Srinagar, Mar 16 : CPI (M) leader Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami Saturday said restrictions on movement of private vehicles during the movement of security forces convoys on highway is giving tough time to the commuters and causing heavy traffic jams.

“The commuters who travel towards their respective workplaces have to wait for a long duration till the convoy passes the area,” Tarigami said in a statement.

He said patients, who have to reach to the hospitals for treatment, are the worst suffers while students, office goers and businessmen too have to bear the brunt of traffic restrictions. “The security concerns are to be taken into consideration, but at the same time it should not be problematic for common people. Ambulances and vehicles carrying patients must be given free passage even during the movement of convoys. A patient can’t wait for half-an-hour as in some cases it can prove disastrous,” he said.

Similarly, the convoy movement timings must be devised so as there is no inconvenience to general public, he said, adding that there is a need to fine-tune and polishing the standard operating procedure (SOP) for the movement of security forces convoys so as there is no clash with the movement of civilian traffic.

“The timing of the security forces’ convoy could be fixed such that it is different than the timing when highways and other roads witness peak civilian traffic movement,” he said, adding that “a letter in this regard has already been submitted to the Governor on 12-03-2019.”

Srinagar, Mar 16 : The students of Islami college of Science and Commerce here on staged a protest against summoning of Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq by National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The college students assembled outside the main of their institute and chanted slogans while carrying banners and placards in their hands.

The students were demanded revocation of ban of religious organization and said the arrest of religious preachers be stopped forthwith.

They told reporters on the sidelines of the protest that today’s protest was organized to covey the world that Muslims are united. “Islam is a one voice and arrest of religious clerics like Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri and ban on Jamaat-e-Islami here is unacceptable to people of Kashmir,” they said.
The students further said NIA’s summon to Mirwaiz is direct interference in religious affairs and are aimed to impose ban on Islam.

“The moves like lock down of Masjids, arrest of religious clerics, ban on religious organization are unacceptable and must be stopped immediately,” they added.

The students after staging protesting dispersed off peacefully. 

Srinagar, Mar 16 : The record-maker IAS topper, Shah Faesal who recently resigned from country’s elite services and joined politics has finally come up with his own party, named ‘Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Movement’.

Shah will formally launch his new party tomorrow (Sunday, March 17, 2019) at Football Ground, Gindun Park, near Presentation Convent School, Rajbagh here.

The former IAS officer resigned from country’s elite services as mark a protest against unabated killings in Kashmir, he had said in a press conference here.

Shah met a number of delegations especially youth here since he joined politics and listened to their feedback over joining politics.

The former bureaucrat would likely contest the upcoming parliamentary elections from Baramulla seat. Shah had said in his first press briefing here had said that he will take up the demands of Kashmiris. 

Srinagar March 16: Police on Saturday said that no militant body has been recovered even as search operation was going on near the encounter site at Kujar area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district.

A police offcial said that the search operation is going on at Kujar where the militants and goverment forces exchange brief gunfire.

The officer further said that after search of three hours no militant body has been recovered yet.(GNS)