National Conference (NC) President Dr Farooq Abdullah has voiced concern over what he described as the growing climate of hatred, communalism and religious intolerance in the country, urging secular and democratic forces to unite to safeguard India's constitutional values and unity.
Ruling National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, describing it as a momentous step towards global peace and a triumph for humanity.
Cutting across party lines, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Saturday condemned the recent assassination attempt on the life of ruling National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah and demanded a judicial probe into the incident.
National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday voiced grave concern over the rapidly escalating conflict in West Asia, urging global powers to act with urgency and responsibility to prevent a deeper crisis that could destabilise the world order.
The attempted shooting of Dr Farooq Abdullah at a wedding reception in Jammu is more than a shocking moment of personal danger for an elderly political leader.
The clarification comes ahead of an all-party meeting that has been convened by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, MP and the chief of National Conference chief, in Srinagar on Monday to formulate a joint strategy against the move to include ‘non-locals’ in the electoral rolls.
Srinagar Police tweeted: “There are additional police personnel deployed on certain places along the Gupkar Road in view of certain security related inputs.”
The ED tweeted, “ED has filed a Supplementary PC under PMLA, 2002 before the Spl. PMLA Court, Srinagar against Dr. Farooq Abdullah & others on 4/6/2022. The court has taken cognizance of the complaint and issued notices to the accused persons for appearance before the court on 27 August.
This, the ED alleged, had been done under direction of Abdullah, who was then the President of the JKCA and also the beneficiary of the siphoned-off funds.
The votaries of muscular policy in Kashmir, Dr Farooq observed, need to take a step back and ask themselves if such a policy has succeeded elsewhere in the world.
