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Despite Curfew Muslims performed last rituals of Kashmiri Pa...

Srinagar:The family of Deepak Malhotra, a Kashmiri Pandit of Sheikh Mohalla, Maharaj Gung, Old City Srinagar, is one of the thousands of families of Kashmiri Pandits who did not flee Kashmir valley and bore the brunt of the situation that fellow Kashmiri Muslims have been bearing, sharing their good and bad times for the past three decades. Today Deepak Malhotra’s aging mother passed away and despite curfew and repressive situation across Kashmir, Muslims of the entire locality in general and activists...

Turkish army group announces takeover in country,Erdogancall...

Ankara:An army group in Turkey says it has taken over the country, with soldiers at strategic points in Istanbul and jets flying low in the capital, Ankara. A statement read on TV said a “peace council” now ran the country and there was a curfew and martial law. It is unclear who the group is or its level of support. Some top army officials are said to be detained. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would overcome what he called an uprising by a minority. Reports are coming of two...

Kashmir:A New Generation of Struggle...

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Once again, Kashmir is on the boil. Inspite of leadership being gagged, caged and confined, the so-called “peace” in the valley has been shattered. So far 30 youngsters, most of them teenagers, have been killed in cold-blood, hundreds are injured, many of them critically by the Indian armed forces in Kashmir. Men, women and children have been beaten up mercilessly on the streets and in their homes across Kashmir. All this has been done to “contain” the angry population of...

Pellet guns cause severe eye injuries in Kashmir...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar:Despite appeals by rights groups to stop the practice, Indian armed forces have continued to use pellet guns to quell protesters, injuring at least 100 people in the recent violence that erupted in Indian administered Kashmir. Inside the capital Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital, doctors told Al Jazeera that they had performed 100 eye surgeries in the last four days. “All of them could lose their eyesight,” one senior doctor told  on the condition of...

Kashmir Killings One more killed in firing, toll is 36...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar:The situation in Kashmir continues to be on the edge as one more youth were killed in fresh firing by cops in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, taking the death toll to 36 in five days of clashes after Hizb commander Burhan Wani’s death. One more youth has been killed a shortwhile ago in Harnag (Anantnag) after escort party of a police officer opened fire on a crowd. Sources told Rising Kashmir that one Hilal Ahmad was killed when police opened fire on a mob that resorted to heavy...

Burma:Buddhist Mob torches a Muslim mosque...

( Myanmar )

Burma:Scores of Buddhists ransacked a mosque in northern Myanmar forcing Muslims to seek refuge overnight in a police station after another violent dispute caused religious intolerance. “The problem started because the mosque was built near a (Buddhist) pagoda. The Muslim people refused to destroy the building when the Buddhists discovered it,” Moe Lwin, a local police officer, told the AFP news agency. Bouts of anti-Muslim violence have left scores dead across the country since 2012. This...

Occupation of Palestine sparked regional issues:Sheikh Al Az...

( Egypt )

Cairo:Egyptian mufti noted the occupation of Palestine as the issue which sparked other predicaments in the Middle East region stressing settling the issue of Palestine as key to achieve peace and global justice.Ahmed al Tayyeb, prominent Al Azhar sheikh, slammed the dual policy of some countries in regards to the issue of Palestine saying that issue has led to several other troubles in the Middle East region. He said,” Many of those who discuss the issue of Palestine do not practice what they...

Israel detains four UK Muslims planning to visit Aqsa...

( Palestine )

Gaza:Four British Muslims travelers recount their ordeals in Israel, which prevented them from visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque and forced them back home after keeping them in custody for days. The four, including an aid worker and a father along with his 10-year-old son, had planned to visit the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, one of Islam’s holiest sites, in the final days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the Middle East Eye reported. The passengers said that after landing at the Ben Gurion airport...

180 Killed & 200 Wounded in Iraq twin Blasts....

( Iraq )

Baghdad:The death toll from two bombings in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad at dawn Sunday jumps to 180, Iraqi security and health officials say. They said 180 people were killed and at least 200 others wounded when a car bomb went off at a busy commercial street in Baghdad’s Shia neighborhood of Karrada. The second explosion occurred at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, leaving five dead and wounding five others. In a twitter post, the Daesh terror group claimed...

Aggression on Sheikh Isa Qassim will backfire on Bahrain:Lea...

( Iran )

Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting on Saturday with a group of families of martyrs of the June 28, 1981 blast at the Islamic Republic Party headquarters as well as families of combatants who embraced martyrdom fighting holy shrines in Syria, praised the “faith, combat, valor and high cognition of martyrs” and “patience and steadfastness of the esteemed families of martyrs”. Describing the martyrs as the pillars of strength and...