Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

The cross-examination of witnesses in the three-decade-old cases of the gunning down of four IAF personnel and the abduction of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter Rubaiya Sayeed in Jammu and Kashmir began

A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammd Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Iltija Mufti, the daughter of Jammu and Kashmir's detained leader Mehbooba Mufti, has not been allowed to visit the grave of her grandfather on his death anniversary. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, a former Chief Minister of the state, had died on January 7, 2016. His grave is in the Anantnag district, around 60 km from Srinagar.

BJP's national working president JP Nadda in Chandigarh on Monday said Article 370 was a temporary provision in the Constitution and blamed the Abdullah family, late Peoples Democratic Party leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for "confusing" people about the special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

The National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today joined forces to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the two regional parties had ruined three generations of Jammu and Kashmir, pointing out that the ruling BJP had joined forces with both on several instances in the past.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Rath Yatra was stopped and its leader Lal Krishna Advani arrested in Bihar in October 1990 though then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had advised against it, said Lalu Yadav, who was the Chief Minister of the state then.

Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, leaders of the two main political parties of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP), called a truce on Twitter on the third death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former chief minister and father of the PDP chief. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died in 2016, leaving a huge v...

A short drive from Srinagar, the district of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir was once the once the bastion of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's family. It is now considered among the most volatile regions in the valley. Security forces are everywhere but not so easily found are political workers.

At her first public meeting after losing the chief minister's chair last month, Peoples Democratic Party boss Mehbooba Mufti today said she had reservations about the alliance with BJP right from the beginning and had advised her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed against it. But he overruled her, arguing that the coalition wasn't meant to build infrastr...

Jammu and Kashmir saw the lowest voter turnout in Srinagar's repeat by-poll in the history of the state with only two per cent showing up at polling stations. The unprecedented violence during the first by-poll on last Sunday, which also saw only seven per cent voters, resulted in eight deaths and injuries to more than 100 security personnel. But f...

MP Tariq Hameed Karra joined the Congress on Saturday, five months after quitting the People's Democratic Party (PDP), apparently miffed by the ruling alliance, BJP-PDP. He accused the central government of "mishandling" the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday expanded her nine-month-old ministry for the first time with the induction of senior People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Syed Altaf Bukhari, who was dropped when she formed the government after the death of her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Sharad Pawar, chief of the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP, and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi have been awarded the country's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, this year. The Padma Shri awards celebrate the "Unsung Hero", with a 68-year-old martial art expert, a weaver and several doctors sharing honours with India's cricket ...

Tasaduq Mufti, son of late Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, formally joined the ruling PDP on occasion of his father's first death anniversary.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today visited her father's grave, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, at Bijbehara in Anantnag district to offer prayers on his first death anniversary.

The cross-examination of witnesses in the three-decade-old cases of the gunning down of four IAF personnel and the abduction of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter Rubaiya Sayeed in Jammu and Kashmir began

A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammd Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Iltija Mufti, the daughter of Jammu and Kashmir's detained leader Mehbooba Mufti, has not been allowed to visit the grave of her grandfather on his death anniversary. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, a former Chief Minister of the state, had died on January 7, 2016. His grave is in the Anantnag district, around 60 km from Srinagar.

BJP's national working president JP Nadda in Chandigarh on Monday said Article 370 was a temporary provision in the Constitution and blamed the Abdullah family, late Peoples Democratic Party leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for "confusing" people about the special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

The National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today joined forces to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the two regional parties had ruined three generations of Jammu and Kashmir, pointing out that the ruling BJP had joined forces with both on several instances in the past.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Rath Yatra was stopped and its leader Lal Krishna Advani arrested in Bihar in October 1990 though then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had advised against it, said Lalu Yadav, who was the Chief Minister of the state then.

Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, leaders of the two main political parties of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP), called a truce on Twitter on the third death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former chief minister and father of the PDP chief. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died in 2016, leaving a huge v...

A short drive from Srinagar, the district of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir was once the once the bastion of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's family. It is now considered among the most volatile regions in the valley. Security forces are everywhere but not so easily found are political workers.

At her first public meeting after losing the chief minister's chair last month, Peoples Democratic Party boss Mehbooba Mufti today said she had reservations about the alliance with BJP right from the beginning and had advised her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed against it. But he overruled her, arguing that the coalition wasn't meant to build infrastr...

Jammu and Kashmir saw the lowest voter turnout in Srinagar's repeat by-poll in the history of the state with only two per cent showing up at polling stations. The unprecedented violence during the first by-poll on last Sunday, which also saw only seven per cent voters, resulted in eight deaths and injuries to more than 100 security personnel. But f...

MP Tariq Hameed Karra joined the Congress on Saturday, five months after quitting the People's Democratic Party (PDP), apparently miffed by the ruling alliance, BJP-PDP. He accused the central government of "mishandling" the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday expanded her nine-month-old ministry for the first time with the induction of senior People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Syed Altaf Bukhari, who was dropped when she formed the government after the death of her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Sharad Pawar, chief of the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP, and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi have been awarded the country's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, this year. The Padma Shri awards celebrate the "Unsung Hero", with a 68-year-old martial art expert, a weaver and several doctors sharing honours with India's cricket ...

Tasaduq Mufti, son of late Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, formally joined the ruling PDP on occasion of his father's first death anniversary.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today visited her father's grave, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, at Bijbehara in Anantnag district to offer prayers on his first death anniversary.