MUFTI SAYEED
Mehbooba Mufti re-elected as PDP president for three more years
While Mufti has managed to retain the grip over the party, most of the prominent leaders including some founding members have left over the last two years.
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Probe agencies carrying out 'audit' of my father's grave: Mehbooba Mufti
In her first reaction after her party's youth wing leader Waheed Parra was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Mehbooba said the probe agencies have been burrowing through government files and her bank accounts for the last two years and found nothing.
Political parties in J&K have become 'everybody's favourite whipping boy': Mehbooba Mufti
Nevertheless, the PDP leader said, they are prepared for a "long and arduous political fight" for the restoration of Article 370 of the Constitution which was "illegally" abrogated.
Mehbooba alleges Centre disrespecting Constitution
"If the laws are not accepted by the farmers, can they be beneficial to them. If you bring laws which are not acceptable to people, you are disrespecting the Constitution of the country," she said while addressing a party function.
Will hold tricolour and J&K flag together: Former CM Mehbooba Mufti
Former J&K CM had last month said that she was not interested in contesting elections or holding the national flag till the constitutional changes enforced on August 5 last year were rolled back, sparking protests in Jammu.
BJP desecrated Constitution by abrogating Article 370; people of Jammu upset as well: Mehbooba Mufti
The PDP leader said a cross-section of people, including industrialists, traders, youth, Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and Other Backward Classes met her over the past five days and expressed their concern over the future of their coming generations in the aftermath of the revocation of special status and the newly introduced land laws, wherein people from outside can buy land in the Union Territory.
PDP chief bats for talks with Pakistan, opening of cross-border roads to resolve Jammu & Kashmir
The former chief minister warned that militancy is on the rise in the Valley with more youths preferring "militancy over going to jail" after "no middle path was left and voices of dissent silenced through the muzzle of power".
Our present battle is for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's special position: Mehbooba Mufti
The former chief minister said while her party had battled against alleged excesses committed by the task force of police and surrendered militants in the past, it would now focus on the restoration of special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Top netas under scanner as J&K HC orders CBI probe into ‘land usurpation’
The high court has “prima facie found culpability of government officials at the highest level enabling encroachment of public lands and permitting their illegal vesting in the hands of private owners”. It ordered the CBI to “investigate their culpability”.
Mehbooba Mufti shifted to new location
“I was concerned about the health of my mother, but nobody was listening. The hut she was kept in had cracked windows and there was no adequate heating arrangement,” Iltija Mufti, daughter of Mehbooba Mufti, told ET. PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti along with former CMs Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, has been in detention since August 5.
Article 370 gone, next could be ex-CMs' homes in J&K
Barring Farooq Abdullah, all former CMs retain their rent-free government bungalows in Srinagar's fortified Gupkar Road neighbourhood.
If anything bad happened to Yasin Malik, govt would be responsible: Family
Family of jailed separatist leader Mohammad Yasin Malik Friday expressed worry over his well-being and said the government would be responsible if anything bad happened to him.
JKLF chief to face trial in Jammu in cases of gunning down of IAF personnel, Rubiya Syed kidnapping
Malik is presently lodged in Tihar jail in New Delhi after being arrested by the NIA in a case related to financing of terror and separatists organisations.
