Observer News Service - July 31, 2019
On Tuesday, after weeks of lull, India and Pakistan traded heavy fire along the Line of Control (LoC), this time in north Kashmir’s Karnah. This triggered panic in the area. People were seen rushing towards safer areas. The skirmishes followed after a soldier Naik Krishan Lal was killed in a fierce exchange of fire on […]
Observer News Service - July 30, 2019
After deployment of ten thousand more troops, order to J&K police to immediately provide details of the mosques in the Valley has kept the people on edge. This has only deepened the fears that the centre may be about to make some big move on Kashmir, and the most dreaded of such moves is the […]
Observer News Service - July 29, 2019
Rushing of ten thousand more troops to Valley a day after the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s three day visit to Kashmir has created panic in the state. People suspect the worst. The general opinion is that the further militarization of the Valley is being done as part of a preparation to remove the Article […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend a meeting of BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir core group called here on Tuesday, with top party leaders, including its chief Amit Shah, set to discuss political atmosphere and party’s preparedness for assembly elections whenever they are held, sources said. The likely presence of Modi and […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
SRINAGAR Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti warned the Centre on Sunday against the revocation of Article 35A, saying any tinkering with the constitutional provision would be akin to setting a powder keg on fire. Addressing a function here to celebrate the Peoples Democratic Party’s 20th raising day, Mufti asked her party workers […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
ISLAMABAD US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation on Kashmir during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s first visit to Washington was “more than Pakistan’s expectations”, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. Talking to a private news channel, Qureshi also said that Prime Minister Khan “made the US realised that Kashmir is a flashpoint”, which requires […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
SRINAGAR The trial against a juvenile accused in the horrific rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl at Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said. The trial will […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
SRINAGAR Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended on Sunday morning after a landslide in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials said. Incidents of shooting stones were also reported from four other places on the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, they said. On the situation of other important […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
SRINAGAR Sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday carried out fresh raids in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Reports said that the team accompanied by police and paramilitary CRPF arrived today morning and conducted searches of houses belonging Tanveer Ahmad, Asif Lone, Tariq Ahmad and Bilal Bhat. All the four persons according to […]
Observer News Service - July 28, 2019
SRINAGAR The Amarnath yatra from the three main base camps was suspended Sunday due to widespread intermittent rains in Jammu and Kashmir for the fourth successive day, with the weather department predicting snowfall in the cave area later in the day, officials said. They said that any decision on resumption will be taken later in the […]