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  • Govt will be responsible for consequences if president not released tomorrow: DAK

    Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) described continued detention of their president as by police as unfortunate and condemnable as his continued detention is affecting patient care at SMHS hospital. Besides head of DAK Dr Nissar is also associate professor at medical college and there are large numbers of patients under his supervision. There is nothing wrong in stating that police can’t enter in Operation Theater and Intensive care units with shoes on in search of injured youngsters. In these high dependence areas even medical staff has to change cloths, wash hands five times, wear sanitized gowns and remove their rings and watch as infection control measure. It seems there is no freedom of speech and right to show dissent in this state. In a statement DAK spokesperson Dr Suhail Naik appealed doctors to shut routine work in all hospitals for one hour from 10:00 Am to 11:00 am, but continue work in emergencies, Critical care Units and operation theaters so that common people will not suffer. Dr Naik warned state government that if Dr Hassan is not released by tomorrow, we will be forced to shut the emergency services also and state government will be responsible for the consequences.

  • JKLF Central Convention to be held on 14th June 2014

    Members across the globe to participate in party elections: Yasin Malik

    Srinagar: Chairman JKLF Mohammed Yasin Malik after consultations with supreme head Jenab Aman Ullah Khan ‘ zonal presidents and central leaders has announced that JKLF central convention will be held on 14th June 14 under the supervision of 5 member election commission. Election commission for the purpose will be constituted with 2 members each from Indian held Kashmir and azad Kashmir and one member from abroad. The convention will be held through video link simultaneously in India held Kashmir, azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe and Middle East.61 members of JKLF supreme council from all these places will participate in the convention and participate in party elections. The people who want to contest for various party posts will file their papers for which 10th June 2014 will be the last date said chairman. Before this convention an inaugural program of the newly elected supreme council will also be held on Thursday 29th May 2014 on foundation day of JKLF .Chairman, supreme head and other leaders will address the program on a video link

  • Missing boy Faheem found dead in Wullar Lake

    Srinagar: Body of three-year-old minor, Faheem Asghar, who went missing from old Srinagar locality of Nowpora Khanyar some days back, was on Tuesday fished out from North Kashmir’s Wullar Lake.

    Police sources said that the body of the minor was traced by the locals near the banks of Wullar Lake, near Leharwalpora, 60 km away from his home town.

    Parents of the minor have identified the body. However, Faheem’s father Firdous Ahmad argued that his son was scared of going near water bodies, and a “case of murder cannot be ruled out”.

    Police that had launched a massive search to locate the kid said: “Nothing can be said at this moment. We have started investigation to unearth the facts involved in the case.”

    Faheem was missing from his locality since May 6.

  • Construction of Jehangir Chowk- Rambagh ‘affect’ shopkeepers

    Solina traders block traffic, demand compensation

    Srinagar: Shopkeepers took out protest march and blocked the traffic at Solina in Srinagar protesting against the government’s indifference towards them.

    The shopkeepers complained that their business has got affected due to construction work of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover.
    The flyover project, which was in July 2009 and had to be completed in three years, hit many roadblocks, including litigation by traders, who are to be relocated to make way for the project.
    Demanding compensation, the traders had earlier put a proposal before the authorities so that their grievances could be addressed.

    “The shopkeepers protested against the failure of the government to provide them compensation. Police had also taken action, but we (KTMF) reached and handled the situation,” Said Farhan Kitab, media advisor to Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF).

    He said that the additional DC also reached the spot and fixed a meeting with the Divisional Commissioner.
    Expressing disappointment on the part of Government, Chairman KTMF, Yasin Khan said that it was unfortunate that the government had rendered the shopkeepers helpless.
    “This has become a police state. We have conducted the meeting with Divisional commissioner but I don’t expect anything yet,” Khan said

    He said that the market consists near about 150 shops and serves a source of income to more than 300 families, “but government has done nothing for their rehabilitation nor have they been given any compensation”.

    “The road is littered with construction material, there is no space for parking and the pollution level has gone up three folds. The customer footfall to the shops has dropped by over 100 percent,” he said.
    Meanwhile Divisional Commissioner Shailender Kumar while commenting on the issue said, “We have not promised them anything. There is no such policy at all.”

    “They are claiming that there business has got affected and are demanding rehabilitation. There is no such provision. Rehabilitation policy is for the displaced ones. But they are not subject to any rehabilitation,” Kumar told Rising Kashmir.

    “I have asked them to get all the details tomorrow. If the demands will be genuine, I will take up the case with government,” Kumar added.

  • Dr. Farooq Abdullah was living in a world of his own, divorced from reality

    Shadab Bashir 

    The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining, but as far as Senior Abdullah is concerned his son is no more shining in the mountain valley. Recent elections have shown that the dusk has arrived for the National Conference leadership. The son of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and the patron-saint of NC Dr. Farooq Abdullah has been dethroned by the foot-soldiers of PDP.

    Dr. Farooq Abdullah was living in a world of his own, divorced from reality. Perhaps, he knows the trick how to crack the jokes and make people laugh, but this time his “laughter show” could not convince people because agony and sufferings have increased manifold in Kashmir during his son’s regime. He was knocked down along with his other colleagues in the political arena like never before.

    It is a great embarrassment for the party, and certainly demolished the courage and hope among other party workers. Perhaps, according to some political pundits, this defeat is a trailer, and they must get ready for vanquish in the upcoming assembly elections.

    Now Omar Abdullah is counting his own faults and regretting what he did during the past more than five years, but will it give any benefit to his party National Conference, obviously not because that time has gone. There is no sympathy among most of the people toward him for unconcealed reasons.

    From Afzal Guru’s hanging to 2010 killings and from Shopian rape and murder case to non-revocation of AFSPA, Omar Abdullah spun so many webs, which eventually trapped nobody except him.

    However, it could be seen that those people who boycotted elections as they have no faith in process, and they believe NC and PDP are two faces of same coin, but still it was observed that few among them are happy to see NC people, including their patron to hide their faces in shame.

     

  • What will Hurriyat lose if they talk to Modi, asks Dulat

    SRINAGAR: Asking Hurriyat leadership in Kashmir to shun dogmatic approach and come across the table with the Government of India as Narendra Modi has declared that it will follow the line of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

    “I fail to understand why Hurriyat leadership is reluctant to hold a dialogue with the Government of India. Now the Government in India has changed and Modi has already assured that he will pursue the policies of Vajpayee, so it is high time for Hurriyat leaders to get engaged with New Delhi,” former chief, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A.S. Dulat told CNS adding that Narendra Modi will maintain close ties with neighbouring country Pakistan.

    Dulat said that the emergence of Modi and new government in New Delhi has provided a new opportunity to the separatist leadership in Kashmir. “Hurriyat leadership should understand that there is nothing wrong in holding dialogue with the Modi government. They have nothing to lose and it is right time for them to share the table with Narendra Modi,” he said.

    Replying to a query, Dulat said that he did not meet any Hurriyat leader during his recent stay in Kashmir.

  • Crime Branch arrest 2 more accused in CET paper leak scam

    Srinagar: Tow more persons have been arrested by Crime branch while as Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) has been requested for cancellation of admissions of two more student beneficiaries of Common Entrance Test paper leak scam of 2012.

    “As per the directions of High Court on March 20, the details of two candidates whose name were submitted to the court in a sealed cover to this court for having managed admission fraudulently were forwarded to BOPEE on May 7 for further necessary action,” reads the status report filed by Crime Branch in the High Court.

    The Crime Branch has further informed the High Court that with the availability of call record and other relevant details, two more candidates Hina Saleem and Omar Manzoor Sheikh were found to be involved in obtaining the question papers in advance to get selected.

    “Two more persons namely Mohammad Saleem Mir and Naresh Panditha were arrested on 25 March and are in judicial custody on remand.  The supplementary charge-sheet against these four candidates and other accused is being filed shortly for judicial determination,” the Crime Branch has said in its status report.

    Now the total number of beneficiary candidates who have been recommended to BOPEE for action has gone upto 25 and the number of accused persons arrested and behind bars is 22.

  • Collective efforts needed for eradication of social evils: Mirwaiz

    Appeals lawyers not to plead cases of drug peddlers

    Srinagar: Terming the role of parents and teachers towards social reform as central and significant, Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman and President of Anjuman-e-Nusrat-ul-Islam Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that there was an urgent need of making individual and collective efforts towards eradication of social evils and to develop a healthy society based on religious and moral values.

    According to a statement issued to KNS, in his inaugural address during a seminar titled, “Role of Parents and Teachers in Social Reformation” organized at Islamia Higher Secondary School in connection with the Hafta Shadat Programme, Mirwaiz said that our society was facing numerous problems including drug addiction and moral degradation, adding, there was an urgent need to address such problems to stop the evils from spreading  more and more in our society.

    Mirwaiz called for social boycott of those people who are involved in this trade and are selling addictive drugs to the youth. He emphasized that those  suffering from drug addiction need not to be stigmatized but need good medical care and support of their families and society so that they recover from addiction.

    Hurriyat (M) Chairman made a fervent appeal the law fraternity of Jammu and Kashmir specially lawyers not to take legal cases of drug peddlers and people arrested in drug related crimes so that  such practices are  discouraged and an end is put to this evil trade.

    Mirwaiz stated that thousands of Kashmiri youth were addicted to drugs and addictive medicinal substances, adding, at many places Charas and Hasish was being openly cultivated in fields like any other normal crop.

    Apart from social issues, Mirwaiz said there was a need to start a vigorous campaign against issues people are facing on daily basis like black marketing, illegal hording, fake medicines, and corruption. Terming the role of teachers in building the society as significant, he stated that apart from imparting conventional education, they should also focus on religious and moral education so that the young generation cultivates itself  around the teachings of Islam and that of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) (PBUH).

    A number of students from different private schools  also spoke and participated in the seminar. The best speaker was awarded to Hifza Haroon of RP School Harwan followed by Aymen Ataf of New Era Public School. Muslim Public School Kaimoh got third place while fourth was grabbed by the Islamia Higher Secondary School Rajouri Kadal. The best performers were given trophies and appreciation certificates. On the occasion, Anjuman-e-Nusrat-ul-Islam also issued a special Shaheed-e-Millat Number of Risala Nusratul Islam. Noted scholars and educationists participated in today’s seminar.

  • Chemist arrested for selling Codeine Phosphate to addicts in Bandipora

    Srinagar: Bandipora police apprehended a Chemist and recovered 50 bottles of Codeine phosphate from his shop at Nadihal who used to sell these to addicted youth of the area.

    According to a statement issued to KNS, on a tip off regarding a Chemist who used to sell Codeine phosphate formations to the local youth, Bandipora police apprehended a Chemist Anis-ul-Haq Shah son of Mohammad Sultan Shah resident of Bandipora at Nadihal Bandipora. Police recovered 50 bottles of Codeine phosphate concealed in his shop.

    A case FIR number 90/2014 under section 8/22 NDPS was registered in Police Station Bandipora and the investigation has been taken up. Further arrests in the case are expected.

  • Army man killed, three others injured in Chadoora gunfight

    Srinagar, May 19: (GNS) An army trooper was killed and three others were injured Monday in a fierce encounter in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Official sources told GNS that acting on a tip off, army 53 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and police’s Special Operation Group (SOG) cordoned off Kaisermula in Chadoora area of Budgam district and started search operation. “As the forces zeroed in a residential house, militants present there resorted to indiscriminate firing resulting in injuries to four army personals,” sources said. The injured army men were rushed to Army’s 92 Base hospital in Badami Bagh Cantonment where an injured army identified Sipahi Mir Mushtaq of Chadoora, succumbed to his injuries. The slain belonged to 162 Battalion of Territorial Army and was attached with 53 RR.

    The other three injured army men were identified as Rifleman Jogindra, Rifleman Sandeep Kumar and Rifleman Teerath Kumar. Sources said three Laskhkar-e-Toiba militants including a commander were present in the house that belonged to a police constable. Heavy firing continued between holed up militants and government forces for nearly an hour. Army’s Srinagar based spokesman, Lt. Col NN Joshi confirmed to GNS that an army trooper has been killed in the encounter and three others injured. He said that the operation is going on. Additional reinforcements of SOG Srinagar, SOG Budgam and army were sent to the area who intensified search operation to adjacent areas of Kaisarmula like Naibogh and Bogam to track down the militants.