All-party meet on Kashmir today, PDP to abstain

Srinagar: A cross-party gathering called by Jammu and Kashmir leader priest Omar Abdullah will be detained on Monday to talk about law plus arrange state of affairs in the condition.

Kashmir Valley under curfew, restrictions

Most parts of the Kashmir Valley were under curfew or strict restrictions on Monday to scuttle a separatist march to Anantnag town to protest the recent killing of three teenagers.

India not to discuss substantive issues with Pak, for now

New Delhi India is not not going to discuss substantive issues like Kashmir with Pakistan in the proposed rounds of dialogue but is only attempting to create the "right atmosphere" for removing the trust deficit for a broad dialogue later.

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PM begins two-day visit to Kashmir

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday indoors at a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, where he is to find a conversation ceremony and announce a revival package for the saffron industry.

Yasin Malik observes hunger strike in protest against fake encounter in Kashmir

Chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik noted a daylong hunger strike at Nadihal village in the Kashmir Valley Thursday as a mark of protest against the fake encounters in which the Indian army is supposed to have killed three innocent civilians.

Security forces seize solar missiles in Kashmir

Security forces have detained solar missiles in the Kashmir Valley.

A team of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police discovered these solar missiles, located for an offensive action in Gujjarpati woodland on Kupwara district.
Apparently brought suspected militants these rockets from a hiding place.

"During surgery, we have again two armaments of the latest technology that works on solar technology," said Sajad Arshid, Station House Officer, Sogam police station.

"In Gujjarpati forest area, had militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba fixed two solar rockets of a new type of two launch attacks on military installations. We first defused rockets with the help of bomb disposal squad and after we had rockets. We have registered a case, "Muhammad Yousuf, head of police Kupwara district.

Experts consider that this Projectile could have been used two carry a major radical attack in the area.

Separatist shutdown hits Kashmir to protest Sonia visit

Life across the Kashmir Valley was under the pressure Saturday following a shutdown called by nationalist leader Syed Ali Geelani hard on a day Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited the state. The establishment has introduced limits in the old city of Srinagar.

Jammu and Kashmir police to register murder case against army major

Jammu and Kashmir police to list a murder case against a larger army and some civilians for allegedly luring three young people to the border and staging a fake meet Machil sector north Kashmir, officials said. The provincial administration has also specially made a detailed probe into the event.

Sonia Gandhi to visit Jammu-Kashmir May 29

Congress President Sonia Gandhi determination appointment Jammu and Kashmir twenty May 9, a party lecturer here Sunday.

She will visit the capital of Jammu and Srinagar, the presenter said.

Sonia will devote a tribal educational center in Jammu and address of a meaning organized by the Gujjar the public. Her family has been closely linked to the Gujjar group of people.

Indo-Pak troops clash in Kashmir ahead of Foreign Ministers talk

A day before the Indian and Pakistani overseas ministers were likely to talk Line of Control in Kashmir flared up again with military workers stationed along the dividing line exchanging serious fire.

Firing took place in Mendhar division of Poonch district, just days after the two neighbors made a beginning to resuming his face conversation procedure.

Dates: Krishna had earlier announced in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that he would talk with Qureshi to decide the dates and place of meeting of the ministerial level. He's making phone calls in association with Qureshi would meet with him until May-end and offers to come to Delhi, if Krishna could not make it to Islamabad.