Jammu And Kashmir Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the assembly seats of the union territory, is learnt to have proposed six additional seats for Jammu region and one for Kashmir Valley.
The PDP leader alleged the youth of Jammu and Kashmir are driven to frustration so that they can ruin their lives by taking drugs or picking up guns to get killed.
The Executive Magistrate barred Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding a youth convention considering the Covid-19 restrictions and a report received from the Senior Superintendent of Police.
Kashmir: National Conference vice president and former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s assertion came amidst speculations that there are rifts within the constituents of PAGD—an amalgam of six political parties seeking restoration of J&K’s special status.
The "Speak UP" newsletter seeks to reach out to the PDP cadre about the party's stand on the current situation and political issues of Jammu and Kashmir.
PAGD spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said: ‘We will also seek legal advice about approaching the Supreme Court... we will knock on every door’.
The former chief minister said her struggle through peaceful means would continue for restoration of the special status being enjoyed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir before August 2019.
The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said it is ‘puzzling’ that Centre had not secured permission from Pakistan to use its airspace.
The former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has send a legal notice to erstwhile state’s Governor Satya Pal Malik over his alleged “defamatory” remarks against her.
The former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the Centre is ‘outraged only in cases where hate politics can be lapped up to polarise people’.
The PDP said it is the administration's ‘failure’ for ‘not being able to protect the people’, for the ‘worsening situation’ and for ‘working against the people’.
The Press Council Of India(PCI) has constituted a three member team, following former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s letter about ‘harrowing state’ of journalism in Kashmir.
Mehbooba Mufti also posted on Twitter pictures of a security force vehicle blocking the main gate of her Gupkar residence here.
'You fight with a person when he is alive. But when he dies he becomes a body. That body deserves respect,' Mehbooba Mufti said.
PDP says only self-rule will secure lasting peace in J&K, while NC called the dismissal and arrest of former Prime Minister of J&K Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah the beginning of betrayals.
Two former MPs- Fayaz Ahmad Mir and Nazir Ahmad Laway- joined Peoples Conference today.
'There are forces who want that Kashmiri youth should pick up a gun so that they will get more opportunity to suppress Kashmiris. I want to tell these youths don’t pick up guns,' Mehbooba Mufti said
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter to express her outrage over the locking down of the graveyard as political parties observed the day at their offices.
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