Several persons injured due to pellets, stone pelting; two schools among several govt buildings set ablaze

Umer Rashid / Qayoom Khan

Srinagar, May 5 : Massive clashes rocked Shopian and Pulwama districts on Sunday, a day ahead of the polling in the twin south Kashmir districts. Several persons including polling staff were wounded amid while many government buildings were set ablaze. 

Official sources said that a youth Sohail Ahmad Dar suffered pellet injuries when police and government forces resorted to use of force to disperse protesters at Palpora area of Shopian. The injured has been hospitalized and his condition is stated to be stable, they said.

Some youth also pelted stones upon polling parties at Zawoora Shopian and they were dispersed by using few teargas shells.

Reports of stone pelting upon polling staff vehicles were also received from Pinjoora, Meemander and Narwaw Shopian.

Polling staff was also attacked with stones by youth at Narpora Shopian when they were on way from Shopian to Keller. The government forces fired tear smoke shells. In the dingdong clashes, some officials and youth received injuries during the stone pelting.

Stone pelting upon polling staff was also reported near Goal Masjid Tral and reportedly window panes of an SRTC Bus were damaged.

Clashes also erupted near Mir Mohallah Shadab Kareewa Shopian and some persons pelted stones as a result of which window panes of SRTC bus got damaged. Government forces fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters.

The government forces also fired teargas shells fired pellets and reported to aerial firing after the polling staff came under heavy stone pelting at Devpora and Mashwar Shopian, they said.

A presiding officer of a polling station of Pastoona Tral namely Nazir Ahmad and a trooper of SSB were injured in stone pelting at Lurgam area of Tral. Both the injured were hospitalized.

At 07:30 hours, report said, unknown persons set ablaze middle school at Tumpora Keller Shopian. The fire and emergency sleuths swiftly acted and brought the fire under control.

Sources said that stones were pelted upon polling staff at Koil Pulwama following which the government forces deployed there fired teargas shells while army’s 55RR patrolling party fired a few aerial gunshots. There were no reports about injury to anyone in the clashes, reports told GNS.

Meanwhile, some unknown persons set ablaze a Panchayat Ghar at Chandpora Rajpora and also set on fire a the building of Revenue department (Pathwar Khana) at Rajpora. Reports also said that some unknown persons set on fire a building of Government High School at village Qasbayar in Rajpora Pulwama.

An official while confirming it said that fire tenders were immediately called in and brought the fire under control at these places.  Unknown persons also set on fire a Panchayat Gar at Drubgam Pulwama, they said.

Clashes were also received from Saraf Kadal as youth pelted stones at 23rd Battalion CRPF. The government forces fired few teargas shells and fired pellets due to which at least four persons got injured. (GNS)

 Srinagar, May 5 : More than a fortnight after he went missing, police has found the body of a 28-year-old man from a Nallah in Reshinagri area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday.

The body bearing torture marks was recovered by the police on the information received by it, an official said.

A police officer while confirming it identified the deceased as Rayees Ahmad Mir (28) son of Ghulam Mohammad of Vehil village in Shopian. He said that Rayees was missing since last 18 days.

“Prima facie it seems the man has been murdered and we are working on some leads and the case will be cracked soon. Those behind this murder will be dealt as per law,” the officer said.

He said that the body of the deceased was handed over to legal heirs for last rites after conducting all legal medico formalities.

“Once the postmortem will come and further details regarding the incident would be shared accordingly,” the officer said.

Meanwhile, hospital and family sources said that the body of the deceased wore torture marks on body parts which is clear indication that the man has been murdered. (GNS)

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Srinagar, May 5 : A day after BJP leader was shot dead, Government forces on Sunday recovered his personal car from Dooru area of the south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. 

A police officer told GNS that soon after the fatal attack was carried out by the militants on the BJP leader Gul Mohammad Mir (60), a joint team of government forces including SOG, police, army and CRPF launched searches in several parts of Nowgam, Verinag, Dooru and adjoining areas.

“The personal car of the slain BJP leader (Wagon R bearing registration number JK03D-0748) was taken away by the militants and the vehicle was left at Gujerbasti area of Watnad in Dooru,” the officer said.

The vehicle was recovered by the police on Sunday morning, he said.

A case under relevant sections of law have been registered in police station concerned and further investigations taken up, the officer added.

Mir, BJP Vice President for Anantnag district, was shot dead by militants yesterday at Nowgam, Verinag. (GNS)

Sopore : One Click Computers inaugurates its office in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on Sunday.

One click computers is providing its service to clients Air Tickets,online Forms,Flex Boards,Flex Wallpapers,Pan Cards,Passport Registration,Hoardings,Lighting Boards etc.

The office of the one click computers is located at M-E-T road
Chankhan Sopore.

Srinagar, May 05 : A special meeting of Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema in connection with the commencement of Holy month of Ramadhan was held at the historic Mirwaiz Manzil Rajouri Kadal chaired by MMU patron Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq.

The meeting was attended by a cross spectrum of Kashmir’s Ulema from all maslaks, heads of shrines, Imams and Khateebs which included Moulana Muhammad Rehmatullah Mir Alqasmi, Mufti Muhammad Yaqoob Baba, Moulana Masroor Abbass Ansari, Moulana Ghulam Rasool Hami, Moulana Khursheed Ahmed Kanoongo,Aga Syed Al Hassan, Al safavi, Mufti Nazir Ahmed Qasimi, Moulana Sheikh Ghulam Rasool Noori, Moulana Muhammad Shafi Maki, Moulana Taha Andrabi, Moulana Tariq Ahmed Dar, Moulanad Fayaz Ahmed Shah, Moulana Javaid Ahmed Qasimi, Moulana Muhammad IbrahimKhan, Moulanad Nasrullah Shah, Moulana Qazi Muhammad Yasin,Mufti Muhamamd Merajudin , Mufti Styed Muhamamd Shabir Kami, Mufti Ziyaul Haq Nazimi, Syed Abdul Lateef Bukhari, Professor Muhamamd Tayib Kamili, Moulana Ali Akbar, Moulana Muhstaq Ahmed Naqshbandi, Abdur Rasheed Amini, Moulana Mufti Nizamul Haq Nadvi, Moulanad Aijaz Ahmed Lone, Moulanad Nisar Ahmed Raja, Mufti Aijaz Ahmed Masoodi, Moulavi abdul Baseer, Moulanad Muhamd Anzar Qasimi, Moulana Syed Anzar Qasimi, Mouland Ghulam Rasool Samoon, Mouala Qari Muhammad Aslam, Mouland Mudasir Nazir, Mouland Showkat Ahmed RAshidi, Mouland Manzoor Ahmed, Moulana Bashir Raza, Mouland Ghulam Muhamamd Mouland Ishtiyaq Ahmed and Mouland Hilal Ahmed. The meeting was moderated by Moulana Syedur Rehman Shams.

At the meeting Ulemas emphasized that the fasting month of Ramadhan was full of blessings from the Almighty Allah and provided a great opportunity to people to seek forgiveness for sins and to get closer to the Almighty Allah and transform our lives forever.

Ulema said that Ramadhan provided a great opportunity to the every society including ours to shape it up as per Islamic tenets and values and to introspect upon the growing social evils that have permeated our society especially growing use of liquor and drugs and the crucial issue of abuse and crimes against women.

In this connection speaking on the occasion, MMU patron Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that this ramazan the special focus of khateebs and imams should also be on talking about such grave issue related to our women and educating and informing people about it in the light of Quran and Sunnah. He said that the shameful incident that took place at Bandpipora where a minor girl was raped by her own father that forced the girl to commit suicide was extremely shocking and reflect where we have got.

Quoting figures Mirwaiz said that 1700 complaints of domestic violence have taken place in the last year alone, while as divorce rate has shown a steep surge besides growing use of drugs and liquor abuse among our young.

He said that it was extremely denouncable that 2017- 2018, 3360 cases of sexual violence and rape have been registered while as dozens of cases of abandoning new born girl child in parks, dustbins and roads too have come to fore. He said that more than 30,000 girls who have attained the age of marriage are not able to get married because of the shameful fact that they can’t pay dowry and fulfill the demands which is totally against the basic teaching of Islam and our values.

Mirwaiz said that giving due rights in property to women was another issue which is not being followed as per Islamic tenants and it’s the responsibility of the Ulema to clearly spell out the inheritance and property rights of women as guaranteed by our religion

The participants of the meeting also laid special focus on restricting the use of loudspeakers during azan and Friday sermons stating that misuse of loudspeakers is causing a lot of inconvenience to all