Mehbooba Mufti is an Indian politician and former chief minister of Indian Occupied Kashmir (4th April 2016-19th June 2018). Mehbooba is the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and India's second Muslim woman chief minister after Syeda Anwara Taimur of Assam. She is the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mehbooba suppoted the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2016 but however she resigned on 19th June,2018 after BJP withdrew support from the coalition government. Mehbooba Mufti was a member of Indian parliament representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha. She had also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha. Her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was appointed as India's home minister in 1989 and was released after a few days in exchange for some terrorists. In 1996 state assembly elections, Mehbooba Mufti was one of the popular elected members from Bijbehra on INC ticket. Mehbooba Mufti contested in the parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar and she lost to the sitting member Omar Abdullah. She won her Pahalgam seat from South Kashmir, when assembly elections were held again in 2002.
Read MoreAngry protesters in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulgam district on Wednesday torched the house of Peoples Democratic Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Nazir Ahmad.
Advising children of Kashmir not to allow themselves to be used for staging protest and stone pelting, J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that they are best suited for places like food camps, IITs
Narendra Modi will use his mandate to save the lives and future of children of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti said.
As all efforts of the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government to bring normalcy in the Valley so far have gone to vain, the government is mulling bringing separatists back to the talking table.
The Jammu and Kashmir government headed by Mehbooba Mufti is planning to take action against 400 local leaders who are fuelling protests in the Kashmir valley.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today where she is expected to discuss the prevailing situation in the state.
As the Kashmir Valley remained on the boil with one more civilian getting killed in firing by security forces, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will fly to New Delhi for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday lost her cool during a press conference she was addressing jointly with Home Minister Rajnath Singh when journalists grilled her on her role in dealing with
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is in Kashmir on a two-day visit, today informed that an all-party delegation will be sent to Kashmir for holding talks on how to end problems in the troubled state.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today held a handful of people responsible for creating unrest in the valley as, she said, 95 per cent of people were peace-loving and should not be punished
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that guns cannot get justice and then went on to blame the ‘national leadership’ for all the problems the border state is facing today.
Pitching for an early start to a dialogue process with people of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seize the opportunity created by the unrest to
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the Home Minister and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
A hitherto-unknown group of stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir has threatened girls against riding two-wheelers or they would be set on fire. The threat by ‘Sangbaaz (stone-pelters) Association Jammu and Kashmir’ was made in a
Weeks after violence took over Jammu and Kashmir following the encounter of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani, the Deputy Chief Minister of the state Nirmal Singh today said the situation would have been different if
Claiming that security forces were unaware of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani's presence at the scene of the July 8 encounter, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that government could have made
J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's visit to this border district today to meet families left grieving by the latest spurt in violence was marked by hugs, tears and a few words of sympathy for a
Mehbooba Mufti government today transferred two senior police officers from South Kashmir range, which was worst hit by violence following killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.
J&K Finance Minister Haseeb Drabus wife Roohi Nazki has termed the happenings in the Valley over the last 14 days ‘immoral, unethical, tragic and wrong’ and asked the ruling establishment to either stop the civilians killing in the Valley or step dow
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has called an all-party meeting in Srinagar today to discuss the prevailing law and order situation in the valley and measures to be taken to restore peace and normalcy.
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