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TopicKashmiri separatist

Topic: Kashmiri separatist

‘BJP proxies’, or Independents? Past, present & future tense for ex-militants in J&K poll fray

Twenty-eight former militants, separatists & Jamaat-backed leaders are participating in the J&K elections. How they impact Kashmir politics will be clearer after 8 October results.

Who is Zahoor Watali, businessman who ‘funded terror in J&K’ through scores of firms & ‘hawala’

Watali was arrested in August 2017 in a terror funding case. According to NIA, which attached 17 properties belonging to him Monday, he was a conduit who helped bring Pakistani money to Hurriyat.

Separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah dies in AIIMS of cancer, ‘as a prisoner,’ says daughter

The son-in-law of late Hurriyat chief Syed Gilani was charged for funding terror, and ‘waging war against India’.

Kashmir separatist Yasin Malik convicted in 2017 terror-funding case days after pleading guilty

Yasin Malik had last Tuesday told court he was not contesting the charges against him and was 'ready to face whatever is next'.

‘Ready to face whatever’s next’: What Yasin Malik said about guilty plea in terror-funding case

‘Friend of the court’, advocate Akhand Pratap Singh, says he tried to make Malik understand consequences of pleading guilty, but he made up his mind not to face trial.

Two sons of late Kashmiri separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai detained

The sons were detained from their residence in Srinagar in connection with a police case registered on 6 May after pro-freedom slogans were raised at the separatist leader's funeral.

On Camera

Officers Qureshi, Singh & Deosthalee on KBC hot seat—a Bollywood-like spectacle

At one point in the episode, Commander Deosthalee, who is the first Indian woman to command a naval warship, compared the three of them to a trishul—such was their synergy.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?