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  • CRPF strengthens safety for Kashmiri Pandits after assault

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: In view of the current killing of a Kashmiri Pandit in south Kashmir by militants in one more incident of targetted assaults, concrete safety preparations are being put in place for the protection of the minorities within the area and their safety might be ensured in any respect prices, a senior CRPF officer stated on Friday.

    Inspector General of CRPF (Operations), Kashmir, M S Bhatia advised reporters that the paramilitary pressure has strengthened the pickets arrange for the safety of the minority communities within the Valley.

    “We conduct regular inspections and send consistent alerts to our minority pickets,” he stated. Sanjay Sharma, a financial institution guard, was shot lifeless by militants a number of yards away from his residence at Achan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday. The incident had led to panic among the many Pandits dwelling within the Valley.

    The police officer stated that each effort was made to offer safety to all minorities in south Kashmir.“We remain in constant touch with them. Concrete arrangements are being put in place for their security and it will be ensured at all costs,” he stated.

    After Sharma’s killing, the safety within the areas that are dwelling to the minority neighborhood within the Valley has been strengthened. The patrolling by the police, paramilitary forces and Army males has been elevated within the areas the place minority neighborhood members dwell and night time patrolling by safety forces can be being performed in these areas.

    The forces have additionally arrange short-term checkpoints within the areas the place the minority neighborhood members reside and armoured automobiles stay deployed there to thrust back any militant assaults.

    Patrolling elevated in delicate areas

    The patrolling by the police, paramilitary forces and Army males have been elevated within the areas the place minority neighborhood members dwell and night time patrolling by safety forces can be being performed in these areas. The forces have additionally arrange short-term checkpoints within the areas the place the minority neighborhood members reside.

    SRINAGAR: In view of the current killing of a Kashmiri Pandit in south Kashmir by militants in one more incident of targetted assaults, concrete safety preparations are being put in place for the protection of the minorities within the area and their safety might be ensured in any respect prices, a senior CRPF officer stated on Friday.

    Inspector General of CRPF (Operations), Kashmir, M S Bhatia advised reporters that the paramilitary pressure has strengthened the pickets arrange for the safety of the minority communities within the Valley.

    “We conduct regular inspections and send consistent alerts to our minority pickets,” he stated. Sanjay Sharma, a financial institution guard, was shot lifeless by militants a number of yards away from his residence at Achan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday. The incident had led to panic among the many Pandits dwelling within the Valley.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The police officer stated that each effort was made to offer safety to all minorities in south Kashmir.“We remain in constant touch with them. Concrete arrangements are being put in place for their security and it will be ensured at all costs,” he stated.

    After Sharma’s killing, the safety within the areas that are dwelling to the minority neighborhood within the Valley has been strengthened. The patrolling by the police, paramilitary forces and Army males has been elevated within the areas the place minority neighborhood members dwell and night time patrolling by safety forces can be being performed in these areas.

    The forces have additionally arrange short-term checkpoints within the areas the place the minority neighborhood members reside and armoured automobiles stay deployed there to thrust back any militant assaults.

    Patrolling elevated in delicate areas

    The patrolling by the police, paramilitary forces and Army males have been elevated within the areas the place minority neighborhood members dwell and night time patrolling by safety forces can be being performed in these areas. The forces have additionally arrange short-term checkpoints within the areas the place the minority neighborhood members reside.

  • J&Okay: Kashmiri Pandit financial institution guard’s killer eradicated in Pulwama encounter

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: Kashmir Police, on Tuesday, stated a TRF militant concerned in current killing of Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Sharma was killed in an encounter in Awantipora space of Pulwama in south Kashmir.

    A police official stated a search operation was launched by troops at Padgampora space of Pulwama within the early hours immediately after receiving inputs about presence of militants. He stated in the course of the search operation, an encounter happened by which a neighborhood TRF militant was killed. 

    Additional Director General of Police Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar recognized the slain militant as Aqib Mushtaq Bhat of Pulwama. The killer of Pandit Sanjay Sharma has been neutralized, he stated. 

    #AwantiporaEncounterUpdate: Killed #terrorist recognized as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of #Pulwama (A class). He initially labored for HM #terror outfit, these days he had been working with TRF. #Killer of late Sanjay Sharma #neutralised: ADGP Kashmir@JmuKmrPolice https://t.co/1EdTeobWYP

    — Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) February 28, 2023

    “Aqib was an A category militant andwas initially working with Hizbul Mujahideen, but was now working with TRF,” the ADGP stated.

    ALSO READ| Kashmiri Pandit financial institution guard shot useless by terrorists cremated in J&K’s Pulwama

    Militants on Sunday morning shot useless Sanjay Sharma, a father of three, at Achen village in Pulwama whereas he was on method to a neighborhood market. His killing had evoked robust condemnation. The locals of the realm additionally strongly condemned the killing and made all preparations for cremation of physique of Sanjay.

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    SRINAGAR: Kashmir Police, on Tuesday, stated a TRF militant concerned in current killing of Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Sharma was killed in an encounter in Awantipora space of Pulwama in south Kashmir.

    A police official stated a search operation was launched by troops at Padgampora space of Pulwama within the early hours immediately after receiving inputs about presence of militants. He stated in the course of the search operation, an encounter happened by which a neighborhood TRF militant was killed. 

    Additional Director General of Police Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar recognized the slain militant as Aqib Mushtaq Bhat of Pulwama. The killer of Pandit Sanjay Sharma has been neutralized, he stated. googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    #AwantiporaEncounterUpdate: Killed #terrorist recognized as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of #Pulwama (A class). He initially labored for HM #terror outfit, these days he had been working with TRF. #Killer of late Sanjay Sharma #neutralised: ADGP Kashmir@JmuKmrPolice https://t.co/1EdTeobWYP
    — Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) February 28, 2023
    “Aqib was an A category militant andwas initially working with Hizbul Mujahideen, but was now working with TRF,” the ADGP stated.

    ALSO READ| Kashmiri Pandit financial institution guard shot useless by terrorists cremated in J&K’s Pulwama

    Militants on Sunday morning shot useless Sanjay Sharma, a father of three, at Achen village in Pulwama whereas he was on method to a neighborhood market. His killing had evoked robust condemnation. The locals of the realm additionally strongly condemned the killing and made all preparations for cremation of physique of Sanjay.

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  • Better to shut down dozen workplaces than shedding a single human life: Union Min on Pandits terror risk

    By PTI

    JAMMU: Indicating a thaw within the authorities’s stance on relocation of under-threat Kashmiri Pandit staff from the valley, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday mentioned it’s higher to save lots of a human life even when it means closing down a dozen workplaces.

    He additionally hit out on the opposition events accusing them of following the coverage of appeasement to the extent of being “inhuman”.

    He alleged that these events not solely discriminated between folks but additionally went to the extent of discriminating between Line of Control and International Border purely for vote concerns.

    “This should be addressed amicably and with sensitivity. My personal opinion is that nothing can be more valuable than a human life,” the minister advised reporters in Kathua.

    “If there is a threat even to one life, it is better to save that life even if it means closing down a dozen offices.” Singh was in Kathua to put the muse stone of central PMGSY highway from Bakhta to Magloor in Jalota space.

    ALSO READ| Chalk out center path to deal with problems with Kashmiri Pandits: Mehbooba Mufti

    Addressing a public rally after the ceremony, Singh mentioned the earlier governments headed by opposition events crossed all limits of ethics and propriety once they allowed reservation for folks dwelling alongside LoC however denied the identical advantages to the folks dwelling alongside the IB.

    “They did so because their MLAs were elected from the areas along the LoC, some of whom also became the ministers. They denied the same benefit to the people living along IB or on the Pakistan border, mostly in Kathua and Samba districts, because the people here did not vote for them,” the Union minister mentioned.

    He mentioned this discrepancy was corrected solely after the Modi authorities got here to energy when the folks dwelling close to the IB got justice with the grant of 4 per cent reservation, the identical as folks dwelling alongside LoC.

    ALSO READ| Kashmiri Pandits maintain barefoot march in Jammu, demand to make sure their ‘Right to Life’

    Singh additionally mentioned the federal government was making efforts to arrange a satellite tv for pc hospital and Tata Cancer Centre in Kathua.

    “This will provide the latest hi-tech facility for cancer patients from J&K, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.”

    ALSO READ| Will flip colonies into ‘graveyards’, militants to Pandits

    On Keedian Gandyal bridge, he mentioned it was not constructed during the last 70 years as a result of it will have benefitted mere 2,000 folks, however “we had the courage and conviction to construct a bridge for these people at a cost of over Rs 150 Crore”.

    Along the route of the holy Machil Yatra earlier than 2014 there have been neither bogs, nor cellular connectivity, nor electrical energy as a result of these folks didn’t determine of their checklist of the vote financial institution, he mentioned.

    ALSO READ| Nine Kashmiri Pandits killed in Jammu and Kashmir in 3 years: Govt

    “It is this government which set up toilets and mobile towers there and recently sanctioned one exclusive solar power plant for the village,” he added.

    Referring to one of many first Industrial Biotech Parks which has been arrange in Kathua, Singh mentioned folks will realise its price over a time frame.

    He mentioned that because of the Modi authorities the Shahpur Kandi mission was revived after 40 years, and the Ujh multipurpose irrigation mission, which was conceived for the first-time throughout Maharaja’s rule, can be scheduled to take off very quickly.

    JAMMU: Indicating a thaw within the authorities’s stance on relocation of under-threat Kashmiri Pandit staff from the valley, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday mentioned it’s higher to save lots of a human life even when it means closing down a dozen workplaces.

    He additionally hit out on the opposition events accusing them of following the coverage of appeasement to the extent of being “inhuman”.

    He alleged that these events not solely discriminated between folks but additionally went to the extent of discriminating between Line of Control and International Border purely for vote concerns.

    “This should be addressed amicably and with sensitivity. My personal opinion is that nothing can be more valuable than a human life,” the minister advised reporters in Kathua.

    “If there is a threat even to one life, it is better to save that life even if it means closing down a dozen offices.” Singh was in Kathua to put the muse stone of central PMGSY highway from Bakhta to Magloor in Jalota space.

    ALSO READ| Chalk out center path to deal with problems with Kashmiri Pandits: Mehbooba Mufti

    Addressing a public rally after the ceremony, Singh mentioned the earlier governments headed by opposition events crossed all limits of ethics and propriety once they allowed reservation for folks dwelling alongside LoC however denied the identical advantages to the folks dwelling alongside the IB.

    “They did so because their MLAs were elected from the areas along the LoC, some of whom also became the ministers. They denied the same benefit to the people living along IB or on the Pakistan border, mostly in Kathua and Samba districts, because the people here did not vote for them,” the Union minister mentioned.

    He mentioned this discrepancy was corrected solely after the Modi authorities got here to energy when the folks dwelling close to the IB got justice with the grant of 4 per cent reservation, the identical as folks dwelling alongside LoC.

    ALSO READ| Kashmiri Pandits maintain barefoot march in Jammu, demand to make sure their ‘Right to Life’

    Singh additionally mentioned the federal government was making efforts to arrange a satellite tv for pc hospital and Tata Cancer Centre in Kathua.

    “This will provide the latest hi-tech facility for cancer patients from J&K, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.”

    ALSO READ| Will flip colonies into ‘graveyards’, militants to Pandits

    On Keedian Gandyal bridge, he mentioned it was not constructed during the last 70 years as a result of it will have benefitted mere 2,000 folks, however “we had the courage and conviction to construct a bridge for these people at a cost of over Rs 150 Crore”.

    Along the route of the holy Machil Yatra earlier than 2014 there have been neither bogs, nor cellular connectivity, nor electrical energy as a result of these folks didn’t determine of their checklist of the vote financial institution, he mentioned.

    ALSO READ| Nine Kashmiri Pandits killed in Jammu and Kashmir in 3 years: Govt

    “It is this government which set up toilets and mobile towers there and recently sanctioned one exclusive solar power plant for the village,” he added.

    Referring to one of many first Industrial Biotech Parks which has been arrange in Kathua, Singh mentioned folks will realise its price over a time frame.

    He mentioned that because of the Modi authorities the Shahpur Kandi mission was revived after 40 years, and the Ujh multipurpose irrigation mission, which was conceived for the first-time throughout Maharaja’s rule, can be scheduled to take off very quickly.

  • Chalk out center path to deal with problems with Kashmiri Pandits: Mehbooba Mufti

    By PTI

    JAMMU: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Saturday stated as a substitute of giving migrant Kashmiri Pandit staff an ultimatum to affix their responsibility, the Jammu and Kashmir administration ought to chalk out a center path making an allowance for the current focused killings within the Valley.

    The migrant Kashmiri Pandit and Jammu-based reserved class staff left the Valley in May following the focused killings of two colleagues.

    They are in search of relocation exterior Kashmir.

    However, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha final Wednesday asserted that each one vital measures had been taken to make sure the protection of minority group staff, together with Kashmiri Pandits, within the Valley and despatched out a “loud and clear” message to these demanding a switch no wage for sitting at dwelling.

    Interacting with reporters on Saturday, Mufti stated, “The administration needs to know their problems and try to resolve those. Giving an ultimatum to join otherwise, your salaries will be stopped is wrong.”

    Everyone, together with the Pandits, has suffered rather a lot however the authorities ought to consider the current (focused) killings of the group members.

    Mufti stated the administration ought to settle for their demand in the intervening time to supply them with a breather.

    “When they are satisfied that the situation in Kashmir has improved, they will return but should not be compelled like this,” she stated.

    The authorities should chalk out a center approach in session with the protesting staff who’re very perturbed over the previous a number of months and are dealing with super hardships, the PDP chief stated.

    JAMMU: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Saturday stated as a substitute of giving migrant Kashmiri Pandit staff an ultimatum to affix their responsibility, the Jammu and Kashmir administration ought to chalk out a center path making an allowance for the current focused killings within the Valley.

    The migrant Kashmiri Pandit and Jammu-based reserved class staff left the Valley in May following the focused killings of two colleagues.

    They are in search of relocation exterior Kashmir.

    However, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha final Wednesday asserted that each one vital measures had been taken to make sure the protection of minority group staff, together with Kashmiri Pandits, within the Valley and despatched out a “loud and clear” message to these demanding a switch no wage for sitting at dwelling.

    Interacting with reporters on Saturday, Mufti stated, “The administration needs to know their problems and try to resolve those. Giving an ultimatum to join otherwise, your salaries will be stopped is wrong.”

    Everyone, together with the Pandits, has suffered rather a lot however the authorities ought to consider the current (focused) killings of the group members.

    Mufti stated the administration ought to settle for their demand in the intervening time to supply them with a breather.

    “When they are satisfied that the situation in Kashmir has improved, they will return but should not be compelled like this,” she stated.

    The authorities should chalk out a center approach in session with the protesting staff who’re very perturbed over the previous a number of months and are dealing with super hardships, the PDP chief stated.

  • Emotional scenes at cremation of slain Kashmiri pandit in Jammu

    By PTI

    JAMMU: Emotions ran excessive because the mortal stays of a slain Kashmiri pandit have been consigned to flames right here on Sunday with the grief-stricken group expressing anger towards the alleged failure of the federal government to cease selective killings by terrorists within the Valley.

    Puran Krishan Bhat was gunned down by terrorists on Saturday exterior his ancestral home within the Chowdhary Gund space of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, the place he had gone to take care of his orchards.

    The physique of the deceased was acquired by the wailing family members at his Muthi residence in Jammu late Saturday night time.

    Amid chants of high-pitch sloganeering towards Pakistan, 1000’s of mourners joined Bhat’s two youngsters — Shriya (daughter) and Shanu (son) — and different family members on the Ban Talab crematory Sunday to bid a tearful adieu to him.

    They additionally demanded sufficient compensation to the household, together with Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and a authorities job for the spouse of the deceased, moreover instant relocation of Hindu staff exterior the valley until the safety scenario turns into regular.

    As the physique reached the cremation floor, a number of of Bhat’s family members broke down. Shriya was seen kissing the physique profusely to say goodbye to her father along with her youthful brother, a Class 5 scholar, staring on the corpse.

    The mourners additionally raised slogans towards the administration for its alleged failure to cease focused killings within the valley, quickly after Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar, together with different senior police and civil officers, reached the cremation floor.

    “It could be very unlucky that yet another Kashmiri pandit fell to the bullets of terrorists, exposing the false claims of the federal government about enchancment within the safety scenario.

    ALSO READ | Kashmiri Pandit gunned down by militants in Valley, third in final 5 months

    He is the 18th minority group member shot useless over the previous two years,” Satish Kumar, a relative of the deceased, mentioned.

    He mentioned a police submit and a military camp are positioned close by the place Bhat was assassinated, indicating that the safety scenario within the valley has limped again to the early Nineteen Nineties.

    Another relative of Bhat, who had come from Shopian accompanying the physique of the deceased, mentioned they really feel it was their greatest mistake to not go away the valley after the eruption of terrorism.

    Vikram Koul, a member of Kashmiri Pandit volunteers, mentioned the federal government should instantly announce a compensation of Rs 50 lakh and a job for the household of the deceased.

    “We also request the government to immediately relocate all the Hindus from the valley as it has failed to provide security to them,” he added.

    Chairman of Panun Kashmir Ajay Chrungoo castigated the federal government for the continued killing of Hindus in Kashmir and mentioned they’re caught between genocidal conflict unleashed on them by jihadi forces with the state of Pakistan as its prime abettor and the denial of genocide by authorities of India.

    The authorities should go the ‘Prevention of Genocide and Atrocities Bill’ as proposed by the Panun Kashmir, he mentioned.

    Panun Kashmir convener Agnishekhar mentioned all claims of normalcy in Kashmir have fallen flat in view of the continued killings of the members of the minority group.

    “Tourist arrivals and shooting of films are no signs of normalcy. The real normalcy will be when we (Kashmiri pandits) are able to move freely and re-settle there without any fear,” he mentioned.

    JAMMU: Emotions ran excessive because the mortal stays of a slain Kashmiri pandit have been consigned to flames right here on Sunday with the grief-stricken group expressing anger towards the alleged failure of the federal government to cease selective killings by terrorists within the Valley.

    Puran Krishan Bhat was gunned down by terrorists on Saturday exterior his ancestral home within the Chowdhary Gund space of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, the place he had gone to take care of his orchards.

    The physique of the deceased was acquired by the wailing family members at his Muthi residence in Jammu late Saturday night time.

    Amid chants of high-pitch sloganeering towards Pakistan, 1000’s of mourners joined Bhat’s two youngsters — Shriya (daughter) and Shanu (son) — and different family members on the Ban Talab crematory Sunday to bid a tearful adieu to him.

    They additionally demanded sufficient compensation to the household, together with Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and a authorities job for the spouse of the deceased, moreover instant relocation of Hindu staff exterior the valley until the safety scenario turns into regular.

    As the physique reached the cremation floor, a number of of Bhat’s family members broke down. Shriya was seen kissing the physique profusely to say goodbye to her father along with her youthful brother, a Class 5 scholar, staring on the corpse.

    The mourners additionally raised slogans towards the administration for its alleged failure to cease focused killings within the valley, quickly after Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar, together with different senior police and civil officers, reached the cremation floor.

    “It could be very unlucky that yet another Kashmiri pandit fell to the bullets of terrorists, exposing the false claims of the federal government about enchancment within the safety scenario.

    ALSO READ | Kashmiri Pandit gunned down by militants in Valley, third in final 5 months

    He is the 18th minority group member shot useless over the previous two years,” Satish Kumar, a relative of the deceased, mentioned.

    He mentioned a police submit and a military camp are positioned close by the place Bhat was assassinated, indicating that the safety scenario within the valley has limped again to the early Nineteen Nineties.

    Another relative of Bhat, who had come from Shopian accompanying the physique of the deceased, mentioned they really feel it was their greatest mistake to not go away the valley after the eruption of terrorism.

    Vikram Koul, a member of Kashmiri Pandit volunteers, mentioned the federal government should instantly announce a compensation of Rs 50 lakh and a job for the household of the deceased.

    “We also request the government to immediately relocate all the Hindus from the valley as it has failed to provide security to them,” he added.

    Chairman of Panun Kashmir Ajay Chrungoo castigated the federal government for the continued killing of Hindus in Kashmir and mentioned they’re caught between genocidal conflict unleashed on them by jihadi forces with the state of Pakistan as its prime abettor and the denial of genocide by authorities of India.

    The authorities should go the ‘Prevention of Genocide and Atrocities Bill’ as proposed by the Panun Kashmir, he mentioned.

    Panun Kashmir convener Agnishekhar mentioned all claims of normalcy in Kashmir have fallen flat in view of the continued killings of the members of the minority group.

    “Tourist arrivals and shooting of films are no signs of normalcy. The real normalcy will be when we (Kashmiri pandits) are able to move freely and re-settle there without any fear,” he mentioned.

  • Angry Kashmiri Pandits block Jammu highway to protest newest goal killing by terrorists

    By PTI

    JAMMU: Hundreds of protesting displaced Kashmiri Pandit staff, who’re searching for their relocation from the valley, on Saturday blocked the Jammu-Akhnoor highway to protest the most recent focused killing of their group member by terrorists within the valley.

    Puran Krishan Bhat was fired upon by terrorists close to his residence within the Chowdhary Gund space of south Kashmir’s Shopian district this afternoon, leading to his demise.

    The Pandits, employed underneath Prime Minister’s employment bundle, are on protest on the aid commissioner’s workplace in Jammu over the previous 5 months following the killing of their colleague Rahul Bhat in Kashmir final May.

    As the information of the most recent killing of Kashmiri Pandit broke out, they got here out of the protest website and marched in the direction of the primary highway and blocked the freeway, amid high-pitch sloganeering to denounce the goal killings by terrorists and the alleged failure of the federal government to cope with the scenario.

    “Our worst fears have once again come true with the latest killing. We have already fled the valley otherwise we feel many of us have been done to death, one of the protesters,” Nikhil Kaul mentioned.

    He mentioned they’ve been saying that the scenario within the valley is just not secure for them however this authorities remained unmoved and paid no heed to their pleas for relocation.

     Yogesh Pandit, one other protester, mentioned “the administration is trying to pressure them to rejoin their duties by issuing death warrants in the form of making biometric attendance mandatory and stopping their salaries.”

    “The killing of Bhat exposed the government’s claims about the improved security situation in the valley. We will not return till the situation becomes normal in the true sense,” he mentioned.

    Pandit mentioned they’ve tried to achieve the federal government via memorandums and protests for his or her relocation from the valley following the sequence of focused killings over the previous one yr.

    “This government is deaf, dumb and blind,” the agitated Pandit mentioned, asking what was their fault for which they’re being brutally killed by terrorists.

    Rashtriya Bajrang Dal activist additionally joined the protesters and set ablaze an effigy of Pakistan to sentence the frequent goal killings by terrorists within the valley.

    JAMMU: Hundreds of protesting displaced Kashmiri Pandit staff, who’re searching for their relocation from the valley, on Saturday blocked the Jammu-Akhnoor highway to protest the most recent focused killing of their group member by terrorists within the valley.

    Puran Krishan Bhat was fired upon by terrorists close to his residence within the Chowdhary Gund space of south Kashmir’s Shopian district this afternoon, leading to his demise.

    The Pandits, employed underneath Prime Minister’s employment bundle, are on protest on the aid commissioner’s workplace in Jammu over the previous 5 months following the killing of their colleague Rahul Bhat in Kashmir final May.

    As the information of the most recent killing of Kashmiri Pandit broke out, they got here out of the protest website and marched in the direction of the primary highway and blocked the freeway, amid high-pitch sloganeering to denounce the goal killings by terrorists and the alleged failure of the federal government to cope with the scenario.

    “Our worst fears have once again come true with the latest killing. We have already fled the valley otherwise we feel many of us have been done to death, one of the protesters,” Nikhil Kaul mentioned.

    He mentioned they’ve been saying that the scenario within the valley is just not secure for them however this authorities remained unmoved and paid no heed to their pleas for relocation.

     Yogesh Pandit, one other protester, mentioned “the administration is trying to pressure them to rejoin their duties by issuing death warrants in the form of making biometric attendance mandatory and stopping their salaries.”

    “The killing of Bhat exposed the government’s claims about the improved security situation in the valley. We will not return till the situation becomes normal in the true sense,” he mentioned.

    Pandit mentioned they’ve tried to achieve the federal government via memorandums and protests for his or her relocation from the valley following the sequence of focused killings over the previous one yr.

    “This government is deaf, dumb and blind,” the agitated Pandit mentioned, asking what was their fault for which they’re being brutally killed by terrorists.

    Rashtriya Bajrang Dal activist additionally joined the protesters and set ablaze an effigy of Pakistan to sentence the frequent goal killings by terrorists within the valley.

  • Kashmiri Pandit shot lifeless by militants in J-K’s Shopian

    By Associated Press

    SRINAGAR: Assailants on Saturday fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in violence police blamed on militants combating in opposition to Indian rule within the disputed area.

    Police mentioned militants fired at Puran Krishan Bhat, who’s from the minority neighborhood of Kashmiri Hindus, at his dwelling within the southern Shopian district. He was taken to a hospital the place he died, police mentioned in a press release.

    Police and troopers cordoned off the world and launched a seek for the attackers. In August, an area Hindu man was killed and his brother was injured in Shopian in a capturing that police additionally blamed on insurgents. Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan and is claimed by each of their entirety.

    ALSO READ | Angry Kashmiri Pandits block Jammu highway to protest newest goal killing by terrorists

    Rebels within the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been combating New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris help the insurgent objective of uniting the territory, both beneath Pakistani rule or as an unbiased nation.

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    India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the cost, and most Kashmiris contemplate it a reputable freedom battle. Tens of 1000’s of civilians, rebels and authorities forces have been killed within the battle.

    Kashmir has witnessed a spate of focused killings since October final yr. Several Hindus, together with immigrant staff from Indian states, have been killed. Police say the killings — together with that of Muslim village councillors, law enforcement officials and civilians — have been carried out by anti-India rebels.

    The spate of killings comes as Indian troops have continued their counterinsurgency operations throughout the area amid a clampdown on dissent and press freedom, which critics have likened to a militaristic coverage. Kashmir’s minority Hindus, who’re domestically often known as Pandits, have lengthy fretted over their place within the area.

    Most of an estimated 200,000 of them fled Kashmir within the Nineteen Nineties when an armed revolt in opposition to Indian rule started. Some 4,000 returned after 2010 as a part of a authorities resettlement plan that supplied them with jobs and housing.

    SRINAGAR: Assailants on Saturday fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in violence police blamed on militants combating in opposition to Indian rule within the disputed area.

    Police mentioned militants fired at Puran Krishan Bhat, who’s from the minority neighborhood of Kashmiri Hindus, at his dwelling within the southern Shopian district. He was taken to a hospital the place he died, police mentioned in a press release.

    Police and troopers cordoned off the world and launched a seek for the attackers. In August, an area Hindu man was killed and his brother was injured in Shopian in a capturing that police additionally blamed on insurgents. Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan and is claimed by each of their entirety.

    ALSO READ | Angry Kashmiri Pandits block Jammu highway to protest newest goal killing by terrorists

    Rebels within the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been combating New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris help the insurgent objective of uniting the territory, both beneath Pakistani rule or as an unbiased nation.

    WATCH:

    India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the cost, and most Kashmiris contemplate it a reputable freedom battle. Tens of 1000’s of civilians, rebels and authorities forces have been killed within the battle.

    Kashmir has witnessed a spate of focused killings since October final yr. Several Hindus, together with immigrant staff from Indian states, have been killed. Police say the killings — together with that of Muslim village councillors, law enforcement officials and civilians — have been carried out by anti-India rebels.

    The spate of killings comes as Indian troops have continued their counterinsurgency operations throughout the area amid a clampdown on dissent and press freedom, which critics have likened to a militaristic coverage. Kashmir’s minority Hindus, who’re domestically often known as Pandits, have lengthy fretted over their place within the area.

    Most of an estimated 200,000 of them fled Kashmir within the Nineteen Nineties when an armed revolt in opposition to Indian rule started. Some 4,000 returned after 2010 as a part of a authorities resettlement plan that supplied them with jobs and housing.

  • Month on, Pandit staffers skip duties

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR:  One  month after the Kashmiri Pandit worker Rahul Bhat was shot useless by militants inside Tehsil Office in Budgam, about 5,500 Pandit workers recruited beneath PM’s job package deal have stayed away from the federal government duties to demand relocation to Jammu.

    “The targeted killings have caused fear among the community,” mentioned a Pandit worker, Ashu Pandita (identify modified). “When we fear to move out of the transit camps, how will we work? That’s why we are demanding relocation to Jammu till the situation improves in the Valley,” he added.

    The meals and civil provides division, Ganderbal, had on Monday directed the workers to renew their duties on June 16. However, Ashu mentioned the order has been withdrawn and the federal government is more likely to take a name after the Amarnath yatra.

    “If the yatra passes off peacefully, then the government will decide on resumption of our duties,” he mentioned.
    Another worker, Ranjan, mentioned these stationed within the Valley are confined to the transit camps. “It is better for the government to relocate us to Jammu for 2-3 years. We will return once the situation improves here,” he mentioned.
     

  • Anything lower than Jammu relocation unacceptable, say Pandit staffers as authorities approves promotions

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir authorities Wednesday authorized a scheme for the promotion of Kashmiri Pandit (KP) staff engaged beneath the Prime Minister’s job bundle however the agitating Pandit staff stated their’s is a safety concern and so they gained’t settle for something lower than relocation to Jammu.

    The Administrative Council (AC), which met right here right this moment beneath the chairmanship of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, authorized the scheme for the promotion of PM bundle staff, an official spokesman stated.

    The scheme envisages sustaining separate seniority for KP staff appointed beneath the PM bundle, by respective appointing departments which can run parallel to the seniority of normal staff and can take impact from the date of appointment towards the supernumerary posts beneath the PM Package.

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    However, the KP staff recruited beneath PM’s bundle stated it’s an administration challenge whereas their demand considerations safety.

    “We are demanding relocation to Jammu after the recent targeted killings in the Valley. There is total fear in the Valley and we don’t consider ourselves safe in Kashmir. It is better for the administration to send our posts to Jammu,” stated a Kashmiri Pandit worker, pleading anonymity.

    He stated they gained’t settle for something lower than relocation to Jammu.

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    The government-sanctioned creation of pre-facto supernumerary posts at corresponding greater ranges to pave means for well timed profession development of migrant KP staff, by decreasing the supernumerary posts at decrease ranges in the identical ratio.

    However, these promotions shall be based mostly on seniority and eligibility necessities as per the recruitment guidelines.

    The authorities has additionally re-designated all posts beneath the PM Package as divisional stage posts within the Kashmir division.

    ALSO READ: Protests demanding switch of Pandits, Dogra staff from Kashmir proceed

    “The implementation of the scheme will be monitored at the highest level to ensure that the eligible employees avail the benefits of the scheme at the earliest,” the official spokesman stated.

    As per PM’s job bundle, which was rolled out in 2008-09, employment has been supplied to about 6000 Pandit youth.

    The fear-stricken Pandit staff are demanding relocation to Jammu after the latest spate of focused killings by militants within the Valley. Five non-Muslims together with a Kashmiri Pandit, two minority neighborhood members from Jammu, a financial institution supervisor from Rajasthan and a labourer from Bihar have been shot useless by militants in Kashmir since May.

    Kashmir Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS), a Kashmiri Pandit group, termed the promotion scheme an “eyewash”.

    “#EyeWash #Promotion is a right and not a dole. @OfficeOfLGJandK isn’t this unusual, when #PackageEmployees submitted #representations about this issue, you gave #ColdShoulder to them and now this approval just to dislodge their protest exposes #Administrations’ mean and scary face (sic),” tweeted KPSS.

  • J-Okay: Kashmiri Pandits take out ‘Thali Bajao’ protest march over Rahul Bhat’s killing

    By PTI

    SRINAGAR: Kashmiri Pandit workers on Tuesday took out a march within the Anantnag district and banged utensils as a part of a ‘Thali Bajao’ protest towards the killing of Rahul Bhat final week.

    Bhat, who had received the job of a clerk beneath the particular employment bundle for migrants in 2010-11, was gunned down by terrorists contained in the tehsil workplace in Chadoora city of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday.

    Braving rains, the protestors beneath the banner of All PM Package Employees Forum marched on the freeway banging utensils and elevating slogans demanding justice.

    Earlier within the day, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar had visited the Kashmiri Pandits at their protest web site and mentioned that terrorists can goal them in the event that they stayed on street.

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday advocated pro-active coordinated counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir as he held three back-to-back conferences to assessment the scenario there in addition to preparations for the forthcoming Amarnath Yatra and requested safety forces to make sure zero cross-border infiltration to wipe out terrorism within the union territory.

    The marathon conferences held by the house minister got here within the backdrop of latest focused killings within the valley which included a Kashmiri pandit Rahul Bhat, who was gunned down by terrorists final week.

    During the conferences, which was attended by Lt Governor of JK Manoj Sinha, police chief Dibag Singh and different high central and union territory officers, Shah was knowledgeable that this yr’s 42-day-long yatra, starting on June 30, can have a Radio Frequency Identification Card (RFID) for each pilgrim in addition to an insurance coverage cowl of Rs 5 lakh.

    While Sinha was current in all of the three conferences, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande attended the conferences to debate the safety scenario within the union territory.

    An official spokesman in a press release mentioned the house minister directed safety forces and the police to conduct coordinated counter-terrorism operations pro-actively.

    The residence minister mentioned as a way to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of a affluent and peaceable Jammu and Kashmir, safety forces ought to guarantee zero cross-border infiltration to wipe out terrorism within the union territory.

    In one other assertion, the spokesman mentioned the JK chief secretary knowledgeable the assembly that every pilgrim might be supplied with a RFID and might be insured with Rs 5 lakh.

    Earlier, RFID was supplied to autos solely.

    Shah mentioned a “hassle-free” journey for the pilgrims is a precedence of the Modi authorities and directed that each one preparations, together with further electrical energy, water, and telecom amenities be made.

    He additionally burdened for enhancement of cell connectivity alongside the yatra route as he directed that earth shifting tools must be positioned at vantage factors to clear the route in case of landslides.

    This is the primary yatra after the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result of excessive altitude, sufficient preparations must be made for yatris who’ve any health-related issues, he mentioned.

    The residence minister requested for an sufficient variety of oxygen cylinders, medical beds at an altitude of greater than 6,000 toes and deployment of ambulances and helicopters to cope with any emergency medical scenario.

    All classes of transport providers must be elevated through the Amarnath Yatra for the comfort of passengers.

    During the assembly, it was additionally determined to allow WiFi hotspots to make sure connectivity all through the 39 km of the yatra route from Pahalgam in south Kashmir.

    The different route is thru Baltal in central Kashmir the place a pilgrim treks for practically 15 km.

    The yatra, which presents a giant safety problem for the federal government, couldn’t happen in 2020 and 2021 as a result of coronavirus pandemic and was minimize quick in 2019 simply earlier than the abrogation of Article 370.

    About three lakh pilgrims are probably to participate within the pilgrimage that’s anticipated to finish on August 11.

    About 12,000 paramilitary personnel (120 firms) along with Jammu and Kashmir Police are anticipated to be deployed alongside the 2 pilgrimage routes, one from Pahalgam and the opposite by way of Baltal, officers mentioned.

    Drone cameras will assist the safety forces to make sure the safety of the pilgrims.

    Besides the Amarnath pilgrimage, the conferences additionally reviewed the safety association particularly within the wake of a number of focused killings, together with of Kashmiri Pandits, in Kashmir.

    There has been a spurt in assaults on non-Muslims and outsiders dwelling within the Kashmir valley because the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in August 2019 which accorded particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir.

    The safety assessment comes following a spate of killings within the union territory.

    On May 12, Bhat, a authorities worker, was killed by terrorists inside his workplace in Budgam district.

    A day after, police constable Reyaz Ahmad Thokar was shot lifeless by terrorists at his residence within the Pulwama district.

    Also final week, 4 pilgrims have been killed and not less than 20 injured when the bus they have been travelling in caught fireplace close to Katra in Jammu.

    Police suspect a sticky bomb might need been used to set off the fireplace.

    Bhat’s killing triggered protests by members of the Kashmiri Pandit group who staged protests within the Valley demanding enhanced safety and switch of presidency workers to safer places.

    On Sunday, the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a conglomerate of main J-Okay events, urged Kashmiri Pandit workers to not go away the Valley because it was their residence and it could be painful for all.

    Top officers of the ministries of well being, telecom, street transport, civil aviation and IT took half within the assembly to debate logistics for the annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine devoted to Lord Shiva at an altitude of three,888 metres.