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Kasuri to Mirwaiz: India, Pak on same wavelength

Friday 23 February '07

In his talks with Kashmiri separatist leaders today, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri said Islamabad and India were working towards increasing people-to-people contact between the divided parts of Kashmir.
Geelani on Kasuri’s list of invitees

Saturday 17 February '07

Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has invited Kashmiri separatists for a meeting during his visit to India next week.
New alignments greet Mirwaiz

Friday 2 February '07

It was clear that what the Valley was witnessing today was a redrawing of battlelines, and that not only were the Hurriyat’s two estranged factions hardening their stands but that also for the first time
Valley keeps peace after Iraq echoes on Moharram

Wednesday 31 January '07

The echo of Iraq was unmistakable as the Valley observed the tenth day of Moharram, or Ashura, today.
J&K reviews security for Hurriyat leaders

Tuesday 30 January '07

J&K Government has reviewed security to all Hurriyat leaders in view of recent militant threats to them following Mirwaiz Umer Farooq’s call for an end to the armed struggle in Kashmir.
End armed struggle, says Mirwaiz, it has achieved

Sunday 21 January '07

After meeting Musharraf, Mirwaiz says in Pakistan: Not prepared to sacrifice any more of our loved ones. Hardliner Geelani, Jehad Council slam him, say he is pandering to West, India, Pakistan
Faith Healing

Sunday 21 January '07

At a time when sectarian equations in the Muslim world are strained, more so after the hanging of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the Valley is putting to use an important lesson - building unity on the fundamentals of faith while differing in the details.
Geelani takes hartal to Mirwaiz stronghold

Thursday 18 January '07

The separatist divide over the peace process on Wednesday spilled on to the Valley streets, with the two Hurriyat factions holding protests against each other in the deserted lanes of downtown Srinagar.
On Delhi visit eve, Mirwaiz home comes under attack

Tuesday 16 January '07

Deepening the divide among separatists over the Kashmir peace process, militants today attacked the Srinagar home of Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
Hurriyat seeks date with PM

Tuesday 9 January '07

Sensing an opportunity to find its way to the high table in the enhanced diplomatic engagement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
Unusual hardline tilt to Mirwaiz’s Friday speech

Saturday 6 January '07

In a rare departure from his moderate image and for once forgetting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s “out-of-the-box” Kashmir solutions
Andrabi: J-K seeks Major extradition

Friday 29 December '06

In a major development in the 1996 murder of prominent High Court lawyer and human rights activist Jalil Andrabi...
After Europe, Mirwaiz says next stop Pak

Tuesday 26 December '06

On an European tour, Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said his back channels with the Central Government are open and that he will follow up his current tour with a visit to Pakistan in January.
This Christmas, fear rules Tantray’s village

Monday 25 December '06

On Christmas eve, the festive spirit is absent in the home of the Tantrays. Instead, there is an atmosphere of fear.
Held for Osama photo, Kashmiri youths freed

Saturday 16 December '06

These four young semi-literate Kashmiri men working in Mumbra, Mumbai met Osama bin Laden only through his picture published in an Urdu periodical.
Clash of Canons

Sunday 10 December '06

The recent attack on a procession of worshippers in Kashmir brought into open the faith divide and the Valley’s changing religious landscape which has come to be dominated by Deobandi Islam
Talks minus us won’t sort out Kashmir, says Mirwaiz

Thursday 7 December '06

Talks of fresh thinking for a solution to the Kashmir problem from across the border today elicited a guarded response from Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq...
Hurriyat has own J-K solution, out of India, Pak constitutions

Friday 1 December '06

Feeling overtaken by the mainstream National Conference (NC) and the PDP who have been advancing their own respective political formulae for the resolution of Kashmir
Pakistan brushes aside Geelani’s hard line

Thursday 16 November '06

Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s first meeting with a senior officer of the Pakistani establishment in two years didn’t go well for the Hurriyat hawk...
‘Prayer attack at Hizbul behest’

Sunday 12 November '06

Youth in army custody says he was forced to throw grenade for Rs 1,000; Hizb denies involvement
Sufi prayers attacked in Valley, four children among five killed

Saturday 11 November '06

The sprawling ground of the Primary Health Centre here has become an amphitheatre for mourning. An anguished crowd of people, forming a circle, watch helplessly as families wail and scream over the bodies of their dear ones.
‘Transformed’ Bitta talks peace, Pandits not amused

Saturday 28 October '06

Guns are passe for Bitta Karate. The once-dreaded JKLF commander, who is alleged to have killed 20 people during his short...
Valley cops lodge FIR against Army over death of 17-yr-old, Army too probing

Monday 23 October '06

When the body of 17-year-old Muhammad Maqbool Dar was brought home yesterday, mother Haneefa was inconsolable. But in her grief, there was guilt.
LeT moots council to probe civilian killings in Valley

Monday 16 October '06

In a deliberate change of strategy, militant groups in the Kashhmir valley are making an effort to carve out a more benign public image for themselves.
Governor rehab pat only for army

Monday 9 October '06

There were some embarrassing moments for the state government on the first anniversary of the Kashmir earthquake...
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