
Lahore: Separatist leader Yasin Malik has said his Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front will make efforts to get the Kashmir issue resolved "without the help of Pakistan". "We will step up our efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue if Pakistan, India and other international stakeholders continue with their irresponsible behaviour towards it," he told reporters after meeting Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan at the party's headquarters in Mansoora on Sunday. "We...

03:13 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Srinagar: The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik and his seven aides were on Thursday detained by police at Banihal while they were going to tension gripped Rajouri town. "Malik and seven other JKLF leaders were detained by police at Banihal as they were heading towards Rajouri," JKLF spokesman said. He said Malik was going to the border town in Jammu region as part of his efforts...

06:47 PM, Mar 15, 2012

Srinagar: Separatist leader Yasin Malik and six others were arrested in Srinagar on Friday. They were protesting over the death of a Kashmiri youth in CISF firing on Monday. Kashmir has been reeling under day-long power cuts for the past several weeks. The massive load shedding led to a series of protests in the state. In Uri, a youth was killed when the CISF opened fire at the protesting villagers....

03:40 PM, Jan 06, 2012

New Delhi: The US embassy officials in New Delhi referred to top moderate separatist leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq as "four musketeers" as Washington maintained "no contact" with hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani since 2001 for his ties with "terrorist groups". Apart from Mirwaiz, former amalgam chairmen Abdul Gani Bhat and Maulvi Abbas Ansari, and Bilal Lone were the other three "musketeers", the cables from the US Embassy released by...

09:21 PM, Sep 03, 2011

New Delhi: The US getting tough on Pakistan. It has given the country a deadline till July to capture five most wanted al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. Pakistani security forces have been asked to capture al-Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, Illyas Kashmiri, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Atia Abdur Rehman either in a unilateral or joint military action. July is when NATO and allied forces begin withdrawing from neighbouring Afghanistan. PTI also quoted a...

08:09 AM, Jun 02, 2011

Mamad Gat: A top Pakistani army commander said on Wednesday that his military has no imminent plans to launch an offensive in a tribal region home to numerous militants who focus on attacking US and NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan. The statement by Lt Gen Asif Yasin Malik contradicted rampant media speculation that an operation in North Waziristan was in the works after years of requests for it from the...

05:53 PM, Jun 01, 2011

Srinagar: Security has been tightened as tension prevailed in Maisuma and Lal Chowk areas of the city where markets remained closed following the arrest of JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik. Shops, schools and business establishments in Maisuma and Lal Chowk areas remained closed and a large number of security force personnel were deployed there to maintain law and order, officials said. Malik was arrested on Thursday as he tried to...

12:56 PM, Apr 29, 2011

Srinagar: JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and three of his associates were detained on Thursday by the police after they tried to stage a protest against the arrest of a youth in Maisuma area of the city. Malik was taken into preventive custody as he and his supporters tried to stage a dharna outside Maisuma police station over the arrest of a youth, Ashiq Hussain Dar, official sources said. Malik...

03:07 PM, Apr 28, 2011

Ajmer: A shoe was flung at Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) chief Yasin Malik on Friday when BJP activists staged a protest against his visit to this pilgrim town in Rajasthan. Police said the shoe missed Malik, who was standing on the third floor of a hotel in Ganj locality where he is staying for the last two days. Demanding that Malik be asked to leave the city immediately, BJP...

05:55 PM, Feb 11, 2011

Jammu: The three interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir have for the first time sent formal invitation letters to four separatist leaders, urging them to sit across the table for talks. Dileep Padgaonkar, one of the three interlocutors, was quoted as saying in newspaper 'Greater Kashmir' that invites had been dispatched to the separatists to include their views in the report they will submit to the Central Government. "So far we...

11:52 AM, Feb 11, 2011

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: Jammu and Kashmir government has blamed Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for instigating violence in Srinagar on Saturday after the Eid-ul-Fitr prayers. Omar accused the separatists of breach of trust after violent mobs targeted police and government buildings in Srinagar. "We received a request from Mirwaiz for the peaceful protest and we gave them the permission. But the trust has been betrayed. Mirwaiz and Yasin (Jammu and Kashmir...

05:08 PM, Sep 11, 2010

JKLF chairman Yasin Malik has been detained by police. ...

02:20 PM, Feb 11, 2010

Kashmiri pandits said he should not be allowed to speak, hurled abuses. ...

03:46 PM, Jan 11, 2010

Fazal Qureshi had rejected state the government security. ...

12:01 AM, Dec 05, 2009