As the bone-chilling winter descends upon the Himalayas and the 40-day period of Chillai Kalan grips Jammu and Kashmir, sources in the defence establishment have said that the Indian Army has intensified its counter-terrorism operations across the Kishtwar and Doda districts.
The four Rajya Sabha seats are vacant since February 2021 after which election to these seats could not be held in the absence of the assembly in J&K that was made a union territory in August 2019.
He accused the authorities of misusing a law meant to deal with terrorists against an elected representative, terming the move an attack on democratic rights.
The BJP-led government at the Centre seems unwilling to ease its grip over Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba said in her reaction on X.
The restriction will be enforced daily from 10 PM to 5 AM for the next two months, unless withdrawn earlier.
The all-party meeting in Srinagar on Thursday unanimously supported the steps taken against Pakistan by the central government in retaliation against the Pahalgam terrorist attack in which 26 persons were killed.
Denying that the Pahalgam terror attack was an intelligence failure, former Indian Army Generals have categorically called Wednesday’s massacre a Pakistan Army-sponsored strike—an attack not only on tourists but also on local Kashmiris, who will bear the maximum brunt.
The CM’s remarks came as the search operation against the holed up terrorists in Saniyal village of Hiranagar in Kathua district continued on the second day on Monday, but there was no exchange of fire between the security forces and terrorists in the night that has given an impression that the terrorists might have escaped.
Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra lashed out at the central government and the LG administration for being "clueless" even as the law and order situation in the upper reaches of Kathua district is worsening.
Stressing a fine balance between technology and arts, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday emphasized the important role of artists and intelligentsia in promoting education based on local culture, moral values and traditional knowledge.
