Drawing parallels between hanging of Afzal Guru and JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said that he preferred the normal ‘functioning’ in the 87-member legislative House which was adjourned before Afzal Guru’s resolution could be debated.

“We wanted that the house should function. We cooperated fully with the Speaker, parliamentary affairs minister, business advisory council and we appealed all sides to allow the House to function,” Chief Minister...

Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Wednesday threatened to launch a stir the state government doesn’t expel non-resident slum-dwellers from Jammu and Kashmir and publicly renounce their proposed settlement in the state by October 20.

Geelani, who chaired a meeting of the amalgam’s Majlis shoora or advisory council today, alleged that, pursuing Israeli tactics, India wanted to expel Kashmiris from their own land and alter the Muslims majority character of the...

While 'regretting' the silence of the opposition PDP in the Assembly during the clash between Congress and BJP MLAs, Speaker, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Mohammad Akbar Lone today said that the resolution seeking clemency to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has lapsed.

In an interaction with media persons, the Speaker said they (PDP) 'was so silent in the House that during the clash between Congress and BJP MLAs as if nothing was happening'.

They (PDP) should have backed the move of...

A resolution seeking clemency for 2001 Parliament attack covict Afzal Guru could not come up for discussion in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday as the House was adjourned for the day after a clash between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators.

As the present Assembly session ends Oct 4, the resolution tabled by independent legislator Engineer Rashid will now be taken up in the next session.

While the BJP members were protesting against the resolution seeking clemency...

Suspected militant shot at a policeman from a close range killing him on the spot this afternoon at Batamaloo, uptown part of Srinagar City, police sources told Kashmir Dispatch.

They said, Head Constable Ghulam Mohammad Belt no 262/S was fired upon by a gunman from a close range near Kaman post Batamaloo, a few meters away from the Legislative Assembly.

The deceased, sources said, was standing with a group of policemen, when the militant attacked.Mohammad was rushed to SMHS Hospital...

Reacting strongly to the ‘false and biased’ reportage of the Department of Information and Public Relations, MLA Langate Er Rasheed on Tuesday decided to move a privilege motion against Director of the department Farooq Ahmad Renzu.

In a press statement issued here, Er Rasheed said, “Despite Speaker of the Assembly Muhammad Akbar Lone clarifying in the House that MLA Langate has not made any derogatory remarks in his speech on the first day of the session, the statement issued by...

Away from the commotion at the Legislative Assembly which is in discussion over a resolution seeking clemency to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, his wife Tabasum Guru Wednesday said that she had left her husband's fate in the hands of God.

Tabasum, who works as a receptionist at Sopore Nursing Home in North Kashmir, said: "I have left my husband's fate in the hands of Allah."

Tabasum, who has filed a mercy petition with the President, said, "She has no option but to accept the true...

Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday over a resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

Despite repeated warnings by Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone the opposition members did not leave the well of the House. Lone adjourned the House for 30 minutes.

As soon as the House convened, Opposition MLAs, primarily from the Jammu region, stormed into the Well of the House demanding that the resolution should not be tabled and taken up for...