Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday appealed to the Centre to find a “middle path” for ending the cycle of violence in the Valley which was consuming the lives of poor youth and security forces. Five Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists including a top commander and a university professor were killed recently in an …
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May 7, 2018In a video which has gone viral on the Internet, a Kashmiri man can be seen performing a death-defying stunt. In the video, the man is lying on a railway track as a speeding train passes over him. The terrifying video has prompted calls for strict action to prevent it from becoming a trend. The …
January 24, 2018Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday asked Pakistan to adopt a humane approach with Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav and ensure his fair trial. Expressing sadness over the treatment meted out to Jadhav’s mother and wife during their recent visit to Pakistan, she said humanity should be treated above politics. Mehbooba made the …
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December 29, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s brother Tassaduq Hussain Mufti was sworn in on Thursday as a Minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government and given the important portfolio of Tourism. The other Minister sworn in on Thursday, Javaid Mustafa Mir has been allotted relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and floriculture portfolio. Abdul Rehman Veeri, state Revenue …
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December 29, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has announced amnesty to first-time stonepelters, officials said on Thursday. In a Twitter post on Wednesday night, Mufti said: “It gives me immense satisfaction to restart the process of withdrawing FIRs against first-time offenders of stone pelting. “My government had initiated the process in May 2016 but it …
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November 23, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti flew to Srinagar on Wednesday morning from here to personally assess the damage caused due to Tuesday night’s fire to the shrine of Hazrat Amir Kabeer Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, which is popularly known as Khanqah-e-Moula. She drove straight from the airport to the shrine downtown Srinagar and …
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November 16, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday sought the intervention of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the return of the state land which is no longer required for operational purposes by the Army. Mufti had a one-on-one meeting with Sitharaman at Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district where the defence minister had come …
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November 13, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbboba Mufti today expressed grief and anguish over the killing of children in cross-border shelling by Pakistan along the LoC in Poonch district of the state. “It is very unfortunate that these teenagers became victims of fire power when they were yet to understand the nuances of politics,” she said …
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October 2, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday gave financial assistance to victims of pellet injuries during mob control in the Valley, an official statement said. Mehbooba Mufti disbursed the aid to a group of people who suffered injuries last year when security forces used pellet guns to quell the unprecedented mob violence the …
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September 28, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed Pakistan and the separatists leaders for inciting violence and planning conspiracies in the Kashmir Valley. While replying to a debate in the state assembly on last year's unrest in the Valley, Mehbooba said: "When issues like Kashmiri Pandit Colony and Sainik Colony did not work, …
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January 9, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed Pakistan and the separatists leaders for inciting violence and planning conspiracies in the Kashmir Valley. While replying to a debate in the state assembly on last year's unrest in the Valley, Mehbooba said: "When issues like Kashmiri Pandit Colony and Sainik Colony did not work, …
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January 9, 2017Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed Pakistan and the separatists leaders for inciting violence and planning conspiracies in the Kashmir Valley. While replying to a debate in the state assembly on last year's unrest in the Valley, Mehbooba said: "When issues like Kashmiri Pandit Colony and Sainik Colony did not work, …
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January 9, 2017Tasaduq Hussain Mufti, son of late Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Saturday formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) here on his father's first death anniversary. "I will work for peace and prosperity of the state where the common man and the VIPs will play and walk together", Tasaduq Hussain Mufti told …
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January 7, 2017