Jammu: The PDP on Tuesday warned the Jammu and Kashmir government to withdraw cases registered against 5,000 youths for stone pelting during the 2010 summer unrest in Srinagar or else the party would launch an agitation.
"We will agitate in every nook and corner of Kashmir if the government did not withdraw the FIRs against the youths," PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said in the state Assembly.
The Leader of the Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly said, "These youths are very young and you (the JK government) are playing with their career of these youth...teenagers were lodged in jails for stone-pelting and about 5,000 FIRs are still pending in various police stations."
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah informed the Legislative Assembly that 5,786 people were arrested under substantive and preventive laws during the last two years in the state....
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08:30 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Srinagar: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Sunday arrived in the north Kashmir town of Baramulla where he is to hold a public meeting and review the latest security situation in the violence-hit Kashmir Valley that has seen around 110 deaths, mostly in firing by security forces on street protesters, in the last over four months. On the second day of his Jammu and Kashmir trip, Chidambaram flew to Baramulla...
05:52 PM, Oct 31, 2010
Srinagar: The hardline Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday described the Centre's appointment of a 3-member team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir as a futile exercise while the moderate faction said a Parliamentary panel would have been an appropriate forum to reach out to the people. "This is a futile exercise. The Government of India is acting like a deaf and dumb," Syed Ali Shah Geelani, head of the hardline Hurriyat...
07:15 PM, Oct 13, 2010
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09:17 AM, Sep 21, 2010
NEW DELHI:A two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir by members of all major political parties to assess the ground situation began on Monday as Home Minister P Chidambaram assured the people of the state their honour, dignity and future are secure as part of India. The visit by the all-party team, the first in two decades, hoped to help break the deadlock in the Valley, where violence has claimed over...
02:40 PM, Sep 20, 2010
Srinagar: Kashmir continues to be on the edge as curfew enters seventh day here even as three individuals are killed in police firing and seven injured in Anantnag and Pattan on Saturday. Curfew was lifted in Srinagar for a few hours to allow people to stock up on food and medicines. Today’s deaths take the toll to 98 people killed in a span of 100 days of unrest in the...
10:45 AM, Sep 18, 2010
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12:02 AM, Sep 18, 2010
New Delhi: India on Friday hit back at Pakistan rejecting as "gratuitous" its statements on Jammu and Kashmir, saying they amounted to interference in the internal affairs of the country. It asked Islamabad to take effective action against infiltration from across the LoC and dismantle terror infrastructure there as it is the people of the state who suffer from the consequences of terrorism fomented from across the border. Reacting sharply...
08:39 PM, Sep 17, 2010
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to lead the all-party delegation that will visit Jammu and Kashmir on Monday-Tuesday, Congress sources said after a meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi. Home Minister P Chidmabaram will be also in the team, an office-bearer of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) told IANS. This was decided at a meeting of the Congress core committee on Kashmir chaired by Sonia Gandhi...
05:57 PM, Sep 17, 2010
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11:27 PM, Sep 16, 2010
Get the day's top news with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on India at 9. ...
11:45 PM, Sep 15, 2010
On India at 9, CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai speaks to a panel of experts on the issue. ...
10:41 PM, Sep 15, 2010
New Delhi: Mehbooba Mufti, president of Jammu and Kashmir's principal opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said on Wednesday that the central government should start an "unconditional dialogue on Kashmir" and the state government should free civilian protesters who had been arrested. She sought the immediately release of youths booked under the Public Safety Act and asked the government to "lift the siege" laid to the Kashmir Valley. Speaking to reporters...
10:16 PM, Sep 15, 2010
However, it was decided to send an all party delegation, led by the Home Minister, to the valley to assess the ground situation. ...
09:39 PM, Sep 15, 2010
New Delhi: Maintaining that it was opposed to demand for autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP on Wednesday said dialogue with any group should be held within the constitutional framework only if they abjure violence. "We are opposed to any demand for autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and want that dialogue with any group should be held within the Constitutional framework by abjuring violence," BJP chief spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad...
08:42 PM, Sep 15, 2010
New Delhi: Linking the turmoil in Kashmir to anger and pain among Kashmiri youth who grew up in "conflict and brutality", Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said their "legitimate aspirations" must be respected and a magnanimous approach adopted to give them hope. Addressing an all-party meet on Kashmir in New Delhi, she pressed for a spirit of accommodation and reconciliation and said the "ideological and political differences" should be...
04:45 PM, Sep 15, 2010
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11:30 PM, Sep 14, 2010
On Tuesday, the opposition BJP slammed both the UPA and the state government for violence in Kashmir. ...
11:03 PM, Sep 14, 2010
On India at 9, we ask a panel of experts whether time is running out for J-K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. ...
10:49 PM, Sep 14, 2010
New Delhi: As the Centre grapples with the issue of deciding on withdrawal of AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces on Tuesday made it clear that they would like "legal protection" in dealing with the situation there. On the other hand, Defence Minister AK Antony said the government would not delay a decision on Kashmir, which will be taken after taking into confidence all the major parties. A...
07:27 PM, Sep 14, 2010
