabad: The wife of an Army man allegedly committed suicide in Gujarat’s Devbhoomi Dwarka district as she had become anxious about his safety, the police said Monday News 18 reported.

Her husband, posted at Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir, was visiting home on leave when the incident took place. The couple had got married only two years ago. Meenakshi did not want him to return to Kashmir, said a local police official.

‘Don’t corner Kashmiris by attacking their sense of dignity

‘All State Govts duty-bound to ensure safety of Kashmiris’

Jammu: Monday, February 18, 2019: Peoples’ Conference Chairman, Sajad Gani Lone on Monday said that intimidation and harassment of Kashmiri students, professionals and families living outside Kashmir was unacceptable and cannot be passed off as a purportedly natural outburst. “These incidents are tantamount to trivialising the enormous sufferings and the pain suffered by the people of Kashmir over the period of the last three decades while their lives were engulfed by the scourge of violence and terror. They have been at the receiving end of the devastation that comes with a prolonged conflict and they have borne the brunt. To attack them, single them out and harass them is shameful and those behind such mob-mentality and bullying should be dealt with in the strongest of terms”, Sajad Gani Lone said today on arrival in Jammu where he is going to reach out to members of the community to ensure their safety and security.

“If stone pelting is wrong in Kashmir, it is equally wrong in Jammu and should attract the same legal and administrative response. What is wrong in Kashmir can’t be deemed acceptable and tolerable in Jammu. Law and Order is the subject of the State Administration and they need to ensure there is zero tolerance for these mobs in Jammu and those who are involved are arrested and persecuted”, Sajad Lone further added.

“All State Governments are duty bound to ensure the safety and security of all Kashmiri students, professionals and families residing in their respective States and no laxity should be tolerated in this matter. I have spoken to various State Government authorities and Police Authorities in various States and sought foolproof safety and security of Kashmiri students and families in those States”, the PC Chairman added.

SRINAGAR: BJP President Amit Shah said on Monday that Indian security forces will give a befitting reply to the “cowardly” militant attack in Pulwama in which 49 CRPF troopers lost their lives.

“Indian forces will hit back at the right time to avenge this cowardly attack. The BJP has always followed the policy of zero tolerance against terror. The party stands with the families of the CRPF troopers who sacrificed their lives for their motherland,” Shah said.

The BJP President was in the city on a one-day visit to address the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Shakti Kendra Sammelan and chair a meeting of party workers ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Srinagar, February 18: Deputy Inspector General of police south Kashmir range, Amit Kumar sustained a bullet injury in his leg during an ongoing encounter between militants and forces at Pinglan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama, a top official told KNO.

“Yes DIG South Kashmir received a bullet injury in his leg but he is stable,” the officer said. So far four soldiers including a major and two militants of Jaish-e-Muhammad militant including the “mastermind of recent Lethpora suicide attack” were killed in the encounter. Earlier, a lieutenant colonel of army also got injured in the fresh firing at the encounter site.(KNO)

Asks regional parties to assure making procedure for opening new institutions easy

Says voices like Kamal Hassan need to be heard by hardliners

Srinagar: AIP President Er. Rasheed has appealed regional political parties to assure and include in their manifesto that they
will ensure opening of new professional and technical colleges in the
state in private sector and will make the legal procedure for the same
easier. In a statement issued today Er. Rasheed said “While state
already lacks good professional colleges and institutions, but the
ongoing assault and harassment against Kashmiri students in other
states has created more need for establishing such institutions in
public and private sector. Many local investors have been trying hard
to get permission from the competent authority to establish various
much needed colleges in Kashmir valley but unfortunately bureaucracy
has been creating barriers and thus not allowing education sector to
flourish beyond a certain point. It is high time for all those
regional political parties who are in the race of power to make
sincere and concrete promises that they will not only allow investment
in the education sector without creating hurdles but will also create
a huge network of professional and technical colleges in every
district and region of the state”. Er. Rasheed said that whatsoever
Kashmiris are facing in rest of the states should act as a wakeup call
and while large number of students will prefer to leave their
education half way, rather studying outside J&K, parents will also be
facing physiological and real worries in sending their children
outside Kashmir. Er. Rasheed said “However we cannot deprive our
generation from getting best possible education in an era of huge
competition and advanced technology. It is also known to all that
getting passport too has become an uphill task for the youth and
studying outside Kashmir has become an issue, there is no way out but
to set up best class educational institutions in the state itself.
Prominent investors should prefer to invest in education sector. It
can really be a huge contribution towards the society. However unless
main political parties including NC and PDP do not promise to make the
process of establishing these institutions time bound and easy by
making necessary amendments in the laws, the aim cannot be achieved”.
Er. Rasheed welcomed actor turned politician Kamal Hassan’s statement
asking New Delhi to revisit its policies and resolve Kashmir dispute
by holding plebiscite, so that peace returns in the entire
sub-continent. He said “It is good to see credible voices speaking
sense and understanding the significance of finding peaceful
resolutions rather indulging in spreading venom against each other”.