Tag: Kashmiri

STATE TIMES NEWSNew Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police on Saturday said it has arrested a group of four radicalised Kashmiri youth who were allegedly planning terror strikes in the national capital.In a statement, the police said the accused were nabbed from central Delhi’s ITO area and were ...

Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge-sheet against three residents of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district for allegedly recruiting youth into LeT outfit. The chargesheet was filed against tur accused Muneeb Hameed Bhat son of Abdul Hameed Bhat, resident of Village Nanibugh, Kulgam and Junaid Ahmad ...

A Kashmiri version of the popular ‘bhajan; “Vaishnav Jan To” is being released on the 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on Friday to spread the message of peace that has eluded the region for the past 30 years. The bhajan, a 600 year old devotional poem by Gujarati ...

Who killed Kashmiri lawyer Babar Qadri The young lawyer was reportedly on the radar of terror group linked to journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s killing. Majid Hyderi A descendant of saints from central Asia, who settled in Kashmir centuries ago to spread Islam, prominent lawyer and human rights defender Syed Babar ...

President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020, and the Centre has notified it in the official Gazette, the government said in a statement on Sunday. The new law allows for the inclusion of Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi, in addition ...

Mohammad Yaseen Qadri was at home on the evening of September 24 when two visitors arrived, asking for his son, Babar Qadri. An advocate, 40-year-old Babar Qadri often had clients visiting his home in Hawal, a locality in Srinagar’s old town. There were chairs in the lawn where visiting ...

At the time of launch in January 2021, Phase I will feature a section that illustrates the history of Kashmiri Pandits dating back 2,000 years with a special focus on the year 1990. Kashmiri Pandits have faced exodus from their homeland seven times, the most recent being in 1990 ...

Shards of broken glass from a windowpane at the residence of Babar Qadri in Srinagar.(Photo Courtesy: Jehangir Ali)Babar had returned from court on Thursday afternoon when two unknown men knocked at the gate of his residence in the congested Hawal locality of downtown Srinagar, and sought to meet him. ...

Babar Qadri was shot on Thursday evening at his home in Srinagar by unidentified gunmen posing as clients, police said.A prominent lawyer-activist was fatally shot by assailants in the main city in Indian-administered Kashmir, police and the victim’s relatives said on Friday. Babar Qadri was shot on Thursday evening ...

Source link www.rferl.org A prominent lawyer has been shot dead in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Babar Qadri was shot on the evening of September 24 at his home by unidentified assailants, police said on September 25. Two men came to Qadri's home posing as his clients ...