Srinagar, April 26 : A policeman was injured critically after militants attacked a police party near Police Post Chanapora in Srinagar district of central Kashmir on Friday evening.

Official sources told GNS that the militants opened fire upon the police party. In the incident, a policeman suffered critical injuries and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

SDPO Sadder Shabir Khan also confirmed the attack and injuries to one cop.

Sources said that the militants after carrying out the attack managed to escape from the area.

Soon after the attack, government forces launched a hunt to nab the assailants. (GNS)

Srinagar: The government has decided to install Close Circuit Cameras (CCTVs) in schools across Kashmir.

A government document reveals that directorate of school education has been directed for installation of CCTV cameras in government schools located in Srinagar city, and towns of different districts.

“The director shall submit a proposal with regard to the installation of CCTV cameras in schools and requested of funding for maintenance of toilet blocks in schools for taking up the matter with the administrative department for accord of approval allotment of fund,” the document reveals.

An official at divisional commissioner Kashmir office said that security agencies have asked the government to install CCTVs in educational institutions of Kashmir valley.

“In the first phase, the security agencies have asked the government to install CCTVs in educational institutions where pro-freedom protests have become a routine,” the official said.
He said they would be used to ensure effective policing and surveillance in educational institutions.

The official said that CCTV cameras are also been installed after some parents had raised concerns about security of their wards, be it physical, mental or emotional security, including child abuse. “The schools authorities have also been told to set up internal vigilance committees to discuss deficiencies in security-related matters and recommend corrective measures,” the official said.

The government has also directed the district development commissioners and college authorities for categorization of the educational institutions in the valley. “The educational institutions will be declared either as sensitive, hypersensitive or non-sensitive.”
A police verification certificate with antecedents and address verification while appointing teachers, physical instructors, lab technicians, drivers, janitors and other support staff, including security personnel, has also become compulsory, the official added.

The student protests have become a cause of concern for the government. For the last few years, the students in various schools frequently held the protest against the killings in Kashmir, which compelled the government to close educational institutions for days to prevent the protests. (KNS)

Srinagar: Justice Sanjay Gupta of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik to transfer the trial of a 30-year-old case against the separatist leader from Jammu to Srinagar.

The High Court had earlier ordered the shifting of the trial involving the killing of an air force official in Srinagar to Jammu.

Yasin Malik is an accused in the case against whom the trial is currently being held in Jammu. (IANS)

Srinagar, April 26, 2019: In response to the statement of Farooq Abdullah in which he congratulated Yasin Malik for his sacrifices, Peoples’ Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone said that he is not surprised by Farooq Sahib’s utterly disdainful hypocrisy but pained at the audaciousness of his utterances.

Sajad said that Farooq Abdullah is nothing but a shameless elite exhorting the proletariat to sacrifice their lives while his family enjoys monarchical concessions.

“Do you really have the nerve to be talking about Yasin Malik? Can you jog your memory a bit and recall that did you not as Chief Minister in 1987 chase a young rebellious Yasin Malik from being a rebel within the political system to picking up arms? Was it not you as Chief Minister who imprisoned him before and after 1987 elections? Was it not you as Chief Minister who ordered his third-degree torture and tortured him so badly that his heart ailment worsened? Was it not you as Chief Minister who put a bounty of a few lakhs on his head? Have you forgotten all that? And 32 years later you are all praise for Yasin Malik and congratulating him for going on a hunger strike and his readiness to sacrifice his life. If you are so much in love with what Yasin Malik is doing, why don’t you suggest the same to your son Omar Abdullah? Why doesn’t he go on a hunger strike and render a sacrifice as you suggest for Yasin Malik? Or are sacrifices only meant for other people’s sons?”, he asked.

Sajad said that Farooq Abdullah is singularly responsible for forcing gun on to the peace loving Kashmiri people.

“Let me remind you that Yasin Malik was a part of the 1987 elections as a young member of the MUF. He was imprisoned after the rigging of 1987 elections and badly tortured. Had people like him been allowed to flourish, he may have been today where your son Omar Abdullah is. While he spent decades in jails, you and your son have prospered. He was no doubt rebellious even as a young college going student but had not lost faith in the ballot. It was your government which rigged the elections so blatantly that Yasin and scores of others lost faith in the ballot and embraced the gun. That was the start and till date approximately one lakh Kashmiris have lost their lives, and you and your ilk continue to flourish. What a shame. Delhi should also take note that as long as they go on treating the symptoms the disease will persist and never go away”, he asserted.

Sajad said that rather than punishing the victim repeatedly, Delhi should instead go after the ‘white-collar killers’ like Farooq Abdullah if they really want a change.

“I dare Delhi that If you really want a change in Kashmir, if you really have what it takes to bring about a change, go after these white-collar killers like Farooq Abdullah. It is he who is singularly responsible for forcing gun on to the peace loving Kashmiri people. The day Delhi starts to punish the traditional elite for their sins there will be a visible change in Kashmir”, he added.

Sajad said that Farooq Abdullah rather than wailing and chest beating should instead think about atonement for his sins.

“The victims of 1987 are being victimized yet again and the only addition is that the perpetrator of the victimization of 1987, Dr Farooq has slipped in and donned the role of a chest beater, ‘Rudali’. May we humbly suggest he seriously thinks about atonement. It is getting rather awkward that he slips in at any given chance and starts wailing and beating his chest incidentally for the sins that he has himself scripted in the past”, he concluded.