Kashmir
Asia’s largest tulip garden open for tourists in Srina...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar: Asia’s largest Tulip Garden was thrown open for visitors on Sunday. Located at the foot of Zabarwan hills, the garden is flanked by the manicured, lush green golf course in the north and the pristine Dal Lake at its entrance on the west.Spread over 360 kanals of picturesque land, the Tulip Garden is surrounded by the Mughal-era Chashm-e-Shahi garden and Pari Mahal observatory.This year, the Floriculture Department has planted about 50 varieties of Tulips on 200 kanals of land at the...
Alama Hami Urges Ulemas to forge unity to defeat forces trig...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:Karawan-e-Islami patron Alama Ghulam Rasool Hami urged the Ulema and Islamic Scholars to refrain from holding or organizing sectarian debates (Munazira) stating that Kashmiri nation has been already bleeding and entering into sectarian debates to wherein some people resort to mudslinging on great Sufi saints amounts to rubbing salt on the wounds of people of Kashmir.
In a Statement to Wilayat Times,While interacting with the prominent Ulemas, general executive body of Karwani Islami,...
Syed Ali Geelani terms Pakistan as ‘centre of hope’ of M...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani on Friday termed Pakistan as “centre of hope” of Muslim Ummah and said that the country was a great blessing for Muslims. While greeting the Pakistan government, Pakistan Army and the people of Pakistan on the Pakistan Resolution Day, Syed Ali Geelani said that the country has a political importance in the Muslim world and this country is centre of hope not only for the Sub-continent but for the whole Muslim Ummah.
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12 hours long encounter destroyed 36 years old literary work...
Ishfaq-ul-Hassan
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:On a cold Thursday afternoon, an unassuming poet Madhosh Balhami was sitting in his small library writing poetry about the marriage of Prophet Mohammad’s daughter Hazrat Fatima when three rebels, two of them armed, entered his house here.
Unable to come to terms with the situation, Madhosh, 52, put the notepad in his pocket and deserted the house along with his family for safety. Twelve hours later, the piece of paper with half-written poetry is the only prized possession of...
Yusuf Nadeem’s martyrdom is personnel loss for me as w...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:Blaming Indian agencies for killing of Mohammad Yusuf Nadeem ,Hurriyat executive council member and secretary general of Tehreek-e-Wahdat e Islami, Syed Ali Geelani said that agencies are reviving the Ikhwan culture. In an emergency meeting, Huriyat chairman (G) while paying glorious tributes to Yusuf Nadeem, said that it is a personnel loss for me and “I am deeply pained by the killing of Nadeem. I condole his demise and express my condolence to the bereaved family,” Geelani said in...
Shia Hurriyat activist Yousuf Nadeem shot dead by unknown gu...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:Yousuf Nadeem was one of the senior Shia separatist activists was shot dead when he on the way home, police said. Nadeem, an employee of PDD had boarded a Tavera and was on way from Beerwa to Budgam, police sources said, a person boarded the same vehicle and shot him dead. All other passengers deboarded the vehicle and fled the spot. Police said there are in the process of collecting more details and it will take some time. Yousuf Nadeem was a former militant of Hizbul Mumineen and...
PM Modi Is Wrong. Sardar Patel Offered Kashmir to Pakistan: ...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion in Lok Sabha on February 7, that if Sardar Patel’s line of thinking were allowed, there would be no issue on Kashmir as it would have got fully integrated with India, is “contrary to the facts of history” said professor and former Union minister Saifuddin Soz on February 9. In a statement, Soz, who is from Jammu and Kashmir, says his forthcoming book Kashmir: The Complete Story has details of this, “Patel consistently offered Kashmir to...
Aga Syed Mohammad Fazalullah passed away at Budgam Kashmir....
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu:Prominent Islamic Cleric of Kashmir Aga Syed Mohammad Fazalullah Al-Moosavi Al- Safvi passed away at 11:30 am today after the long illness in lungs at his residence in Budgam Kashmir.
President of Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian (Mohammadi faction) and Ayatollah Yousuf Trust Aga Syed Mohammad Fazalullah was born in Budgam and completed his Seminary education from Najaf in Iraq. He is a descendant of Mir Shamsuddin Araki, who came to Kashmir in the 13th century from the town of Araki in Iran.He...
Kashmiri Journalist Sajjad Haider Receives Asian-Arab Award...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu: Senior journalist of Kashmir and editor-in-chief Kashmir Observer, Sajjad Haider was presented with the Asian Arab Award 2018 for journalistic excellence in Bangalore. Sajjad Haider was presented the annual award at a high profile function attended by diplomats, business leaders and government functionaries at JW Marriott UB City. Sajjad Haider received the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution in building trust among Arab and Asian countries especially through platforms like Trans...
Make Jammu and Kashmir “bridge of friendship”: C...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu:Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today appealed to India and Pakistan to make Jammu and Kashmir a “bridge of friendship” between them and not let it become a battleground. “Our borders are witnessing, god forbid, a bloodbath. Our Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) often talks of development but at the same time something opposite is happening in our state. Our schools are shut and children are trapped inside their homes,” the chief minister said. “I appeal to our prime...