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A G Noorani (from dailytimes.com) Predictably the economic blockade which Kashmiris suffered led them to demand the reopening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. The demand is voiced by all parties across the board, from the Hurriyat to the National Conference and the PDP. The Governments of India and Pakistan responded with expressions of readiness to reopen the road [...]
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Yasmeena Akhter is claimed by Kashmir militants as a suicide bomber and a martyr. But was she? Basharat Peer pieces together the story of a young militant and her dangerous love affair Basharat Peer (via The Guardian) Saturday August 5 2006 Five days after the earthquake struck Kashmir in October last year, Ghulam Nabi sat in his shop in [...]
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Mohammad Sayeed Malik (from kashmirtimes) Trapped between political disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar on the one hand and suffocating homeground-hostility on the other, mainstream political parties in Kashmir Valley are getting squeezed into a tight corner. The ‘nationalist’ portion of their agenda is already a casualty in the face of a radical shift in the local discourse. [...]
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Zardari’s ‘Business Plans’ with India Happymon Jacob (from greaterkashmir.com) Asif Ali Khan Zardari, the newly elected President of Pakistan, lacks in popular legitimacy. He is still known to a large number of common Pakistanis and committed cadres of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as the widower of their favorite leader. In other words, President Zardai’s only claim to [...]
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Mohammad Sayeed Malik(from kashmirtimes) Trapped between political disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar on the one hand and suffocating homeground-hostility on the other, mainstream political parties in Kashmir Valley are getting squeezed into a tight corner. The ‘nationalist’ portion of their agenda is already a casualty in the face of a radical shift in the local discourse. [...]
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‘Police refused vehicle and Sajad breathed his last on way to hospital’ Ishfaq Mir(from Rising Kashmir) Srinagar, Sep 13: “Sajad who fell to the bullets of SOG personnel at Shopian on Friday could have survived had a police officer allowed us to shift him to hospital in a police vehicle,” his friend Khalid said. Sajad, 28, the only [...]
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When 12-year-old was thrashed while shielding his mother (from greaterkashmir) Srinagar, Sep 13: To prevent his mother from lathis of the paramilitary CRPF troopers who were thrashing her at the Amira Kadal bridge Saturday, 12-year-old Biscoe Boy, Pirzada Inayat braved to act a shield on her while the troopers kept flexing their muscles. But as the little [...]
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Muslims are poor in Muslim majority State Naseer A Ganai(from greaterkashmir) Srinagar, Sept 13: In the Muslim majority State of Jammu and Kashmir the incidence of poverty is higher among Muslims and higher number of families below the poverty line is from the Muslim majority districts. This has been revealed by the BPL survey released by the Directorate [...]
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Syed Yasir (from kashmirtimes) SRINAGAR, Sep 11: The state government has prepared a list of around 500 employees, who according to it had actively participated in the recent pro-freedom protest demonstrations and marches. The government is planning to take action against them. Reliable sources said that some quarters in the government fear that any action against them may [...]
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by Iftikhar Gilani (from kashmirtimes) NEW DELHI, Sep 11: The wheel has turned full circle. Congress MP Sachin Pilot from Rajasthan has stepped into shoes of his late father Rajesh Pilot, a former Union Minister, to broker yet another deal between the Congress and the National Conference (NC) in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and [...]