SRINAGAR: A Delhi court, on September 10, granted temporary bail to Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, widely recognized as Engineer Rashid, until October 2. This move allows him to actively campaign for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. Since 2019, Rashid has been held in Tihar Jail, Delhi, for a case linked to […]
SRINAGAR: “Every day we see FIRs being registered against our youth, but I will take up their cause. I’ll get a vakalatnama from you all and lodge a massive FIR, this time against the routine FIRs that target our youngsters, and I will do it in the grand halls of the J&K Assembly.” These powerful […]
In a country where democracy has been reduced to the level of a vote bank, it is no surprise if the national or regional elections have become an anathema to the Kashmiri Pandit community. In the first place, they are numerically almost immaterial in a State where, after suffering unceasing persecution for more than six […]
SRINAGAR: Hailing from Naira, a village in Pulwama, Waheed ur Rehman Parra, a trusted associate of Mehbooba Mufti, began his education in local institutions before earning his Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Islamic University of Science and Technology, located near Srinagar. As the second of three children, he comes from a well-established, […]
SRINAGAR: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has disqualified the candidacy of Sarjan Ahmad Wagay, a controversial cleric, from contesting in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district. The disqualification followed his failure to fulfil the constitutional oath requirements, as mandated under Section 16 of the J&K Reorganization Act 2019. According to official sources, Wagay’s […]
SRINAGAR: On Tuesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Ram Madhav and G Kishan Reddy as the election overseers for the forthcoming polls in Jammu and Kashmir. Madhav, who served as the national general secretary of the BJP from 2014 to 2020, was tasked with managing the political matters of Jammu and Kashmir. He also […]