Srinagar, February 03: National Highway will be restored shortly after fresh landslides yesterday forced authortiies to close down it for vehicular movement.
SSP National National Highway told that only Stranded traffic will be allowed shortly as road has been almost cleared as off now.
Pertinently Jammu- National Highway is the only link which connects Valley with the rest of the world.(GNS)
After calling for the destruction of Pakistan earlier post the attack on CRPF jawans in Pulwama on 14 February, actor Kangana Ranaut has made a new comment about the tense situation between Indian and Pakistan.
Speaking at a media conclave on Saturday, Kangana said that she felt like she wanted “to go to the border and snatch somebody’s gone and do the deed”.
Kangana who is known for her candid and controversial comments began by defending her statement for the destruction of Pakistan.
“Well, I think it was just a very instinctive sentiment that we all felt at that time when we were faced with that sort of shocking incident that took place, possibly the most brutal and the most inhuman in centuries and it will always be a deep scar and a deep wound in all of our conscience, so obviously I was deeply moved by the whole brutality of that action,” said Kangana.
The actor went on to say that it’s not necessary to double think your reaction in such times and it’s alright to let your instinct take over.
Kangana then went on to say that she felt she wanted “to go to the border and snatch somebody’s gun and do the deed, so yeah that was my very instinctive reaction.”
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Jammu, March 3 : The Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed on Sunday due to landslides, a traffic department official said.
“Landslides in Panthal area of the Ramban-Ramsoo sector has been cleared and the operation to clear another landslide at Mom Passi area is going on. The highway is likely to be restored later in the day,” the official said.
The 300 km-long strategic highway has suffered frequent closures this winter season resulting in shortages of essential commodities in the landlocked Kashmir Valley.
One of the three militants killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district last week had plans to carry out a suicide attack similar to the February 14 Pulwama terror strike, according to a purported video of the ultra in which he spoke about such a plot.
The three militants killed in the encounter in Turigam area of Kulgam district on February 24 belonged to the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and were identified as Raqib Ahmad, a resident of Shiganpora, and Waleed and Numan of Pakistan.
A purported video of Ahmad, shot before he was killed, went viral on social media on Saturday.
In the clip, he spoke about his plans to carry out a ‘fidayeen’ (suicide) attack on security forces.
“I will be in heaven by the time this video reaches you,” Ahmad said in the over six-minute video in which he glorified terror attacks involving suicide bombers.
The video is similar to the one that surfaced immediately after the Pulwama attack in which JeM suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar claimed responsibility for the terror strike.
A police official said they were ascertaining the veracity of the video.(PTI)
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SRINAGAR, Mar 2: The UN Security Council has designated Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, under its sanctions list, subjecting him to a travel ban, assets freeze and an arms embargo as it described him as being seen as the “most probable successor” of the group’s current leader Aiman al-Zawahiri.
The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIS and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee listed 29-year old Hamza bin Laden on Thursday, the day the US announced a reward of up to one million dollars for information about him.
Saudi Arabia also announced on Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden via a royal decree in November.
A Security Council press release said al-Zawahiri has announced that the Saudi Arabia-born Hamza is an official member of Al Qaida. Hamza has called for followers of Al-Qaida to commit terror attacks. Is seen as the most probable successor of al-Zawahiri, the powerful 15-member Council said.
An assets freeze under the Sanctions Committee requires that all States freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities.
The travel ban entails preventing the entry into or transit by all States through their territories by designated individuals.
Under the arms embargo, all States are required to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer from their territories or by their nationals outside their territories, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, spare parts, and technical advice, assistance, or training related to military activities, to designated individuals and entities.
Just hours before the UNSC Sanctions Committee designated Hamza, the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced a reward for up to USD 1 million for information leading to his identification or location in any country, saying he is emerging as a leader in the Al Qaida franchise.
“Since at least August 2015, he has released audio and video messages on the Internet calling on his followers to launch attacks against the United States and its Western allies, and he has threatened attacks against the United States in revenge for the May 2011 killing of his father by U.S. service members, the State Department said.
In January 2017, the State Department had listed Hamza as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, freezing all of his assets based in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons. The designation also prohibited US persons from engaging in transactions with him. (PTI)
Was seen as successor of Al Qaida leader al-Zawahiri
US announces USD 1 million reward for his information
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SRINAGAR, Mar 2: The UN Security Council has designated Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, under its sanctions list, subjecting him to a travel ban, assets freeze and an arms embargo as it described him as being seen as the “most probable successor” of the group’s current leader Aiman al-Zawahiri.
The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIS and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee listed 29-year old Hamza bin Laden on Thursday, the day the US announced a reward of up to one million dollars for information about him.
Saudi Arabia also announced on Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden via a royal decree in November.
A Security Council press release said al-Zawahiri has announced that the Saudi Arabia-born Hamza is an official member of Al Qaida. Hamza has called for followers of Al-Qaida to commit terror attacks. Is seen as the most probable successor of al-Zawahiri, the powerful 15-member Council said.
An assets freeze under the Sanctions Committee requires that all States freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities.
The travel ban entails preventing the entry into or transit by all States through their territories by designated individuals.
Under the arms embargo, all States are required to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer from their territories or by their nationals outside their territories, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, spare parts, and technical advice, assistance, or training related to military activities, to designated individuals and entities.
Just hours before the UNSC Sanctions Committee designated Hamza, the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced a reward for up to USD 1 million for information leading to his identification or location in any country, saying he is emerging as a leader in the Al Qaida franchise.
“Since at least August 2015, he has released audio and video messages on the Internet calling on his followers to launch attacks against the United States and its Western allies, and he has threatened attacks against the United States in revenge for the May 2011 killing of his father by U.S. service members, the State Department said.
In January 2017, the State Department had listed Hamza as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, freezing all of his assets based in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons. The designation also prohibited US persons from engaging in transactions with him. (PTI)
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SRINAGAR, Mar 2: Peoples Democratic Party President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday warned on banning the Jamaat-e-Islami will have “dangerous ramifications”, reported IANS.
“You cannot imprison an ideology or an idea. There are thousands of Kashmiris in villages and cities associated with the Jamaat. It is s socio-religious organization,” IANS quoted Mehbooba as having said.
“Children studying in Jamaat-run schools have been securing positions in exams. What will happen to these children after you close their schools?” She said that banning the Jamaat could have “dangerous ramifications. By doing this, the BJP is converting Jammu and Kashmir into an open prison.
“We had resisted these moves of the BJP when we were in power with them,” she claimed.
She said as the Chief Minister and the Home Minister of the state during the PDP-BJP coalition, she never got any credible intelligence reports about the links of Jamaat workers with the militants.
“An environment has been created in the country in which beating and harassing Kashmiris is celebrated. It is unfortunate and there seems to be nobody to control this,” IANS quoted Mehbooba as having said.
Mehbooba Mufti said that after IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was returned to India, it appeared talks would start between India and Pakistan but war mongering is still continuing in India, IANS reported.
Srinagar, Mar 2: United Jihad Council (UJC) secretary general and Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen chief Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman has termed the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu & Kashmir as interference in religious affairs of Muslims.
Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman in a statement issued to GNS said the ban will not cow down Kashmiri people to surrender before India.
“India has realized that the people of Kashmir are united like a solid rock against the occupation, that is why New Delhi is hell bent upon pushing the Muslims away from their religion,” he said.
“Our fight is not against the poor soldier of India but against the New Delhi’s anti-freedom policies,” TuM chief said, adding, “The Government of India is making its soldiers as cannon fodders.”
Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman in the statement hailed the contribution of Jamaat-e-Islami. (GNS)
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Poonch March 2 : 60 families comprising around 300 people have fled their homes for safety as Indian and Pakistani armies continued to pound the Line of Control here Saturday amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
The families on Friday afternoon left their homes in Ward 10 of Balnoie village of Mankote sector, where shelling between India and Pakistan armies Saturday left three members of a family wounded.
Siblings Azad Ahmad (20), Zahida Khatoon (15) and their mother Zarina wife of Mohammad Shabir were injured as some shells fired Pakistan Army landed in Ghani village, a police official told.
They were rushed to SDH Mendhar for treatment, where their condition was stated to be stable, according to Block Medical Officer Mendhar Dr Parvaiz Khan.
This correspondent found only an elderly person Ghulam Hussain in ward no. 10 of Balnoie village yesterday.
“Everyone else has fled,” Hussain told on Friday afternoon. He said that India and Pakistan must realize that innocent civilians on both sides were suffering immensely due to the continued hostility between the two countries.
“We are poor people and cannot afford the loss of houses. We are tired of living under the fear of getting killed or our houses getting destroyed in the shelling, ” he said, urging both India and Pakistan to resolve their issues peacefully.
Hussain also accused the administration of leaving the “residents at the mercy of God with no essential commodities including ration and Kerosene oil.”
According to sources, over 30 residential houses suffered damage due to the shelling in Balakote, Mendhar and Mankote sectors over the past few days.
On Friday evening, three members of a family including a brother, sister and their mother were killed and two others injured when a shell hit their house at Salotri in Krishna Ghati sector. (GNS)
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SRINAGAR, Mar 2: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani ‘helped’ the PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir to implement Goods and Services Tax (GST), reveals Professor Hameeda Nayeem, the wife of senior separatist leader Nayeem Ahmad Khan. She was talking to reporters here on Saturday.
Talking to media person on the sidelines of a seminar, Prof. Hameeda Nayeem alleged that PDP- BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir sought help from separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani so that the GST-otherwise a central law, could be implemented in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Geelani was made to issue a statement in which he openly undermined the importance of Article 370 and declared that its erosion would least matter for the people of the State. Through this way, Geelani helped PDP to implement GST in Kashmir. Geelani is a person who had never a political head,” she said.
Professor Hameeda, whose husband Nayeem Ahmad Khan is a member of Geelani’s faction of Hurriyat Conference has for the first time made such a revelation that has made the 89-year-old Hurriyat hawk responsible for paving way for the implementation of central law in Jammu and Kashmir.
The story goes back to July 3, 2017 when Syed Ali Geelani surprised one and all and issued a statement, calling to de-link the debate over implementing the Goods and Services Tax from the issue of ‘resistance movement’ in Jammu and Kashmir.
Geelani also asked traders and the civil society members- who were leading a campaign against the GST – to “concentrate on the core issue of Kashmir and avoid any such measures or steps that may alter the discourse or hinder its resolution”, suggesting that the GST should not take a centre stage of the Kashmir movement.
He had asked traders and the civil society to “sort out the problems relating to their business (es)… and find ways and means to explore solution (s) to these complex situations”, indicating he would not play a direct role in opposing the implementation of GST in Jammu and Kashmir.
Srinagar, March 2 : The standoff between government forces and a militant, who rose from the rubble of a house yesterday, continued at Babagund Langate area of Handwara in frontier Kupwara district on Saturday.
So far, four government force men including an officer of Inspector rank of CRPF 92 battalion were killed and eleven other personnel—four from paramilitary and others from Army— were injured. One militant has been claimed to have been killed but so far no body has been retrieved from the gunfight site.
Official sources told news agency that on early Saturday morning, elite Para commandos from 3 and 9 battalion joined the already strengthened posse of government forces comprising army’s 22 Rashtriya Rifles, 92 battalion CRPF and police’s Special Operation Group.
They said that there was fresh fire between the militant and the government forces and it continued intermittently for the day.
The government forces allegedly razed one more house to rubble by blowing it up with an Improvised Explosive Device. The three houses so far damaged belong to Manzoor Ahmad shah son of Ghulam Hassan, Fayaz Ahmad Peer son of Wali Mohammad and Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat. Two cowsheds and a tin shed were also damaged so far, the officials added.
Courtesy GNS