A prominent Indian-American Kashmiri group in the US has launched a letter-writing campaign appealing to US lawmakers to pressurize Pakistan into acting firmly against terrorists groups operating from its soil.
Only one displaced Kashmiri Pandit family has returned to the Valley so far, the government told Parliament on Tuesday.
Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has included Mishaal Hussain Malik, wife of jailed terrorist and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, in his cabinet.
India and Pakistan should make Kashmiris a party in the peace process, which was set in motion five years ago, according to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front."Kashmir is not a border dispute between India and Pakistan that they will sit together and resolve it and thrust the decision on Kashmiris," JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik said. "We appeal to both India and Pakistan to make Kashmiris a party in the peace process aimed at resolving the Kashmir issue," he said.
A group of Kashmiri students at a private university in Meerut were on Thursday booked for sedition after they allegedly cheered for the Pakistan team during a cricket match against India.
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Hashim Sofi, who hails from Bandipora district of Kashmir, had told the hostel's chief warden that on Friday morning, he had found the door of his room and his clothes inked with threats and abuses, an official of the institute said.
'It's a matter of great pride that no student of Army Goodwill Schools has ever joined terrorism.'
'We do not want Kashmiri Pandits to migrate from Kashmir.'
Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said a Rs 1,600 crore financial package has been sanctioned for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants.
Geelani, who was a member of banned Jamaat-e-Islami and chairman of hardline Hurriyat Conference, had been suffering from various ailments for nearly last two decades.
"Because of the political stature of Syed Ali Geelani, Prime Minister Sharif invited him to visit Pakistan and exchange views on the current situation in Kashmir," Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah told reporters in Islamabad.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday criticised Uttar Pradesh government for withdrawing sedition charges against Kashmiri students studying at a private university, saying the Samajwadi Party government is only bothered about its vote bank.
Ram Sagar were killed in a grenade attack by terrorists while they were asleep in their rented accommodation in Shopian.
The Pakistan high commission has invited Kashmiri separatist leaders for consultations with Sartaj Aziz ahead of the National Security Advisor-level talks with India in New Delhi next week.
Modi also lashed at those "demeaning" the valour displayed by the armed forces after the Jaish-e-Mohammed attack against the Central Reserve Police Force in Kashmir.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
Speaking at the Kashmir University, the prime minister said the people who support militancy in are against the basic ethos of Kashmiri culture and Sufi Islam.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked National Conference leader Mohammed Akbar Lone to file an affidavit swearing allegiance to the Constitution of India and accepting the country's sovereignty, after the 'Pakistan zindabad' slogan that he allegedly raised in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in 2018 kicked up a massive row.
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Braving the heat, hundreds of protesters, including women and children, gathered at the Jantar Mantar to protest against the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the valley.
Three Kashmiri youths were detained for questioning by the police during search operations carried out in Mumbai, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Raids were carried out in multiple hotels and lodges across Mumbai as part of security measures following serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru, the official said.
In a flip-flop, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Thursday told the assembly that his government has no plans to set up separate clusters for settlement of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
Kashmir-born US citizen, Fai, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week on charges of working for the Government of Pakistan, in particular its spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), to lobby at the Capitol Hill and the Administration on Kashmir.
Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence sponsors terrorism in Kashmir and it oversees terrorist groups there, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said in the first-ever open acknowledgment by a United States agency that Islamabad is a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'.
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Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri belonging to the radical Harakat-ul Jihad Islami group has been indicted in a United States court for the first time in connection with a plot to target a Danish newspaper which had published offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. Kashmiri was charged along with former Pakistani army major Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, who had conspired with David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussein Rana and planned to target Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The girl, a resident of Rajbagh in Srinagar city, was taken for questioning after the security staff at the airport informed the police.
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Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the United Progressive Alliance government had committed a 'diplomatic blunder' by allowing Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's advisor Sartaj Aziz to meet Kashmiri separatists on Indian soil and demanded that the talks be stopped.
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The prime minister told the cabinet that any dialogue with India without Kashmir issue would be futile.
The Indian intelligence agencies are in a sigh of relief mode over the killing of the head of the 313 Brigade Ilyas Kashmiri by a United States drone attack, given the fact that he was directly recruiting cadres from Kerala to be trained for terror in Kashmir.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday asserted that the Indian contingent will win a record number of medals in the upcoming Asian Games in Huangzhou, China.
The Bombay high court in its judgment granting bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has noted that there was no material on record to infer prima facie that he conspired to or committed any terrorist act.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday assured the country that the beginning of building a "new and developed Kashmir" that will be free from terrorism has been made under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that full statehood would be restored to Jammu and Kashmir at an appropriate time.
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