Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

Around the year 1998, one of South Kashmir’s most popular militants, Arif Khan of Zangalpora, got killed in an encounter with security forces. Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, as …

Even as reports of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT)  founder Hafiz Saeed’s son, Kamaluddin Saeed, in Karachi are yet to be confirmed independently and a top-ranking LeT ideologue, Mufti Qaisar Farooq has …

Cleric-politician and chairman of the separatist amalgam Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s release from over four-year-long ‘house arrest’ on Friday, 22 September, is an unexpected decision by the BJP Government at the …

Over three years after the dramatic arrest of the Deputy Superintendent Davinder Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested Deputy Superintendent of Police Sheikh Adil Mushtaq in a terror-linked …

The loss of at least four security forces and Police personnel, including three officers, during a joint search operation in the Kokernag forest area of Kashmir’s Anantnag district last week, …

The killing of three officers of the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir, including a Colonel and a Major, in an ambush in the Kokernag forest cover in Kashmir’s …

Three officers of the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police, including a Colonel, laid the sacrifice of their life when they were fatally ambushed and attacked in the …

Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh, Brig (retd) BD Mishra, on Monday asserted that not an inch of the Indian land was under Chinese occupation in Ladakh or …

Probably for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, a district court has awarded rigorous imprisonment of 20 years each to two prominent characters of the valley’s narco-terror mafia spread …

Srinagar:  Jammu and Kashmir Bank Chief Manager Sajad Bazaz’s dismissal on Friday has led to startling disclosures about Pakistan’s control on Kashmir’s media and the State-owned premier financial institution for …

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd has terminated the services of a Chief Manager and a regular business columnist of the English language daily Greater Kashmir. A circular issued from …

Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Friday that more than 300 Hindi and other language films have been shot in Kashmir during the last two years with the return …

Srinagar’s business hub of Lal Chowk admittedly does not represent the entire Kashmir valley’s situation and political aspirations. But its iconic landscape and skyline does arguably contain Kashmir’s most representative …

Srinagar:  On Sunday and Monday, thousands of Kashmiris participated in the “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign initiated by LG Manoj Sinha with a grand show in Srinagar. Reports of such rallies …

Srinagar: In a first in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered premature retirement from service of senior IPS officer Basant Kumar …

Srinagar:  Over 30 years after the first spell of terrorist bloodshed in Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have decided to reopen investigations into at least 9 high- profile assassinations …

(In the first part of the article, our Srinagar correspondent Ahmed Ali Fayyaz had highlighted how anti-national forces were allowed to grow under Congress and the PDP governments as part …

Srinagar: In the surveys conducted by government agencies to assess the situation in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 8 years, three particular dates are important. The 5th of August, …

Srinagar: Scripting history in the violence-hit Kashmir valley, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday joined a massive Zuljanah procession on the occasion of Ashura, the 10th of Muharram, in Srinagar’s …

Thousands of the Shia Muslim mourners took out a massive procession in Srinagar on the 8th of Muharram to remember the sacrifice of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Hazrat Imam Hussain in …

Srinagar: With a new Bill to be moved in Parliament for amending the law, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir is poised to get powers to nominate three persons, …