Srinagar: Srinagar erupted in protests on Saturday with protesters demanding justice for the victims of the 1990 killings in Gawakadal. Clashes between the police and Hurriyat activists broke out in Srinagar's Maisuma area earlier this morning. Security personnel fired tear gas shells to disperse stone-pelting protesters and detained some of them. Nearly 52 people died in the infamous killings in Gawakadal during a police firing. The massacre was named after...
05:46 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Srinagar: Some separatist groups on Sunday said they are not against talks with the Centre for resolution of the Kashmir issue but maintained that the government needs to take certain steps before resumption of the dialogue process. Moderate Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said his faction was not against dialogue and they were ready for a meaningful dialogue between India, Pakistan and leadership of Kashmir. "The talks should not...
04:10 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Srinagar: Hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference on Saturday passed a resolution in support of US-based Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai. "I can say this with complete faith that he has done nothing wrong. Fai sahab has done nothing wrong. He has lobbied for a genuine cause," Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani said at a seminar called in support of Fai. Fai, 62, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
08:37 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Srinagar: Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq had a tough time in Sopore town today when supporters of pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani hurled 'Kangris' and stones. Sopore town, 55 km from here, has been the traditional bastion of Geelani, who heads the breakaway faction of Hurriyat, and his party Jamaat-e-Islamia and has frequently targeted Hurriyat leaders from the moderate rival faction. The supporters of the two factions clashed...
08:30 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Srinagar: Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday said debates revolving around controversial laws like AFSPA were offshoots of an unresolved Kashmir problem. "Black laws are branches of a tree. When the spring arrives, these will sprout again. The need is to address the root cause (of the problem)," he told a seminar in Srinagar. The discussions centring around laws like AFSPA and PSA were derivatives of a lingering...
07:59 PM, Dec 11, 2011
New Delhi: The three-member Central panel on Jammu Kashmir will on Wednesday submit its report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, after which the government will examine the recommendations of a "roadmap" suggested by them. Announced exactly a year ago, the team of three interlocutors " Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari " have completed their report within the timeframe of one year given by the government. Declining...
06:11 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Srinagar: Moderate Hurriyat Conference leaders were privately in favour of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru if he was guilty but felt that he did not get adequate representation during parts of his trial, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed. "While they (moderates) were concerned that Afzal did not have adequate representation during parts of his trial, privately they say that he should be executed if he is guilty," a...
09:41 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani should be provided a passport. "Some time back, we have heard from Geelani that he wants a passport. I have conveyed to the Centre that he should not be stopped. "Whosoever we can provide a passport, we should give him," Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. The Chief...
11:48 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday justified curbs on movement of hardliner Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, saying his provocative speeches invariably lead to serious law and order problems in the Kashmir Valley. "Whenever Geelani is allowed to address (a) gathering at any place, it is followed by largescale stone pelting and attacks on police and paramilitary forces, leading to serious law and order problem," a government...
11:49 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Srinagar: A youth on Sunday died allegedly in police custody in north Kashmir's Sopore town, an incident termed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as inexcusable. 28-year-old Nazim Rashid died in the custody of Special Operations Group after he was picked up on Saturday for questioning in connection with the death of a civilian in the area, a few days back. The Jammu and Kashmir police have admitted that he died...
03:23 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said Pakistan will have to talk to mainstream politicians also if the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir is to be included in dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad for resolution of Kashmir issue. "If they want inclusion of Kashmiri leadership in the dialogue, then Pakistan will have to talk to the mainstream leadership also," Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function....
10:11 AM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: India has expresses its displeasure to Pakistan over the meeting between Hurriyat leader and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in New Delhi on Tuesday. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is meeting Khar at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi with Kashmir and terror expected to dominate the talks. Khar met both the Hurriyat Conference factions during which the separatists sought Islamabad's intervention for release of Ghulam Nabi...
12:55 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Srinagar: Authorities in Srinagar have put hard line Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani under house arrest as a preventive measure, officials said on Friday. Geelani was placed under house arrest since Thursday evening as there were apprehensions that he might lead protests after Friday prayers, the officials said. Some people had indulged in stone-pelting after Geelani's address to the gatherings on May 6 at Batamaloo in the city....
01:26 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked people to hold funeral prayers on Friday for Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda who was shot dead in Pakistan on May 2 by a US Navy team. Geelani has appealed to Imams and people to hold funeral prayers in absentia for bin Laden after Friday prayers tomorrow afternoon, a Hurriyat spokesman said in a statement. Terming...
06:54 PM, May 05, 2011
Srinagar: The Centre's three interlocutors made their first contact with the moderate Hurriyat Conference in Jammu & Kashmir. The trio met the conglomerate's former chairman and Shia heavyweight Maulana Abbas Ansari. But whether or not Ansari had the endorsement of the current chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, he did take up the Hurriyat's four-point formula with the panel. Kashmir interlocutors head Dileep Padgoankar had commented, "We have met Maulana Abbas Ansari...
07:43 AM, Apr 21, 2011
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