Lawyer who secured death sentence for Afzal disapproves secret hanging

It is a human rights violation, family ought to have been first informed: Prosecutor Gopal Subramanium

New Delhi, Feb 13: The very lawyer instrumental in securing death sentence for Afzal Guru disapproves of the secretive manner in which he has been executed without being given an opportunity to meet his family.Gopal Subramanium, who was the special public prosecutor in the Parliament attack case More

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Not afraid of jails, gallows: JKLF

Executive council meets, discusses Malik-Hafiz issue

Srinagar, Feb 13: Reacting to media reports on the Government of India’s proposed action against its chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik for “sharing dais” with Jamat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed in Pakistan recently, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Wednesday said the Front leaders and activists More

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Islamabad: People run short of essentials

Situation ‘Grim’ In Main Town; Patients Suffer For Want Of Medicine

KHALID GUL

Islamabad (Anantnag), Feb 13: With stringent curfew in place for the fifth straight day Wednesday, people in this south Kashmir town are facing acute shortage of essentials and medicine. The chemists are also running short of life-saving drugs, putting the patients to immense inconvenience. & More

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Delhi’s Kashmir policy flawed, says legislator

Afzal’s Execution 'Indecent': Tarigami

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Feb 13: Jammu and Kashmir unit of CPI (M) Wednesday demanded that mortal remains of Muhammad Afzal Guru be handed over to his family, even as it termed the execution of the Parliament attack convict as “indecent.” “It is unfortunate that the family of Guru was not informed prior to his execution More

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Pepper Gas Use: Kashmir medicos warn of health hazards

‘Pepper Smoke Causes Temporary Blindness, Shortness Of Breath’

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Feb 13: The unabated use of pepper and teargas by police and paramilitary forces on protestors in Kashmir has raised a serious health concern among the experts and medicos.The Public Health experts Wednesday cautioned people about the ill-effects of pepper gas, saying “when the skin More

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Arrested Kashmiri students released: DGP

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Feb 13: Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Prasad has said that the Kashmir students who were detained in Dehradun on Tuesday have been released.“They have been released. They were in preventive custody,” DGP told Greater Kashmir adding that they were carrying a protest march near More

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Afzal’s hanging against international legal norms: HCBA

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 13: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Wednesday termed the hanging of Afzal Guru against all international legal norms, political ethics and international political conventions.Demanding return of Guru’s body, the Bar today announced that it would take all steps to More

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Authorities not allowing Geelani to return: Hurriyat (G)

Srinagar, Feb 13: General Secretary of Hurriyat Conference (G) Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai on Wednesday condemned the continuous house arrest of the amalgam chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani in New Delhi.In a statement Sehrai said that Geelani wanted to come to the Valley to share the grief and sorrow More

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Saifullah reviews stock, supply position in Kupwara

Srinagar, Feb 13: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Mir Saifullah accompanied by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon convened a meeting of officers in District Kupwara today and took stock of essentials which include Health care facilities being provided to the More

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Gurezi chairs high level meet in Bandipora

Asks officers to maintain their headquarters

Srinagar, Feb 13:  Minister of State for Sheep and Animal Husbandry, PHE, Agriculture and Horticulture, Nazir Ahmad Gurezi convened meeting of officers to review the restoration of essential services in  north Kashmir’s Bandipora district today.Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bandipora More

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