People power demos continue in Kashmir

Posted Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:21

 Massive demonstrations have been held in Indian-administered Kashmir for the third consecutive day over the killing of a second teenage boy in one week. 

SMS service banned in occupied Kashmir

Posted Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:22

Srinagar, February 08 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the authorities have banned the Short Messaging Service (SMS) to prevent people from exchanging information about the March towards the United Nations Observers’ Office at Sonawar in Srinagar, today, call for which has been given by the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

KASHMIR SIMMERS-Thousands Attend Zahid Farooq’s Funeral

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 14:00

Undeclared Curfew In Old City For 4th Day; Valley-Wide Shutdown, Protests On
GOWHAR BHAT-Srinagar, Feb 6: Amidst a curfew-like situation and somber scenes, the 16-year old teenager, Zahid Farooq, who was shot dead allegedly by paramilitary troopers on Friday, was laid to eternal rest at his ancestral graveyard in city outskirts today, even as life in the Kashmir Valley remained crippled for the sixth consecutive day Saturday due to the undeclared curfew and shutdown.

Masarat Alam booked under PSA for 7th time

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 13:54

Srinagar, Feb 6: Senior Hurriyat Conference (G) leader and Muslim League chairman, Masarat Alam Bhat, has been detained under Public Safety Act for seventh consecutive time since September 2008.

 He was first booked under PSA in September 2008 after Amarnath land row agitation. The High Court quashed his sixth PSA on January 1, 2010 and ordered his release from Central jail Srinagar on the same day.

No record of Kashmir solution formula in Foreign Office: Qureshi

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 13:49

 ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that neither he, nor the people of Pakistan have any knowledge about the proposal of Kashmir solution evolved by the previous government.In an interview to a private television channel the Minister said, the proposal was never debated in the country thus it is unknown to anyone. It was claimed by the foreign minister of the previous government that India and Pakistan had almost reached a solution and just the announcement of the same was remaining the Minister said adding but that announcement was never made.

After Wamiq, 16-yr-old Zahid falls to bullets

Posted Sat, 02/06/2010 - 17:17

Abid Bashir-Srinagar, Feb 05: While Kashmir was yet to come to the terms after the killing of 13-year old Wamiq Farooq, another teenager, a lone son of his parents, was allegedly killed by BSF men in an unprovoked firing at Brein, Nishat triggering massive protests.  

Another cricketer brought home dead-‘Teenage Zahid Shot In Chest’

Posted Sat, 02/06/2010 - 16:24

GOWHAR BHAT-Srinagar, Feb 5: In one more incident of its kind in less than a week, another young boy who had gone to play cricket near his residence at Nishat on Friday, was bought home dead.

16-year-old, Zahid Farooq alias Shoaib of Sheikh Mohalla, Brain, Nishat, according to his friends - also eyewitness to the incident - said they offered Friday prayers in the nearby mosque and then went out to play cricket in a field on the banks of Dal Lake.

Another boy killed by security forces amid curfew

Posted Sat, 02/06/2010 - 16:16

separatists condemn killing

Musavirr Wani -SRINAGAR, Feb 5: Already tense and curfew like-situation prevailing in Kashmir valley took a turn for the worse after another teenager, Zahid Farooq was killed when unidentified security forces personnel opened unprovoked firing at Kralsangri-Brain on the banks of Dal lake here this afternoon. Normal life was paralysed for the fourth consecutive day today in view of an indefinite curfew in most parts of Srinagar city and a general strike in rest of Kashmir.

Thousands rally to show solidarity with Kashmir

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 19:57

MUZAFFARABAD: Thousands of people rallied across Pakistan on Friday to denounce Indian rule in Kashmir, the disputed mainly Muslim state divided between the nuclear-armed rivals.

TV channels asked to blackout news of Hurriyet leader in Kashmir

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 19:34

Srinagar, February 05 : In occupied Kashmir, the authorities have warned local TV channels against airing content of peaceful demonstrators protesting the continued gross human rights violations by troops in occupied Kashmir.