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Chennai, Mar 8: Sixteen Kashmiri youth were picked up for questioning by Chennai police after two of them were found moving around a market here in a “suspicious manner” on Sunday evening, sources said.

• High-level talks in February, billed by some as a failure, actually set the stage for progress.

Srinagar, March 08: In occupied Kashmir, the World Women Day has no importance for the Kashmiri women as they have been the worst victims of rights violations by Indian troops in the territory for the last 63 years.

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday underlined Islamabad's willingness to establish friendly relations with all neighbouring countries, including India.

Muzamil Jaleel , Mar 04, Srinagar : When the Army called off the operation in Sopore after a 72-hour standoff last week, four of its men lay dead, including an officer of the elite Para unit, while 15 residential houses had been razed to the ground. However, the top militant commanders it was looking for, who were suspected to be holed up in the area, all escaped, leaving behind two lower-rung militants who had kept the troops engaged.

The group, sources say, does not belong to a particular outfit and has immediately spread across the Valley, especially north Kashmir, where militant attacks are already on the rise.  

When contacted, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that the government had reports about the group. “It is yet to be fully confirmed but we are working on the assumption that they are correct so as not to take chances,” he said.  

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement issued in Islamabad said that the jail administration was not providing hygienic food and medical facilities to Altaf Khan due to which he was suffering from several diseases.

He also condemned the illegal detention of party General Secretary, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, adding that since 2008 the occupation authorities had slapped draconian law, Public Safety Act for four times on him.