Bashaarat Masood

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday said the Jammu and Kashmir police had prevented a meeting of religious leaders at his residence in Srinagar. The meeting had been called by the Muttahida Majlis Ulema (MMU) to discuss the Waqf Act. Calling it unjust to “deny religious representatives the right to peacefully deliberate”, Mirwaiz said a resolution on the Waqf Act will be drafted and read out in all mosques and religious congregations on Friday.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood

Jammu and Kashmir’s key political rivals – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the National Conference (NC) – have decided to knock on the Supreme Court’s doors over the Waqf Act. Under fire from the opposition for rolling out a “red carpet welcome” to Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, who moved the Waqf Amendment Bill in parliament, the NC said on Wednesday it would approach the top court. “We believe that this amendment is against Muslims.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood

Fighting fire on multiple fronts over the charge that it is bending over backwards to keep the Centre happy, the National Conference government has now burnt its hands with an affidavit in the High Court justifying enhanced reservations in Jammu and Kashmir. The increase in reservations to 70% in government jobs and seats in educational and professional institutions had been part of the changes ushered in J&K post the abrogation of Article 370.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood

Amid his current three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday announced that three more organisations have dissociated themselves from the separatist amalgam Hurriyat Conference. “Three more organizations, namely Jammu Kashmir Islamic Political Party, Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Democratic League, and Kashmir Freedom Front, disassociate themselves from the Hurriyat.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood

Abdul Rahim Rather is a veteran of many a political battle in Kashmir. But the one he is at the heart of now, as the Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, is unprecedented, with both the Treasury and Opposition Benches seemingly aligned against him.