Pakistani prisoner's family arrives in India

NEW DELHI: Two family member of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who is in a Chandigarh hospital after being attacked in a Jammu jail, have reached India Tuesday after being granted permission from Indian officials.

The two family members arrived in Chandigarh via the Wagah-Attari border, according to a statement by the Pakistan High Commission. His two teenage sons were not able to receive visas because they both don't have ID cards.

Geelani Invited For Birmingham Conference

SRINAGAR: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani has been invited to participate in a Kashmir related international conference on 27th May in Birmingham.

The dignitaries affiliated to NGO, eminent political leaders and ambassadors from different countries are schedule to attend the said conference, a Hurriyat G spokesman said.

Syed Ali Geelani while accepting the invitation, has agreed to attend the said summit.

Omar angry at netizens' silence on youth killing by militant

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday lashed out at netizens who maintained silence over the killing of a teenaged boy by militants in Sopore town yesterday but had showed outrage against killing of a youth in security forces firing last week.

"Militants chase an 18-year-old boy in to a mosque and shoot him. Imagine the outrage if this had been done by security forces," Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.