Kashmir
Young Ace footballer Amir Siraj from Sopore goes missing, Fa...
Peerzada Waseem
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | Peerzada Waseem | July 2:A 22-year-old ace footballer from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district has gone missing, family said on Thursday while seeking the help from the administration in tracing out their beloved. The family members of ace-footballer from Sopore said that their beloved is missing since June 24. They have urged their son to return home and appealed the government to help them in tracing him. Amir Siraj went missing on June 24 at his maternal uncle’s...
Don’t sell any land or property to outsiders:Hurriyat(M) t...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | July 1:All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) executive members Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhat and Bilal Ghani lone called on ailing executive member and former APHC chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari to check on his deteriorating health at his residence and later held a meeting there. Executive member Masroor Abbas Ansari also participated in the meeting while APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq could not attend as he continues to be under arbitrary house arrest since August 2019. In a Statement...
Kashmir: Heartbreaking Pictures show 3-year-old crying over ...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | July 1:Heartbreaking pictures of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the motionless body of his grandfather in Kashmir’s Sopore has emerged from an encounter site. The 60-year-old man was a civilian who was killed in the cross-firing on Wednesday morning in Kashmir when an encounter broke out between militants and security forces. Bashir Ahmed Khan, 65, took his grandson along early this morning for a long ride from Srinagar to Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, where...
Syed Ali Shah Geelani Quits Hurriyat Conference...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 29:Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the face of Kashmir’s separatist politics over the last three decades, has announced his resignation from Hurriyat Conference, the biggest separatist amalgam in Kashmir. The 90-year-old was a lifelong chairman of the Hurriyat. In an audio message, Syed Ali Shah Geelani said he was announcing his resignation from the All Party Hurriyat Conference because of “the current circumstances” in the umbrella group. “In view of...
Relief for parents:PSAJK announces mega fee waiver scheme fo...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 27:Private Schools’ Association of J&K (PSAJK) after lengthy deliberations with Parents Association of Privately Administered Schools (PAPAS), trade bodies and representatives of tourism, transporters and other sectors have decided to announce a major fee waiver scheme for students, whose family income has been severely impacted by the present COVID19 lockdown. The press conference was attended by G N Var President PSAJK, Sheikh Ashiq, President KCCI, Asma Goni Convener...
Report:25,000 granted domicile certificates in J&K...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 26:As many as 25,000 people including a senior IAS officer have been granted domicile certificates in Jammu and Kashmir, reports said on Friday. The certificate allows non-locals to buy land, get education and jobs in Jammu and Kashmir which prior to this were reserved only for the permanent residents of the erstwhile state. Navin Kumar Choudhary, a senior J&K cadre IAS officer from Bihar is among those who have been given the certificate. “This is to certify that Shri...
Agha Kashmiri an unsung Ayatollah...
Aga Syed Amin
( Jammu and Kashmir )
The spread of Islam in Kashmir by the Sufi saints has always been discussed by various scholars, academics, writers, historians and believers. The impact of Sufism on the culture of the beautiful place has been alluring and has always enhanced the beauty of Kashmir. Beyond the known Kashmir, the mountain ranges, the green meadows, and the water bodies, there is a different world. Special Feature Report of Wilayat Times by Aga Syed Amin The spread of Islam in Kashmir...
Ehsaas International to strip the golden lace to educational...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 21:Ragging from every laborious heroism Ehsaas once yet in speedy train to reach to poverty stricken miserable breed of starving students to explore its alchemy’s benevolence of Jesus’s aiming at blooming the rosy cheeks. Wilayat Times reports, Today’s Ehsaas International mirth can be summed up , delivering educational kits among penniless students, by awaking them about major questions and concerns related myriad tined opportunism, mostly in trams if serpentine...
Mutahida Majlis Ulema opposes opening of liquor shops in J&#...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 21: Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), One of the strongest and influential amalgam of all religions and socio-religious organizations across the valley headed by incarcerated Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Dr.Umar Farooq which include Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid, Darul Uloom Raheemiya, Muslim Personal Law Board, Anjuman Sharian Shian, Jamiat Ahle Hadeeth, Jamaat-e-Islami, Karwaan-e-Islami, Itihaad-ul-Muslimeen, Anjuman Himaayat-ul-Islam, Anjuman Tableegh-ul-Islam, Jamiat Hamdania, Anjuman...
J&K Govt to open 187 new liquor shops in UT, 67 in Kash...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 20: After nearly three decades, the Jammu and Kashmir government identified 183 places in the Union Territory that includes 116 in Jammu and 67 in the Valley for opening of liquor shops. Accordting to the documents available with Wilayat Times, includes an order issued from the office of Excise commissioner Jammu and Kashmir submitted to the Financial Commissioner, Finance department, Civil Secretariat. The order reads: “It is submitted that this office has divided the J&K...