MP Rashid’s party seeks citizenship for ex-militants’ kin from PoK | India News

MP Rashid’s party seeks citizenship for ex-militants’ kin from PoK | India News

JAMMU: Jailed Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) said Sunday it had submitted an assembly resolution seeking citizenship and legal status for former militants’ wives and children who came from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under a 2010 rehabilitation policy. The J&K assembly’s budget session begins on Monday.Langate Shiekh Khursheed, AIP MLA and Rashid’s brother,…

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J&K HC upholds detention of a woman accused of having contact with Lakhvi’s nephew | India News

J&K HC upholds detention of a woman accused of having contact with Lakhvi’s nephew | India News

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool…

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Omar’s sons plead PSA case of Pulwama youth, HC orders release | India News

Omar’s sons plead PSA case of Pulwama youth, HC orders release | India News

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah. SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court on Friday quashed the preventive detention of a man booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for alleged involvement in anti-national activities.The detainee, Sajad Ahmad Bhat of Drabgam, Pulwama, was represented by Zameer Abdullah and Zahir Abdullah, the two sons of J&K chief…

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