In Tihar jail since 2019, Engineer Rashid has struck a chord with those who boycotted earlier elections as well as those disillusioned with mainstream parties.
New Delhi, May 2: The 2010 IAS topper, Dr Shah Faesal, will be the first civil service officer from Jammu and Kashmir to join the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) as the orders of his appointment are expected any time during the .
With chief ideologue Ashraf Sehrai s death, Hurriyat s pro-Pakistan faction in Kashmir turns headless
Sat, May 8 2021 12:27 IST |
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With chief ideologue Ashraf Sehrai s death, Hurriyat s pro-Pakistan faction in Kashmir turns headless.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 8: Hurriyat Conferences pro-Pakistan faction has become virtually headless with the death of the 77-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) ideologue Mohammad Ashraf Khan aka Ashraf Sehrai at Jammus Government Medical College Hospital on Wednesday, 5 May 2021.
Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Sehrai were bosom friends who worked with Jamaat-e-Islami continuously from 1959 to 2003. Both contested elections on JeI s ticket but Geelani alone became a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, three times-in 1972, 1977 and 1987.
Yawar Hussain
explains the spectacle in wake of historic realties
A cartoon by Kashmir’s legendary cartoonist BAB saying the PADG would fight for 370, then will fight elections and will eventually fight within.
With Kashmir’s traditional rivals in politics joining hands post 5/8 to form Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the fault lines separating their turfs refuse to dissipate despite the leadership bonhomie. Throughout the post-partition history, the rivals have fed their followers with so much hate against each other that now political identities at ground zero defy the leadership.
There is a groundswell of support in PAGD’s favour but it is so wavering in certain areas that it can upset the calculations of top Kashmir parties. PAGD leaders admit they had not envisioned it. There are rebellions within the parties. At countless places, a PAGD candidate is in the contest against proxy candidates of the PAGD constituents.