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Indepedent journalist/ Researcher / State subject of J&K

Srinagar
Joined September 2009
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Umer Maqbool retweeted
You are absolutely correct about the SSB paper leak in J&K @JPNadda ji but you have got the date wrong. It was 2022. The government wasn’t of NC & Congress. It was a government headed by Lt. Governor but thank you for reminding everyone of this failure. It involved these observations & orders of the J&K High Court. We have no idea what happened to the High Level Committee or its report. Perhaps you can share that with us in your next press conference.
#WATCH | Delhi: Union Health Minister JP Nadda says, "If I talk about the paper leak in the Service Selection Board examination in Jammu and Kashmir where the government is of Congress and NC of National Conference. Similarly, in Himachal Pradesh, the paper leak happened in Himachal Pradesh School Examination Board where the government is of Congress. Similarly, in Jharkhand, Hindi and Science papers were leaked in JAC where the government is of Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. In Telangana, the language paper of Intermediate was leaked and there too we know that the government is supported by Congress and CPI. In Telangana, the language paper was leaked in SSC and there too the government is supported by Congress Party and CPI. In Tamil Nadu, the paper leak happened in the B.Ed course paper of what we call Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University Board, there was an opposition government there too at that time. In West Bengal, the recruitment exam paper of Police Constable was leaked. There was a TMC government there at that time. In Punjab, the Punjab Subordinate Service Selection Board experienced paper leaks and malpractices in the Group B examination. Similarly, in Keralam, irregularities occurred in 26 PSC exam papers. In Karnataka, where the Congress government is, there was a paper leak in the Preparatory Board exam. The PUC paper was leaked. This is a fairly long list, which we'll want to discuss whenever it's time. I'd like to ask the LoP Rahul Gandhi, why are you so selective? Why haven't you discussed the UPA and UPA-supported governments? Why have you distanced yourself from them? This clearly shows that your objective isn't the welfare of students. Your objective is to improve education, improve the quality of education, and ensure justice for students. You're not interested in this. You want to gain political mileage from student issues and demands. You want to make political gains, which is unfortunate..."
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Umer Maqbool retweeted
My walk from Jantar Mantar was about to turn into another procession so we grabbed the first available means of transport 🛺.
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Here is a 90 year old man leading from the front for J&K’s rights & dignity while some others sit at home posting tweets.
VIDEO | Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah holds protest in the national capital for J&K statehood. J&K Deputy Chief Minister, Surinder Choudhary, says, "It is the misfortune of the people of Jammu and Kashmir that today we have to come to Delhi to protest and remind our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of their promise. You promised the people of Jammu and Kashmir that you would restore statehood after the elections. Today, it has been nearly a year and a half, and neither the Prime Minister nor the Home Minister has fulfilled that promise. To make them honor that commitment, the National Conference, the Congress, and all our other partner parties have come together to Delhi today to remind them that after nearly a year and a half since the Omar Abdullah government was formed, yet you are not fulfilling your promise.' You will have to fulfill this promise. You made it in Parliament, you made it in the Supreme Court, and you made it to every single child in Jammu and Kashmir that you would restore statehood. When will that 'appropriate time' of yours finally come? We have come to Delhi today just to find out the answer to this." (Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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Umer Maqbool retweeted
After careful deliberation PDP has decided to join the Jantar Mantar protest only if the restoration of Article 370 & release of political prisoners are at the heart of the agenda. Participating in a protest that is confined solely to statehood would amount to putting the last nail in the coffin of our larger constitutional struggle for Article 370 thus legitimising BJP’s illegal August 5, 2019 actions. Our fight is for constitutional rights not one time symbolic gestures.
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PDP President @MehboobaMufti visited the ancestral residence of Chief Minister @OmarAbdullah to offer her condolences to him and the bereaved family on the passing of Dr. Mustafa Kamal.
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Chief Minister @OmarAbdullah has said that J&K parties with representation in the Assembly, either in the past or at present, will be invited to participate in the proposed Jantar Mantar protest programme. 1. Parties likely to be invited based on this criterion: Regional parties: (a). @jkpdp – has had representation in all Assemblies since 2002 (b). @JKPCOfficial – 1983, 2014, 2024 (c). @JKPDFKHANSAHIB -2008, 2014. (d). Panthers Party 2. INDIA bloc allies with Assembly representation: 1. INC – has had representation in almost all Assemblies since 1967 2. CPI(M) – has had representation in all Assemblies since 1996 3. AAP- has representation in current Assembly. @ @JK_AIP question It will be interesting to watch whether @JK_AIP will be invited as a party. MP Er. Rashid and MLA Sheikh Khursheed won as independents and are recognized as independents by both the Lok Sabha and the J&K Assembly. Parties that don’t meet the criteria: Apni Party, DPAP, JDF, and Awami National Conference. Note: Awami National Conference was in power between 1984-1986, but all those MLAs were elected on @JKNC tickets. Defunct or banned regional or national parties with past Assembly representation: 1. Jamaat-e-Islami 2. Bharatiya Jana Sangh 3. Janata Party 4. Awami League 5. Democratic Party (Nationalist) 6. Jammu Praja Parishad 7. Harijan Mandal National parties with past representation, now dormant or split: 1. Janata Dal – (5 MLAs in 1996 ) 2. Bahujan Samaj Party –( 4 MLAs in 1996, 1 MLA in 2002) 3. All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) – (1 MLA in 1996) – at Sopore, Jammu & Kashmir, India
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Umer Maqbool retweeted
بیرونی راہنماؤں کی فقیرانہ زندگی اور عام رہن سہن سے متاثر ہونا کسی تعجب کی بات نہیں ہے۔ عام شخص کے لئے فطرتی عمل ہے اور عبرت کا مقام بھی۔ تاہم ان کے لئے تعجب، حیرت اور لمحہ فکریہ ضرور ہو سکتا ہے جو اذیت خانوں کو رہائشی محلوں میں تبدیل کرنے کا ہنر جانتے ہیں۔ حرف صداقت
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Finally, @MehboobaMufti deleted the tweet about visiting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sb’s abode. But why did it take almost 24 hours to remove a misleading claim? Will news portals + FB pages delete their posts built on that misleading claim ? This is about Islamic history. Not headlines. Correct it. – at Bandipore, Jammu & Kashmir
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Jamaran Hussainiya was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s residence & speech venue from 1980- 1989. It is not residence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei @jkpdp – at Bandipore, Jammu & Kashmir
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Blessings and patronage matters for Kashmiri leaders. He recommended and facilitated another leader’s visit. He himself now claims that he was not allowed to visit. – at Sopore, Jammu & Kashmir, India
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PDP leaders and supporters are busy sharing every video praising the young boy’s remarks. Fair enough. But I have one question. Would they have defended him with the same enthusiasm had he criticised the PDP government in 2016? When schools remained shut for months after the Burhan Wani unrest, then Education Minister Naeem Akhtar still conducted board exams in November despite widespread opposition. Dissent was hardly welcomed and newspapers critical of the government also faced action. Would this boy have been celebrated then or silenced? Defending free speech is easy from the opposition. The real test is whether you uphold it when you’re in power.
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Former minister @HaseebDrabu writes in @GreaterKashmir that @MehboobaMufti's visit to AIIMS violated established norms of governance protocol and propriety. Would @MehboobaMufti or @jkpdp contest the claim of former Finance Minister of their party ?
Kashmir’s mainstream politics isn’t just dysfunctional, it’s actively self-destructive. Clawing at each other over patronage and past scores, it is eroding the very space for democratic politics. The only winner? The status quo. The Politics of Mutual Ruin greaterkashmir.com/opinion/t…
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When did contractual/ temporary employees become gazetted employees? 😃😃😀😄😁🤣😂
Gazetted posts outsourced to a construction company in Delhi is an outright betrayal of J&K’s youth. Public jobs are being handed to private companies, replacing transparency with uncertainty. Young professionals deserve secure, merit-based employment, job security instead of contracts with no future. Stop selling public jobs.
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