SRINAGAR: Kashmiri youth who has been dubbed as Islamic Rage Boy by the Western media was rearrested by authorities soon after court directed police to release him from Udhampur jail on Thursday.
Shakeel Ahmed Bhat resident of Malik Angan Fathe Kadal Srinagar was languishing in jail from past six years. He was arrested in 2008 on the charges of organizing protests against police while authorities had slapped 18 PSAs on him. He was released before the Parliament elections but was arrested shortly before the start of Assembly poll process.
Shakeel lodged in Udhampur Jail was released by Court on Thursday, however, was soon rearrested by police from court premises and was taken to unknown destination.
Castigating authorities for dishonouring the court orders, Democratic Political Movement General Secretary, Advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi told CNS that ahead of Assembly polls authorities had slapped 18th PSA on Shakeel and had lodged him in Udhampur Jail. He said that it has become a routine for authorities in Jammu and Kashmir to dishonor the court orders. (CNS)
andhinagar ( India)/ New Delhi : Due to increased terror threat, Sada-e-Sarhad, Delhi-Lahore bus would ply up to Wagah (Pakistan) border only. The decision was taken after Pakistan Tourism Department Corporation (PTDC) wrote a letter to Delhi Transport Corporation about restricting the bus service up to Wagah owing to security reasons, informed In charge, Dr. Ambedkar Terminal, Delhi, RP Singh to the TOI on Wednesday.
He informed that PTDC’s Dosti Bus would depart for Delhi from Wagah and not from Lahore.
Sources informed that PTDC took the decision in wake of suicide bombing at Wagah on November 2 that left more than sixty persons dead and killing of nearly 150 persons, mostly young school children, in an army school, Peshawar on December 16th.
The Indian government has expressed hope that “temporary aberrations” in the Dosti bus service connecting Delhi and Lahore, which has been restricted to the Wagah border by Pakistan in view of increased “terror threats”, will be sorted out soon.
“This is an initiative which our former Prime Minister Atal Bhihari Vajpayee and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had started. We hope that it would ply in accordance with their vision and if there are temporary aberrations, we hope these will be sorted,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters on the sidelines of the 13th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas here.
The bus service between the two countries was launched on 16 March, 1999 with an objective to enhance people-to-people contacts following an initiative by the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif.
The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) on Wednesday said the Pakistan-India Dosti bus service will now on be operated only up to Wagah Border. “This has happened since the 31 December. If there are security concerns that Pakistan is expressing on its side, then it is for Pakistan to decide what is in their best interest, in terms of security,” he told the media
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