“Allah must have thought good for us. I’m optimistic,” Tabbasum, wife of Muhammad Afzal Guru, had said recently.

Repeated attempts by this correspondent to contact the girls failed. “They don’t want to speak to the media. In fact, the families have been advised against making any public comments on the issue,” said a family friend of one of them.

Acting on chief minister Omar Abdullah’s directive, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday registered an FIR against those who allegedly abused the Valley’s only all-girl rock band “Pragaash” on social networking sites, compell-ing them to disband. “Abo-ut half a dozen have been identified and will be arr-ested soon,” sources said.

It appears all over for Kas-hmir’s only all-girl rock band, at least for now. The three-member group has apparently decided to disband to avoid more trouble for themselves and their families. “Please, leave us alone,” said the father of one of the girls on Monday, a day after Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Bashiruddin issued a fatwa saying singing by females was “un-Islamic”, asking the teenaged girls’ parents “to rope their children in teachings of Islam”.

Mufti Azam or Grand Mufti of Kashmir chose to issue a formal decree against what he called is “trivial act” in the belief it does not develop a society but is a first step to demolish its moral fabric. He said here, “I’m happy that the new generation has attained a pro-development and pro-religion stance but there are some girls treading on the path of destruction.

Cross-LoC trade and bus services via Chakan-da-Bagh transit point in Poonch-Rawlakote corridor, suspended in the aftermath of recent bloody skirmishes along the Line of Control, will likely resume on

The Jammu and Kashmir police alert asking residents to build underground bunkers to prepare for a possible nuclear war is snowballing into a major controversy.

Two Army jawans posted in Kashmir frontier were killed and another injured in a “weather-related” incident on Friday.

Jammu and Kashmir’s nomadic Gujjar and Bakarwal tribes have lost 12 “rare indigenous” species of sheep, goats, horses and dogs during the past four decades as a result of induction of foreign high-yie

Soon after Monday’s flag meeting between the area commanders of the facing armies at Chakan-da-Bagh crossing point, Pakistan had said that one civilian resident was injured in India’s renewed firing i