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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Bashaarat Masood
The Chief Minister urged the Centre to step in to stop the ‘boycott Kashmir’ campaign saying people of J&K are being punished despite them coming out …
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1 week ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
Day after holding a Cabinet meeting in Pahalgam, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah conducted a review meeting in Gulmarg, another prominent tourist destination in the state, on Wednesday to send a message that his government is ready to open “Jammu and Kashmir for tourism again”. The Chief Minister urged the Centre to step in to stop the ‘boycott Kashmir’ campaign saying people of J&K are being punished despite them coming out to condemn the Pahalgam terror attack.
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1 week ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
The government is also planning to set up a memorial for those killed in the terror attack. Story continues below this ad The visitors include representatives of 26 major tour operators and are led by Maharashtra-based Abhijeet Patil, who met CM Omar Abdullah in Pahalgam on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
As the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet met on Tuesday in Pahalgam, the tourist destination where terrorists killed 26 civilians last month, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sought to underline one message: Tourism should be a “conflict-neutral” activity, and his government will make every effort to “insulate” it from the developments in the region. He said the state is in talks with the Centre to take some “solid steps” to revive tourism in Jammu and Kashmir.
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1 week ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
To instil confidence in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack and encourage tourists to return to Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his cabinet will move out of the capital, Srinagar, to tourist resorts of Pahalgam and Gulmarg for two days. On Tuesday, the J&K cabinet and top civil and police officers will meet not in Srinagar’s civil secretariat, but at a resort in Pahalgam.
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1 week ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
A day after reports of a major disagreement in the National Conference (NC) between Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and party MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, the party appeared to get into damage control mode by claiming that the meeting was held in a “healthy and respectful” environment and that Mehdi did not walk out as claimed earlier.
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2 weeks ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
The National Conference’s resolution reaffirming its “commitment to special status” and demanding “immediate return of statehood” to Jammu and Kashmir has sparked a row, prompting the Opposition to wonder why it was not passed in the Assembly “where such matters belong”. The resolution was passed during a working committee meeting of the party Wednesday to discuss the Pahalgam attack and subsequent hostilities between India and Pakistan.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Bashaarat Masood
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3 weeks ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
“In a decisive action against subversive and criminal elements inimical to the security and public order of the nation, Srinagar Police has booked 23 terror associates of proscribed terror outfits involved in subversive activities and miscreants involved in public disturbance under the Public Safety Act (PSA),” the police said in a statement while naming each individual booked under the law. The police said they have been moved to jails outside the Kashmir Valley.
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3 weeks ago | 
indianexpress.com | Bashaarat Masood
The National Conference vice-president said they would help J&K use the Jhelum for navigation as well as improve generation in downstream power projects. Mufti called Abdullah’s remarks “dangerously provocative… amid ongoing tensions between India & Pakistan”. In a post, she said: “At a time when both countries have just stepped back from the brink of a full-fledged war – with Jammu and Kashmir bearing the brunt… – such statements are not only irresponsible but also dangerously provocative.
