Srinagar: Altaf Bukhari led group today formed two separate committees for meeting with Prime Minister, Home Minister with a memorandum which they had earlier submitted to Lieutenant Governor and the mandate of the second committee will be to meet people, intellectuals and public representatives across the board for deciding the future course of action.
A top leader who was part of the meeting said that the meeting under the chairmanship of former MLA Muhammad Altaf Bukhari started at 12 Pm and ended at 4 PM at the residence of Ghulam Hassan Mir in Bathandi Jammu.
Those who attended the meeting include Muhammad Altaf Bukhari, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Dilwara Mir, Usman Majeed, Javed Beigh, Shoaib lone, Abdul Rahim Rather( PDP), Abdul Majeed Paddar, Noor Muhammad, Hilal Shah, Asghar Ali (ex MLC) Yawar Mir, Showket Ahmed Gayoor, Javid Mir (civil society member), Dr Samiullh, Raja Manzoor, Muntazir Mohiudin and Javed Mirchal.
Notably, this is the second time group members had a meeting regarding the future course of action viz viz present situation.
Taking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Democratic Political Nationalist chief Ghulam Hassan Mir said, “We discussed the progress of our memorandum submitted to LG threadbare. We had demanded release of all prisoners. Some prisoners were released but our demand was all of them should be released. We also demanded restoration of internet services, it was restored partially. We had also demanded some policy measures for relief of businessmen community, regulation of airfares for boosting tourism,” he told KNS.
He added that our main demand was restoration of statehood and protection of land and jobs for locals. But nothing was heard from people at the helm of affairs,” he said.
Mir informed the KNS that all members decided that they should approach Prime Minister and Home Minister with the memorandum.
The meeting also decided that a committee will meet cross section of people including politicians, civil society members, intellectuals to seek their opinion, advice for deciding future course of the group which is in the interests of people of J&K. (KNS).
CBI raids 2 places including Grameen Bank branch in Kupwara
Kupwara, Jan 29 (KNS): Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today raided two places in north Kashmir’s frontier district Kupwara.
According to Kashmir News Service Correspondent, the CBI team raided the Jammu and Kashmir Grameen Bank Khumriyal Kupwara and also raided the house of the bank employee in Mazhar Hyma who was working in the Bank few years ago.
Sources told KNS that they took the important documents from the Bank in their procession and also collected some important bank documents from the house of the Bank employee.
The raid was done regarding the money embezzlement case in the bank sources added.
However when this report was filled the raid in the bank was going on.
A Senior police officer has confirmed the CBI raid at both the places in Kupwara (KNS).
