Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba http://kkdominos.angelfire.com/ Mufti on Sunday chaired an all-party meet to discuss the panchayat polls scheduled to be held on February 15 in the state the Greater Kashmir reported. The panchayat elections were due in 2016. However in view of the unrest that followed the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July 2016 they were postponed. The previous panchayat elections in the state were held in 2011 after a 37-year hiatus. On November 4 2017 the governor had promulgated an ordinance empowering the state s chief electoral officer to conduct the panchayat elections. Majority of the senior leaders of the opposition and ruling parties that attended the meeting on Sunday favoured deferring the panchayat polls Rural Development Minister Haq Khan said. The leaders said the situation in the state was not conducive for holding the elections.Khan said the governmnet will consider the views of the opposition parties and then take a final call on the polls Brighter Kashmir reported. In January the Hizbul Mujahideen had threatened to pour acid into the eyes of the people who participate in panchayat elections. An audio clip purportedly a leaked conversation between Hizbul s Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and militant leader Sameer Tiger was circulated on social media in January. Separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik had also called for the elections to be boycotted. They had said any sort of polls under the Indian occupational system is only meant to harm the interests of Kashmiris .
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved withdrawal of cases against 9 730 stone throwers Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti told the assembly on Saturday.In a written reply in the assembly Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that the government approved the withdrawal of cases registered between 2008 and 2017 against these people including first-time offenders though withdrawal of 1 745 cases is subject to certain conditions based on recommendations of a committee set up to look into the matter.Mehbooba Mufti also said that the government has recommended amnesty for more than 4 000 people involved in minor incidents of stone throwing over the last two years.Due to security reasons for them and their families she did not disclose the particulars of first-time offenders. Giving details the chief minister said 3 773 cases were registered in 2016 and 2017 leading to the arrest of 11 290 people while 233 remained untraced.Seven cases were not admitted 1 692 were chargesheeted and 1 841 were under investigation the she added in her reply.Intense clashes had rocked Kashmir Valley in 2016 following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8 in a gunfight with security forces in Anantnag district.As many as 85 people were killed in clashes with security forces in the 2016 valley unrest.The chief minister said that while 2 904 cases were registered and 8 570 people were arrested in connection with stone throwing incidents in 2016 the number of such cases in 2017 dropped to 869 in which 2 720 people were arrested. CommentsClose X The highest number 2 330 people were arrested in Srinagar followed by 2 046 in Baramulla 1 385 in Pulwama 1 123 in Kupwara 1 118 in Anantnag 783 in Budgam 714 in Ganderbal 694 in Shopian 548 in Bandipora 547 in Kulgam and two in Doda districts during 2016 and 2017.She said 56 government employees and 16 Hurriyat Conference activists were among the 4 949 people found involved in stone throwing incidents while 4 074 were not affiliated with any separatist or militant group.
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday said it has taken all the possible measures to avoid loss of life and property in the Pakistani shelling along the LoC in the state. The Parliamentary affairs minister Abdul Rehman Veeri in a statement in the Legislative Assembly said that alternate arrangements for boarding and lodging have also been put in place to meet the situation arising out of frequent shelling from across the border. Representational image. Reuters Giving details of the latest incidents of cross-border firing the minister said that four army personnel including an officer were killed while two civilians and three jawans including a BSF personnel were injured in fresh ceasefire violation along the LoC in Rajouri and Poonch districts on Sunday. In Rajouri Pakistan Army started indiscriminate firing in Balakote sector resulting in the killing of four army personnel Captain Kapil Kundu of Gurugram Rifleman Ram Avtar of Gawalior Rifleman Subham Singh of Kathua and Hawaldar Roshan Lal of Samba while one army jawan Lance Naik Iqbal Ahmed sustained injuries he said. In another ceasefire violation in Bandi Chacian sector in Poonch he said one army jawan Sepoy Kishore Kumar and two civilians Yaseen Arif and Gulnaz Akhter sustained injuries. Veeri said the ceasefire violation was also reported from Sunderbani where one BSF personnel Assistant Sub-Inspector Ajab Singh sustained injuries. He was immediately shifted to Army Hospital Satwari for treatment. He said firing was also reported from Bhawani and Lam sector but no loss of life was reported. The respective district administrations are taking all possible measures to avoid loss of life and property. Alternate arrangements for boarding and lodging have also been put in place for the affected population he said.
Srinagar: A Pune woman labelled a suicide bomber by the Jammu and Kashmir police has been handed over to her family as there is no case against her the police have said. Yes we have handed her to her family Director General of Police SP Vaid told PTI. Sadiya Anwar Shaikh who turned 18 in November 2017 had travelled to Kashmir from Pune and had been staying in Bijbehara as a paying guest. File image of Jammu and Kashmir Police. AFP The police who claimed she wanted to join the Islamic State detained her on 25 January from South Kashmir and subjected her to intense questioning during which they found nothing incriminating. On sustained questioning it was revealed that the woman a school dropout had been brainwashed online about the supposed suffering of the Kashmiri people at the hands of security forces and had fallen prey to false propaganda on social media the police said. The Jammu and Kashmir police had been informed by central security agencies that a Pune-based woman who had been detained on various occasions by the Pune Anti-Terrorism Squad had moved to the Valley and that surveillance needed to be mounted. Subsequently an alert was issued to all districts. It named her and claimed that she was a suicide bomber who was planning to disrupt a Republic Day function. The note said there was a strong input that an 18-year-old non-Kashmiri woman could cause a suicide bomb explosion near or inside the Republic Day parade. All are directed to please ensure that frisking of ladies at the (venues) is done meticulously and with utmost caution so as to thwart the designs of ANEs (anti-national elements) the note circulated on 23 January read. Shaikh had been questioned by the ATS Pune in 2015 when it came to its notice that she had been radicalised after coming in contact with Islamic State supporters abroad. She was planning to travel to Syria the ATS had then claimed. The woman a Class XI student at a Pune college was subsequently sent for a de-radicalisation programme by the ATS.
SRINAGAR: Security forces have busted a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) module involved in several grenade throwing incidents by arresting five over-ground workers (OGWs) in Pulwama district of south Kashmir police said on Monday. In a joint operation the police Army and CRPF have busted a JeM module and arrested five OGWs from Awantipora area of the district a police official said. He said the module was involved in grenade throwing incidents in Pampore and Khrew areas of the district.
Jammu: A government agency on Wednesday issued an avalanche warning in several districts of Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours shortly after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region jolted parts of north India.The Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment has informed that medium danger avalanche warning of level-3 exists in higher reaches of Baramulla district and low danger warning of level-2 in Kupwara Bandipore Shopian and Kargil Districts an official http://cs.astronomy.com/members/kkdominos/default.aspx spokesman here said.He said a level-1 warning has been issued in Poonch Rajouri Reasi Ramban Doda Kishtwar Udhampur Anantnag Kulgam Budgam Ganderbal and Leh for the next 24 hours. CommentsClose X The people living in higher reaches of these districts should avoid movement in the avalanche-prone areas/slopes for the next 24 hours he added.The advisory has been issued in view of the forecast of wet weather in most parts of the state over the next 24 hours.
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