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No boycott, and mind your own business: Hurriyat to militants

Saturday 18 April '09

A day after the Hurriyat doves decided not to call for boycott of the ongoing polls, the alliance aggressively defended its decision against the criticisms.
Moving Dal Lake? Thank God it is only a joke!

Monday 23 March '09

Can lakes be moved to rescue them from the double onslaught of encroachment and the pollution that threatens to devour them?
61% vote in Valley, one wish: India, Pak must not go to war

Monday 1 December '08

With the Mumbai terror attacks returning the chill in Indo-Pak ties, people in Kashmir Valley once again ignored boycott calls by separatists to vote in Phase 3 of the state elections.
Lone hits back as Geelani accuses separatists of double standards

Thursday 27 November '08

Setting off rumblings within the separatist camp, which is already grappling with the high turnout in the first two phases of the Assembly elections.
With 74% turnout, no place for separatists in Gurez

Tuesday 18 November '08

Far from the raucous political environment of the Valley, behind the mighty Himalayas, election day in Gurez passed with a methodical calm.
Which way will Ganderbal swing?

Monday 3 November '08

If there was ever a swing constituency in Kashmir, it is this small township on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Hope on Board

Tuesday 21 October '08

The passengers gather expectantly along the track. Railway policemen take positions, shouting safety precautions before a whistle blows in from a distance.
Make borders irrelevant, PM tells Valley, regrets deaths and curfew

Saturday 11 October '08

Fresh from his biggest policy triumph, the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not announce any new policy initiative on Kashmir.
Rift wide open? New faces at Hurriyat meet surprise many

Friday 22 August '08

The Hurriyat Conference met here on Wednesday to chalk out its protest program for Friday.
Mehbooba cashes in on Pak windfall

Wednesday 9 April '08

Basking in the glory of her visit to Islamabad, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday flaunted her new-found connections across the border.
Trade across LoC in 90 days: Ramesh

Tuesday 18 March '08

Union Minister of State for Industries and Commerce Jairam Ramesh on Monday said trade with Pakistan across the Line of Control...
Mehbooba’s Pak visit crucial for PDP

Saturday 15 March '08

Come March-end, People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti will visit Pakistan to attend Pugwash...
Zardari’s statement spells new crisis for separatists

Tuesday 11 March '08

Following the statement of Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, separatists in Kashmir seem to be in a mood of serious introspection.
First colony for Pandits in Valley

Tuesday 4 March '08

Dulari Devi gingerly moves among her belongings littered outside her allotted C-1 flat on the first floor...
As polls beckon, corruption charges haunt Azad Govt

Wednesday 13 February '08

The past one month has been a tough one for Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Pakistan: the reality show

Monday 11 February '08

Militancy may have declined but the Pakistani infiltration machinery is working overtime...
Hawk Geelani, dove Shabir address Lashkar front

Saturday 9 February '08

Kashmir Solidarity Day observed across Pakistan on February 5 may have evoked the usual sound and fury but what made it different...
Hizbul says won’t use gun to enforce election boycott

Wednesday 30 January '08

In a significant change in his strategy, Hizbul Mujahideen supremo Syed Salahuddin has said militants will not use gun...
Moharram: Valley awash with banners of Shia leaders, Sunnis uneasy

Thursday 17 January '08

Banners in Srinagar’s Shia-dominated areas have moved this Moharram beyond displaying...
Shabir Shah back in Hurriyat, Mirwaiz asks others to follow

Tuesday 15 January '08

In a bid to consolidate their waning political fortunes in the wake of the declining militancy in the state...
Separatist leaders join Mirwaiz to revive lost political standing

Saturday 12 January '08

With their political survival under strain and Assembly elections round the corner...
Woman found dead after blowing lid off J&K sex racket, body exhumed

Thursday 10 January '08

At a time when Srinagar is still troubled by the sex scandal that came to light in 2006, the J&K police today exhumed the body of a young woman...
Peace, polls in the air, parties edge out separatists

Thursday 10 January '08

Jammu and Kashmir enters an election year with the good news that militant violence in the state is at its lowest ever.
Mirwaiz to Bilawal: build a modern state, free of terror

Tuesday 1 January '08

When 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took over as the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party...
Oscar nominee to film Dal’s boatmen

Friday 21 December '07

Kashmir is the next destination for Iranian film-maker Majid Majidi.
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