Srinagar, (PTK): The first batch of 820 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir left for Saudi Arabia on Saturday to perform this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. Special buses from the Srinagar Hajj House in Bemina area took the pilgrims to the Srinagar International airport early on Saturday. Authorities said four Air India flights will be carrying them…
SRINAGAR, (PTK): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested by anti-corruption officials late on Friday after they arrived in Lahore from Abu Dhabi. According to reports, a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team has taken Nawaz Sharif and Maryam into custody. NAB officials said they had arranged two helicopters to…
QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A suicide blast ripped through a crowd at a political rally in southwest Pakistan Friday killing 128 people and wounding 150, officials told AFP, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s history.The blast in the town of Mastung, near the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta, was the latest in a string of attacks…
Srinagar, July 13: National Investigating Agency (NIA) has summoned a Srinagar based reporter to Delhi for questioning in Asiya Andrabi case. Auqib Javeed, an accredited journalist working with Kashmir Observer, has been summoned to NIA headquarters in connection with the case No case No RC-17/2018/NIA/DLI DATED 27TH April, 2018. “It appears you are aquatinted with the circumstances…
SRINAGAR, JULY 13 (PTK): Former military secretary Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain has been appointed as the chancellor of the Central University of Kashmir, according to a notification issued here today. “The President of India in his capacity as the Visitor of the Central University of Kashmir is pleased to appoint Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain,…
SRINAGAR, JULY 14 (PTK): Disgruntled PDP leader Imran Raza Ansari on Friday accused former CM and Mehbooba Mufti for putting their life at risk by her statement. In a series of tweets, Assembly member Ansari attacked his former party leader in the backdrop of Mehbooba’s threat to Delhi not to break PDP. “I am one of…
