Tag: Revocation of Article 370

Hurriyat chairman and Kashmi’s chief cleric in Srinagar. File photo | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Kashmir’s chief cleric and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is likely to offer Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, four years after he was placed under house arrest.According to the Anjuman Auqaf Jama ...

He was reacting to a statement made by Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu last week where he said that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and the country is capable of solving its own problems. The abrogation of provisions of Article 370 was “wrong” and “unconstitutional” and ...

National Conference leader Omar Adbullah on Thursday said no government lasts forever, referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre. He added that the recently-formed coalition, thePeople’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, will continue to fight for the restoration of special provisions under Article 370 that was abrogated on ...

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said that the six parties, which signed the Gupkar declaration last year, have planned to present a united front, setting aside their different political ideologies, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday.“We have different political ideologies, but for the time being, these ...

United Nations Pakistan’s attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue through the United Nations has again “come to naught”, after a UN Security Council meeting, convened by China to discuss the matter, ended without any outcome, a top Indian diplomat said on Thursday.Also read: J&K and Ladakh, a year on ...

Iltija Mufti, 32, daughter of incarcerated Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, speaks to The Hindu on why she thinks J&K is far from being a normal place, even as the revocation of the erstwhile State’s special status completes one year. Edited excerpts from ...

A year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was revoked, the State administration is yet to create new government jobs in the newly created Union Territory (UT). As many as 10,000 vacancies at all levels are to be filled in Phase-1, a senior government official said. The ...

For the first time since the momentous constitutional changes in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 5 last year, former chief minister of the erstwhile state, and National Conference (NC) leader, Omar Abdullah, who was detained for eight months, has spoken out. Writing in The Indian Express, he expressed ...