I tweeted this at 1:30 pm on 2 June 2024 when almost all Indian TV channels were predicting 342 to 401 seats for the NDA. All exit polls seemed to have been conducted by only one agency which went to the TV channels with minor changes. I just mentioned two particular landslide
India has witnessed landslide victories in Lok Sabha elections two times in the last 40 years: In 1984 for
@INCIndia
and in 2019 for
@BJP4India
. Both the times, there was a fairly visible pre-poll wave across the nation for the victors. In 1984, the Parliamentary elections were
Why are India's neighbours stronger than India? There's no India in China. There's no India in Pakistan. No India in Nepal. Contrarily, thanks to democracy, there's a big China in India, a big Pakistan in India. Even a Nepal in India.
All phone, SMS and internet services are functioning with full speed in Kashmir for the first time on the Indian Independence Day on 15 August since 2003.
When I reported, over one IR, that terrorists who attacked Akshardham temple, killing 30, had left from a J&K Minister's house after staying there for 20 days, India was mute. Minister resigned. CM rejected his resignation. Delhi asked no questions. India has changed in 18 years.
When
@BJP4India
President Murli Manohar Joshi and
@narendramodi
hoisted the Indian national flag at Lalchowk in Srinagar on the Republic Day in January 1992, a 26-year-old youth, Mohammad Ashraf Hajam aka 'Azad', who was associated with a militant outfit, went there out of
When 23 KPs were massacred at Wandhama on 26 Jan 1998, PM Gujral flew to Kashmir for national winter games at Gulmarg. He inaugurated sports carnival on 28 Jan when smoke & ashes of funeral pyres were still in air. Who to blame for lack of empathy and collective consciousness?
BREAKING:
@NIA_India
court orders framing of charges against Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masrat Alam, Hafiz Syed, Shalahuddin in terror funding case under UAPA.
BIG NEWS: According to the Geological Survey of India, Lithium inferred resources (G3) of 5.9 million tonnes have been found in Salal-Haimana area of the Reasi District of Jammu & Kashmir. Lithium is the key component in manufacturing of EV batteries.
From 1999 to 2019, such attacks/killings were no news. All those Ministers & MPs yelling in Parliament yesterday were silent spectators to Vajpayee Ji's long rope to the amphibians enjoying the day with India and the night with Pak. That era ended with the killing of 40 CRPF men.
FIRST TIME IN J&K: Indian national flag to be unfurled at 23,000 schools on occasion of Independence Day on 15 August. All headmasters/principals asked to lead singing of the Indian national anthem (Rashtra Gaan) and upload it's video on a national website.
My daughter Nighat Nasreen on life support since 5 Jun is waiting for liver transplant & we are losing our time fast. Our donors have been rejected. As the last option,
#IBLS
New Delhi listed her for Diseased Donor Liver Translation (DDLT). They didn't receive any response so far
Kashmiri Pandit Bal Krishen aka Sonu (32) fired upon by terrorists at his pharmacy at Chotigam Harmain in Shopian district at 7:30 pm in the 4th incident in 24 hours. With 3 gunshot injuries, he was rushed to a Srinagar hospital. Only 3 Pandit families live in Chotigam.
History at Srinagar airport: On 28 March 2022, Srinagar Airport handled 90 flights--45 arrivals & 45 departures--with total of 15,000 passengers. Never before. This is the beginning of spring-2022 in Kashmir.
After 1989, the Indian Prime Minister's visit to Kashmir was often a problem. Separatists and militants used to call for and enforce a shutdown. On many such occasions there used to be a curfew or other restrictions. Crackdown, cordon-and-search operations, physical frisking of
All thanks to Almighty that 75 days after her Acute Liver Failure & 69 days after her successful liver transplant at ILBS, my daughter Nighat Nasreen has been discharged from the hospital this evening. She is now virtually in her 2nd life. Our sincere thanks to all who helped.
Kashmiri Pandit Sampat Prakash on
#TheKashmirFiles
. He says that the filmmaker has singled out the pain and anguish of a minority and eclipsed the larger trauma suffered by everyone including the majority community which was never responsible for killing or dragging out Pandits.
Symbols of power in 2018-19: NIA's SP Arvind Negi, JKP's DSP Davinder Singh, J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti's right hand man Waheedur Rehman Para. All in jail now.
BREAKING HERE:
On 29 November 2022, Gujarat conman Patel visited the garrison township of Uri (Baramulla) near LoC under Z-plus security cover including SSB's double escort. He visited Russia in January 2023. 1st alert to Govt in Srinagar & Delhi came from DC Budgam on 25 Feb
May Allah's curse be on the murderers who shot dead 14, including 2 newborn babies, nurses and doctors, at a maternity home in western Kabul today in this holy month of fasting.
Firing on 4 civilians, including 3-year-old Asima Jan, at Dangarpora Sopore in
#Kashmir
is an act of savagery, brutality and brazen terrorism. Deserves unqualified condemnation from one & all. It may spread some fear but no act of terrorism can silence the Kashmiris to infinity.
1/4
Kashmir Education officers kept 20 zero-threat teachers posted for 19 students at a school in high security zone of Tulsibagh Srinagar. Supinder Kaur & Deepak Chand were posted in high danger zone of Eidgah. Both were shot dead on 7 Oct 2021. Zero-threat teachers were posted
This is through 4G from my smartphone. First time after 4 August 2019 in J&K. Thank you all. Telecommunications lockdown has just ended in Jammu and Kashmir.
I'm neither Modi bhakt nor impressed by
@BJP4India
ideology/governance. But impressed by this Kashmir BJP leader Sofi Yusuf's passion for remaining connected to his people. See the enthusiasm somewhere in Mehbooba ji's Anantnag district where a BJP man was shot dead last week.
Killing of Rajasthan truck driver Mohammad Sharief in Shirmal Shopian is yet another act of unpardonable brutality and savagery apparently to terrorise lakhs of Kashmiri fruit growers and transporters. Shame on the people who do such acts, who condone & who condemn selectively.
See this incredible festival of democracy at Ganasthaan, Sumbal, in northern
#Kashmir
where the entire Halqa population has gathered with enthusiasm to hear results of Panch and Sarpanch elections after exercising their right to vote on Tuesday 1 December.
Video
@ahmedalifayyaz
As of now, total lithium resources with China are 5.1 MT and with the USA 7.9 MT. The Jammu & Kashmir discovery of 5.9 MT, if the GSI calculation is correct, could be a game changer not only for the UT but also for the country. The first right of benefit must be J&K's.
Even as the communication blackout in entire
#Kashmir
is continuing since Aug 5, courtesy some friend I have got access to Internet for 10 minutes. God has been kind enough. We haven't received any report of clashes or violence from any part of Valley today or in last 5 days.
Editor-in-Chief VNS Rayees Bhat disappears in Bijbehara on 8/08/21. Killed in encounter on 30/03/22. Adil Farooq Bhat of CNS is held with grenades on 10/08/21. 3rd journo-student is booked under PSA & arrested in Bandipora. Something's wrong with teaching of journalism at CUK?
2 days before her assassination on 31 Oct 1984, PM Indira Gandhi visited Srinagar only to see the falling Chinar leaves in autumn. A special pooja was held at Sharika Devi temple. The priest gave her Prasad. It fell on the floor. She told ML Fotedar that her death was imminent.
VERY URGENT
We are starting Nighat Nasreen's liver transplant at ILBS New Delhi at 3 pm. Need 10 pints of fresh blood any group tomorrow before 5 pm. Friends currently in New Delhi may reach ILBS Emergency Block, Blood Bank, for Nighat Nasreen, Ref UHID ILBS.0000281576 tomorrow.
Militants happily dying in encounters. Civilians losing homes, teens dying under burning debris. BSF men buying chicken for Iftar getting killed on street. Schools shuttered. Politics suspended. No migrant daring to return. If
#Kashmir2020
is what it was in 1990, who’s to blame?
Framing of charges in the same case also ordered against ex-MLA Engineer Rashid, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Farooq Ahmad Dar aka Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmad Shah Hilali aka Shahidul Islam, Nayeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bhat aka Peer Saifullah.
Has
@realDonaldTrump
or
@narendramodi
created anything on earth like Taj Mahal that the people, Presidents and Prime Ministers and their families from all over the world would be keenly visiting 400 years from now? Salutes to Shah Jehan, architect Ahmad Lahuri, masons, workers.
URGENT
Liver transplant operation of my daughter Nighat Nasreen completed by a team of doctors at ILBS New Delhi at 8 am today. Now need 10 pints of blood any group today. Friends in Delhi may reach ILBS Blood Bank in Emergency Block 10 a.m to 4.00 pm. Contact Sadaat 7780993660
SPO Ishfaq & his bro Umer, killed in Chatabugh Budgam, are latest victims of "the genocide of every pro-Indian incl perceived pro-Indian in Kashmir" which began with killing of Yusuf Halwai on 21/8/1989 and is continuing even after 20K killings. It's not internecine or collateral
LG
@manojsinha_
@OfficeOfLGJandK
can do a big favour to J&K people if he seals the SLEEPING ROOMS of doctors & nurses on night duty at all hospitals in the UT. Currently, all patients sleep & doctors remain awake in Delhi hospitals while in J&K patients remain awake & docs sleep.
Keeping phones/Internet off for fear of "sabotage" & "propaganda" is like destroying roads & bridges for fear of "militants' movement". In both cases, Govt should have own mechanism of checks & balances/surveillance. Don't make life of common man miserable for your own failures.
11 months after her sudden total liver failure in just 48 hours, followed by a full (cadaver) liver transplant at ILBS New Delhi, daughter Nighat Nasreen joined back her duty in Srinagar today. Infinite thanks to Almighty who granted her 2nd life, her donor, her doctors & other
Backdoor appointment of the children & other relatives of top politicians & bureaucrats and their elevation to top KAS/IAS positions without passing any competitive exams has been the most abominable act of successive political regimes in J&K. LG should nail it without compromise
Let the history be written correctly. Not one Kashmiri has forced/encouraged any Amarnath pilgrims/tourists or non-Kashmiri students/workers/traders to leave the Valley. Not a single attack or even an altercation has been reported anywhere. We are watching this with a heavy heart
Hugely indebted to lakhs, perhaps millions, of people, 1000s of school students, University & IIT students & teachers, friends, media colleagues who prayed & are praying for recovery of my daughter Nighat Nasreen from Acute Liver Failure or offered support in these tough times.
Pakistan is to India what it was on any day in last 75 yrs. May be same for yonks. The calm in
#Kashmir
post-August 2019 is primarily for th fact that 90% of the turmoil there was because of the licensed & permitted "Pakistan within" which has been muted by Delhi for the 1st time
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He is the stanch
@BJP4India
worker, ex-Sarpanch and
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi
supporter Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh of Herpora Shopian who was shot dead in a terror attack around 10:30 pm last night. Speaking to the media recently, he had identified himself as a former stone pelter who used
#MeAt20
When one would watch 'Light & Sound' at 10 pm at Shalamar garden, return to Lalchowk by bus at 1.00 am and walk to home 10 miles further away free of any fear. When nobody used to kill anybody.
If the govt agencies' claim about a German-American lady is true, India's national security has been hugely compromised. This lady, pushed in by a sr
@INCIndia
leader, stayed with a CM for 8 years in Kashmir. Now Sarkar says she was "ISI agent" & was 'deported' from India in 2016
Amit Shah's first visit coupled with IT raids on premises of politicians & businessmen across J&K have abruptly frozen tweets & statements from all politicians & businessmen. Even those religiously prolific in commenting, liking and disliking tweets & Fb posts have disappeared.
1/4:
@JmuKmrPolice
release telephonic conversation between footballer-turnred-militant Amir Siraj of Sopore & his father during an encounter in Kreeri (Baramulla) on 24 Dec 2020 in which Amir is repentant over joining militancy. He is heard telling his father that it was his...
"The first Jihad for him is to take care of his 4 sisters and get them married. If you don't return him, you will have to answer on the day of judgement", Gulzar Ahmed Ganai, 14-yr-old recruit Faisal's father implored the militants in an appeal. 2 days later he died in encounter.
Thank you Mr
@nitin_gadkari
and all others who made it possible in Jammu & Kashmir. Until recently, driving through these hills would upset our stomachs and literally break our necks.
In Srinagar, 2 cops were gunned down on Friday at Baghat Barzulla where a sandbag bunker was removed after years on Tuesday. Now who will question return of the bunkers, checking of vehicles, frisking of passengers, raids, arrests & detentions? Who's spoiling calm in the valley?
Condolences, condemnations, tweets, meetings, memoranda are fine. But can we name a single leader from valley-based political/religious/social/cultural organisations who has visited the traumatized Kashmiri Pandits at Sheikhpora Budgam or other camps after Rahul Bhat's killing?
#Kashmir
DSP Davinder Singh's dramatic arrest with 2 militants has created big national security questions for India: Either he was working for militants since Parliament attack days OR the militants--JeM's Mohammad to HM's Naveed Mushtaq--were working for India through Davinder.
52 days after losing her consciousness due to Acute Liver Failure & 44 days after her liver transplant at ILBS, my daughter Nighat Nasreen finally made her first phone call to me from her hospital bed today-- a day after her tracheostomy was removed & her voice was restored. She
All three "suspected militants" killed in Amshipora Shopian 'encounter' on 18 July 2020, have been repeatedly identified as the missing labourers of Rajouri on basis of photographs by the families. If true, first such case after killing of 3 Nadihal civilians in Kupwara in 2010.
Civilian (property dealer) Rauf Ahmad Khan shot dead by terrorists at Mirjanpura Nawakadal in downtown
#Srinagar
. ASI Mohammad Ashraf shot dead in Bijbehara, Anantnag. Condemnations and condolences pouring in.
Killed for what crime?
BREAKING HERE: 2 Militants kidnapped a J&K Police constable in Yaripora, Kulgam. Police got the constable rescued and killed both militants in the brief encounter. One cop is injured.
•Reporting the death of the two young women in Shopian on 29 May 2009 became the toughest challenge when an opposition leader said on TV that foreheads of the two women had been smeared with vermillion before they were "raped and murdered". It became dangerous when NDTV
Getting a bed, with oxygen & other facilities, is now a luxury in Jammu. 3 days back 2 Covid+ve sisters were referred from Kishtwar. They failed to get a bed in Jammu. Hired an ambulance for Rs 35,000 & left for SKIMS Srinagar. Both patients died in road mishap near Qazigund.
Anybody in India has never been so brutely aggressive/unequivocal after 1971 in asserting its stand on Kashmir and dismissing the separatist narrative. Feb 2019 is a game changer like 9/11. If our conventional politicians think they can still play an old role, they are mistaken.
780 crore people live on Earth. As they stood indoors in the worldwide Corona lockdown, we a few lakhs on a few sq inches in Kashmir began crying that this & that star was falling straight on us. Many of us thronged mosques for "tauba". We don't know how many more got infected.
Proud of our real life heroes Shiv & Shanti. Living & staying with dignity among us in their villages. Shiv & me worked together in
@DailyExcelsior1
for years before he cracked KAS. Now an SP. Shanti with PhD in Sanskrit is a Professor at KU. Some day also listen to their story.
If Indira Gandhi would have been PM today, may be she would have taught a lesson to China. But if Rahul Gandhi would have been PM today, the Dragon would have by now swallowed entire Ladakh + J&K.
How many of us know that the same JKLF terrorists who killed BL Ganjoo mercilessly in Chota Bazar also shot dead his neighbour GM Teeli's son Merajuddin, Gulshan Bakery's Hindu owner of Agra and a Muslim girl of Zaindar Mohalla with untold brutality in same mohalla, same period?
First time in 33 years of militancy, MBBS & BDS seats have been reserved for "victims of terrorism" in Jammu and Kashmir in central pool. BOPEE has called for applications from permanent residents and children of Central/State/UT employees posted in J&K. 11 Nov 2022 is the last
J&K Police Probationary Sub Inspectors and JE (Civil) aspirants are suffering due to excessive delay in the declaration of their results by
@jkssbofficial
. Their tests were held in December 2022 after scrapping earlier ones for valid reasons. According to the candidates, JKHC
2 more non-Kashmiri fruit truck drivers shot dead. Their vehicles torched in Shopian. Yet another barbaric, abominable act to spread terror among lakhs of apple growers, traders and transporters. Our unqualified condemnation on this act of brazen terrorism.
We have noticed that so many people in Kashmir do take Corona warnings & lockdown very lightly. They continue attending condolences, prayers at mosques. Everyone must know the COVID progression is fast & huge: 1》10》100》1000》10,000 and so on. Youngsters please alert elders.
Had 40 CRPF men not died ahead of LS elections in
#pulwamaattack
on Feb 14, leading to a political storm, I'm sure nothing would have changed in
#Kashmir
. NIA/CBI/IT/ JKP would have continued to be slow & soft, JKLF & JEI wouldn't have been banned, Yasin Malik would have been out
BIG BREAKING: Maj Litul Gogoi, who paraded a civilian Farooq Ahmed Dar of Chill Brass Beerwah on bonnet of his vehicle on 9/4/2017, was just now caught in comprising position with a woman, at Mamta Hotel Dalgate and arrested by Police Station Khanyar.
Emotional scenes at reunion with families of the two militants who surrendered before security forces during an operation at Tajjar Sharief in Sopore Kashmir.
#Back2Home
A sculpture of goddess Durga carved on black stone, deity seated on lion throne, with Gandhara school of art influence, believed to be of 7th century AD, has been found during excavation in Khag area of Budgam district in Kashmir today & handed over to Department of Archaeology.
Family members of SAS Geelani just confirmed to me that the senior most Kashmiri separatist leader has passed away a while ago at his Hyderpora residence. Inna lillahi wa inna illaihi rajioon.
For now the cold wave is receding, Covid-19 is relenting, sunshine is back, vaccination is picking up, 4G is back. Many fears are diminishing. God is great and merciful on us.
1 more, a resident of Soibug Budgam, who had earlier escaped from JLNM/SKIMS, has been taken back to SKIMS and has tested Positive with Covid-19 today. He had reportedly returned from Odisha and intermingled with a particular religious gathering at Bemina. Contacts under scanner.
Cognizant of acute shortage of Covid testing kits & portable ventilators in J&K, I have convinced 2 German manufacturers to arrange for some bulk consignments for JK. They are under tremendous order load but agreed to oblige. If anyone in J&K Govt is interested, we can facilitate