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Massarat Alam made new chairman of APHC

Massarat Alam made new chairman of APHC #Kashmir

Srinagar, September 07: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, today, announced new office-bearers of the amalgham to spearhead the Kashmir freedom movement. Masarrat Aalam Butt has been appointed as the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, while Shabbir Ahmad Shah and Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar would be vice chairmen of the amalgam. Moulvi Bashir…

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Shaikh Tajammul Islam passes away in Islamabad

Shaikh Tajammul Islam passes away in Islamabad #Kashmir

Islamabad, September 06 (KMS): The great champion of Kashmir cause, veteran journalist, intellectual and Executive Director of Kashmir Media Service, Shaikh Tajammul-ul-Islam, passed away in Islamabad on Sunday night. He was 67. Shaikh Tajammul-ul-Islam is survived by his widow and a daughter. He belonged to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. During his student life, he led Islami…

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Modi regime snatches Gilani's body, buries under military siege

Modi regime snatches Gilani’s body, buries under military siege

Srinagar, September 02 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the towering Kashmiri Hurriyat leader and face of Kashmir resistance movement, Syed Ali Gilani, embraced martyrdom after remaining in 12 years’ Indian detention in Srinagar, last night. He was 92. Despite suffering from multiple ailments, Syed Ali Gilani continued to remain under house arrest for so many years that took…

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India locks down Kashmir after top separatist leader’s death

India locks down Kashmir after top separatist leader’s death

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities cracked down on public movement and imposed a near-total communications blackout in disputed Kashmir on Thursday after the death of Syed Ali Geelani, a top separatist leader who became the emblem of the region’s defiance against New Delhi. Geelani, who died late Wednesday at age 92, was buried in a local graveyard in a quiet funeral organized by…

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Syed Ali Geelani: End of an era

Syed Ali Geelani: End of an era

Syed Ali Geelani was born on September 29, 1929, to Syed Peer Shah Geelani of Zoori Munz village in Tehsil Bandipora which then formed a part of Baramulla district. Geelani received his preliminary education at Sopore, and finished his studies at the Oriental College, Lahore (Pakistan). Geelani spent his boyhood in the headquarters of Plebiscite Front at Mujahid Manzil where Moulana Syed Masoodi…

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Syed Ali Geelani passes away

Syed Ali Geelani passes away

Srinagar: Veteran pro-freedom leader and former Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani passed away at his residence-cum-office in Srinagar on Wednesday evening. He was 92. His family members confirmed the death of Geelani after prolonged illness at his Hyderpora residence. There was no confirmation about the timing of his funeral prayers or about the place of his burial. Reports said that…

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Pakistan-origin wives of ex-mujahideen detained while marching towards LoC

Pakistan-origin wives of ex-mujahideen detained while marching towards LoC

Srinagar, August 02: At least 16 Pakistan-origin wives of former Kashmiri militants were detained on Monday during the protest when they were trying to march towards the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Uri. Eyewitnesses said that around 30 women, along with their children, were marching from Baramulla towards the LoC demanding travel documents for enabling them to visit their parents in…

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No govt jobs, no Passport clearance to persons involved in stone pelting, other anti India activities

No govt jobs, no Passport clearance to persons involved in stone pelting, other anti India activities

Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir government on Sunday, in a major crackdown on ‘anti-nationals’ and stone pelters, issued orders that prohibit passport clearance, no provision of government jobs, among other restraints. As per the order that CID Special Branch Kashmir has directed all units to deny security clearance to those involved in law and order menace, stone pelting and other crimes…

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Another fake encounter: Family contests Police claim, says ‘our son was civilian’

Another fake encounter: Family contests Police claim, says ‘our son was civilian’

Anantnag/Islamabad, Jul 27: The family members of Imran Ahmad Dar, a resident of Batengoo Anantnag, who was killed in a gunfight at Munad area of Kulgam district, have contested police claim stating that their son had no connection with militancy and that he was a civilian. Zahid Ahmad, the brother of slain Imran, his brother told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that Imran had a small…

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HRW deplores state of human rights in IIOJK

HRW deplores state of human rights in IIOJK

New York, July 27: Human Rights Watch, a United States based human rights body has deplored the state of human rights in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir citing ordeal of hundreds of Kashmiris who have been detained without charge under the draconian Public Safety Act, which permits detention without trial for up to two years. In its World Report 2021, Human Rights Watch’s 31st annual…

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Bandipora Encounter: 01 more militant killed, toll reaches 03, operation on

Bandipora Encounter: 01 more militant killed, toll reaches 03, operation on

Srinagar, July 24:In a intense gunfight which is underway, another militant has been killed taking toll to three in Shokbaba forest area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday. A senior Police officer told GNS that one more militant body is visible, taking death toll of militants to three. Earlier, a joint by a team of Police, Army’s 13, 14 RR and CRPF launched cordon and search…

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Muhammad Farooq Rehmani elected convener of APHC-AJK

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani elected convener of APHC-AJK

Islamabad, July 15: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter at a meeting held in Islamabad, today, unanimously elected Muhammad Farooq Rehmani as the new Convener. On the occasion, Abdul Majeed Mir and Nazir Ahmad Karnai were elected General Secretary and Information Secretary respectively. All members of the Executive Council assured the new office holders…

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Indian troops martyr 15 Kashmiris in June

Indian troops martyr 15 Kashmiris in June

Srinagar, June 30 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred fifteen Kashmiris during the month of June 2021. According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, of those six were killed by the troops in fake encounters or in custody. The killing rendered two women widowed and five…

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Indian courts take 12 years to decide detained Kashmiri man innocent

Indian courts take 12 years to decide detained Kashmiri man innocent #Kashmir

Srinagar, June 30 : All the charges pressed against Bashir Ahmed Baba by the Indian police proved to be false and it took the Indian courts 12 years to come to that conclusion. During his 12-year long illegal detention in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Bashir Ahmed Baba often missed the streets and bylanes of Srinagar’s Rainawari neighbourhood, the place where he was raised. He would dream…

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Reports gleaning from Sopore tell horrible stories

Reports gleaning from Sopore tell horrible stories

Teams from Amnesty, Asian Watch, OHCHR, ICJ, ICRC asked to visit town Srinagar, June 22: The reports gleaning from Sopore have revealed that brutal Indian troops under a sinister plan on Saturday night cordoned off the entire town right from Arampora to Batapora, picked more than 100 teenage boys, made them to stand in a line and started beating them mercilessly. As per evidences gathered by…

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An eyewitness account of massacre of civilians in Sopore

An eyewitness account of massacre of civilians in Sopore

Srinagar: Eyewitnesses said that a group of policemen disembarked from their vehicle and opened indiscriminate fire on the civilians in Sopore on Saturday. A middle-aged man said he saw a group of policemen disembarking from their vehicle and opening fire on the civilians. “So what if they kill me,” the eyewitness, in a video is seen telling a group of journalists near the location of the…

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Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai is no more

Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai is no more

Srinagar, May 05: In Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior APHC leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has died in Indian custody in Jammu. Booked under draconian Public Safety Act, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was on July 12, 2020 shifted to Udhampur Jail in Jammu. His condition deteriorated in jail and he was shifted, yesterday, to a hospital in Jammu…