Why kishtwar violence

When Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo resigned as the junior Home Minister of Kashmir this morning, his announcement made it clear that he was retiring injured.

Won't allow forced migration: Chidambaram on Kashmir. Three people have died in clashes in the Jammu region, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today and added that the government will not allow any forced migration from the area. Parliament's focal point is Kashmir violence, this MP sleeps through it all. The communal violence in Kishtwar in Kashmir was the focal point of Parliament today, but one MP was able to sleep through it all.

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.

The communal violence in Kishtwar last week has now snowballed into a major controversy with the BJP attacking the Omar Abdullah-led Jammu and Kashmir government over delayed action.

Mr Abdullah's party has invoked the riots in Gujarat in to fend off allegations regarding the conduct of one of its leaders, Sajjad Kichloo, who has resigned as t 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 when his state was lacerated by riots.

More News ». We are treated differently as if we aren't part of the mainstream: Omar. Kishtwar censored: Is the ban on media justified? Media ban in Kishtwar justified? District Magistrate Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana said the curfew, which was imposed in the town late night Thursday, was strictly in place and additional security personnel were deployed in sensitive areas of the town.

BJP state secretary Anil Parihar, 52, and his brother Ajeet, 55, were returning home from their shop when they were fired upon from close range. A day after receiving the interim report, Kichloo was re-inducted as a minister in state government on same portfolios, he said.

The govt also issued a separate order disbanding the one-man Commission of Inquiry which was headed by Divisional Commissioner Jammu Shantmanu.

Curfew was relaxed this morning in violence-hit Kishtwar district, even as a ministerial team reviewed the security situation. Army came to the rescue of a Czech couple stuck in curfew-bound Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir since August 8.

Kishtwar riots generated fresh heat in Lok Sabha today with BJP warning that the situation was fast turning into one similar to Under fire for his alleged role in the Kishtwar communal flare-up, Minister of State for Home Sajad Kitchloo resigned today even as fresh clashes erupted in the curfew-bound district leaving four persons including two policemen injured. Government today ruled out any terror or "external aggression" link to the communal violence in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that there will be no repeat of when Pandits were forced to leave Kashmir Valley.

Four persons, including two policemen, were injured in fresh clashes which broke out in Kishtwar on Monday as locals defied the curfew.

Bajrang Dal activists today held demonstration and blocked traffic on the national highway here. We will not allow forced migration. We will not allow forced resettlement," Chidambaram said in Rajya Sabha today. The state government has ordered an inquiry by the Divisional Commissioner into the incident and promised severe punishment to those found responsible.

The state administration has already clamped curfew in Jammu and Rajouri areas to avoid any untoward incident even as situation remains tense in the valley.

Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress has asked the state government to set up an independent commission of inquiry to probe the causes behind the violence in Kishtwar. Nifty 17, Honeywell 45, The repercussions of the violence in the Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir has been making headlines since 9 August. While Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today called for an all party meeting, opposition parties have slammed the government for not being able to control the situation.

As per police, the deceased worked as a salesman in the shop of Dr Sandaeep Mawa, a Kashmiri pandit businessman, whose shop is located at Zaina Kadal market in old Srinagar city. Kashmir has been umbilically connected to the Hindu and Indian civilisation.