Umer Maqbool

Indepedent journalist/ Researcher / State subject of J&K

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

Finally, @Cockroachisback wins

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

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.

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

My walk from Jantar Mantar was about to turn into another procession so we grabbed the first available means of transport 🛺.

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

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.

[Mehbooba Mufti @MehboobaMufti]

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.

[J&K PDP @jkpdp]

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.

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

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)

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

@ImranNDar May Allah grant him highest place in Jannah.

[Gowhar Geelani @GowharGeelani]

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

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

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.

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

Jamaran Hussainiya was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s residence & speech venue from 1980- 1989. It is not residence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei @jkpdp

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Per their consensus, Ladakh is to have elected body with legislative powers and a bureaucracy under its control on matters under the elected govt's jurisdiction.

@umerjournalist✍️
https://t.co/G6yAAcbAy8

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

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.

[Shakir Parray @shakirparray_]

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.

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

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 ?

[Haseeb Drabu @HaseebDrabu]

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 https://t.co/R3mYeO2eMM

[Umer Maqbool @umerjournalist]

@shangpal Dear Naeem Sahab, I don’t expect you to repost something that GLORIFIES and ROMANTICISES an indecent act against a woman.