Omar On Kashmir Violence

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  "They Feel Betrayed, Angry": Omar Abdullah On Ladakh Violence

  Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the situation in Leh town should be an eye-opener on how people of Jammu and Kashmir feel about the denial of statehood, even though Ladakh had not been promised one.

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  Centre Must Do "Something" To Improve Situation In J&K: Omar Abdullah

  People in Jammu and Kashmir are in distress as there is hardly a day without any violent incident, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday, asserting that the government should take steps to improve the situation.

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  Reports Of Violence In Jammu and Kashmir, Centre Must Come Clean, Says Rahul Gandhi

  A meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body to appoint its next chief was briefly halted after reports of "violence and deaths" emerged from Jammu and Kashmir, former party president Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday night. He said this to reporters minutes before the party leadership formally announced that his mother, UPA chairperson Sonia...

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  Development Cannot Solve All Problems: Omar Abdullah On PM's Kashmir Outreach

  Opposition National Conference today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to understand that the present turmoil in the Valley was not due to lack of development but unwillingness of the centre to address the Kashmir issue.

• Kishtwar violence: Parliament rocked again, curfew continues

  The Supreme Court today asked the Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary to file a detailed affidavit on Kishtwar clashes and the subsequent steps taken by the state government. The Kishtwar violence continued to remain a political flashpoint with noisy protests in Parliament by the Bharatiya Janata Party members. The party was also engaged in a slangin...

• Kishtwar row: Omar Abdullah factually incorrect on Narendra Modi's role in 2002, says BJP

  The BJP is especially rattled by Mr Abdullah's claim that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi waited for days before calling in the Indian Army to control the 2002 violence.

• Kishtwar violence: 11 arrested amid political war in Jammu and Kashmir

  The Jammu and Kashmir government today made the first arrests for the communal violence in Kishtwar which began on Friday, amid a raging political blame-game between the state's ruling National Conference, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, criticized for not controlling the violence, accused the BJP of ...

• Kishtwar clashes: Omar Abdullah invokes Narendra Modi to counter BJP on violence in Kashmir

  Under attack from the opposition for allegedly failing to check communal violence in his state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah retaliated by accusing the BJP of being "hypocrites" and ignoring major lapses by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 when his state was lacerated by riots.

• Kishtwar clashes: Jaitley targets Centre, Jammu and Kashmir government

  The communal violence in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, led to several disruptions in Parliament on Monday morning, with an angry BJP protesting over senior leader Arun Jaitley being stopped from visiting the violence-hit town yesterday and accusing the J&K government of "hiding the truth." The Centre has asked the state government for a report ami...

• Worried over fallout, Omar Abdullah prays for Gaza peace

  Worried over the possible fallout of the Gaza violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday hoped a truce takes effect there at the earliest.

• Kashmir: Violence erupts on Eid, Omar Abdullah blames Mirwaiz

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has blamed the separatists for the fresh bursts of violent protests in the Valley on the day of Eid-ul-fitr.Speaking to NDTV, Omar said the violence "will cast a shadow" on the process to push for changes in the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA)."My office got a call from a close confidante o...

• Valley on the edge: Railway employees flee to Jammu

  With the Valley continuing to burn and the state symbols attacked every day, it's a death zone for employees coming in from other states.As fresh violence was reported in Budgam on Tuesday, families of railway employees have fled to Jammu. They are not Kashmiris but people from other states who say they are not safe in the Valley as protesters are ...

• Srinagar: Martyrs' Day observed as separatists call protest march

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah laid a wreath in memory of the 21 people who were killed by troops of Maharaja outside Central Jail in Srinagar in 1931, as the city observed Martyrs' Day on Tuesday. The Chief Minister had indicated during the weekend that the situation in the Valley was under control and the state government would co...

• All-party meet on Kashmir begins, Mehbooba not attending

  The all-party peace meet called by J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to find a way out of the crisis in the state has begun.

• Omar briefs Chidambaram about situation in Kashmir

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday apprised Union Home Minister P Chidambaram about the situation in the state.