Tag: Jammu and Kashmir special status

The alliance of the National Conference and the Congress has swept the elections to the hill council in Kargil district of Ladakh, winning 22 of the 26 seats that went to polls.The victory of the alliance is not surprising, given the widespread discontent in Kargil against the scrapping of ...

National Conference MP Farooq Abdullah at the Supreme Court on August 8, 2023 as the court hears petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370. | Photo Credit: ANI The story so far: The ongoing arguments before a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on the abrogation of Jammu and ...

A BSF personnel stands guard atop an armoured vehicle, a day before the fourth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, on August 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI A complete silence in Kashmir has marked the ongoing day-to-day hearings by the ...

Mehbooba too has been lauding the Taliban’s bloody takeover of Afghanistan and has even gone to the extent of threatening the center by supplanting the Afghanistan model on J&K by saying that if the people of J&K “lose patience, you will not remain — you will (also) disappear”.  (File ...

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday, 24 August, adopted a resolution for restoration of the pre-5 August 2019 constitutional position of J&K and for full statehood of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.Speaking to reporters after a meeting of PAGD leaders, the spokesperson of the alliance and ...

Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday told the Centre to learn from the crisis in Afghanistan, warning that if the residents of Jammu and Kashmir lose their patience, the central government will “disappear” from the Union Territory, reported The Indian Express. “I am telling you again and ...

Government said that 890 Central laws have been made applicable to J&K and all the unjust, discriminatory laws have been removed. (PTI)August 5, 2021 marks the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, a move which allowed the Centre to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir ...

Mr. Chugh minced no words to attack PAGD, alleging that they had been misleading Jammu and Kashmir’s people at the instance of Pakistan and China. Ahead of the second anniversary of the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir, BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Saturday warned ...

The Centre must restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood first before holding Assembly elections, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Saturday, according to the The Hindu. “Not delimitation-election-statehood but delimitation-statehood-election,” Abdullah told journalists about the timeline that political parties in Kashmir were seeking. “If you have to conduct an ...

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir want the erstwhile state’s special status restored and will not settle for anything less, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti told the Hindustan Times in an interview on Tuesday. Mufti’s remark came two days before the Centre’s meeting with political parties from Jammu ...