Budgam

Uprooted from her home in Kolkata, Sakina was sent to live far away in Pakharpora, a small village in the Budgam district of the Kashmir valley.

Plight of young brides in Kashmir, sold to older strangers for a pittance 2012

Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir hoisted National Flag at Budgam on 61st Republic Day function here today and took salute on the march past presented by CRPF, JK Police, IRP, Armed Police, and contingents of School Children.

JK lone woman Minister unfurls Indian National Flag at Pulwama in Kashmir 2010

The arson and violence was particularly bad in two towns close to the state capital Srinagar – Tangmarg and Budgam, where a school run by a Christian missionary was attacked and torched.

Kashmir riots over Qur'an 'burning' leave 13 dead Maseeh Rahman in Delhi 2010

The attack on the Christian-run school in Budgam was unprecedented too.

Kashmir riots over Qur'an 'burning' leave 13 dead Maseeh Rahman in Delhi 2010

  Officials say several people were killed when police fired on hundreds of Muslim protesters who set fire to a Christian missionary school and some government buildings in Tangmarg and Budgam districts in Indian Kashmir.

14 People Killed in Indian Kashmir in Deadliest Violence for Months 2010

Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir hoisted National Flag at Budgam on 61st Republic Day function here today and took salute on the march past presented by CRPF, JK Police, IRP, Armed Police, and contingents of School Children.

JK lone woman Minister unfurls Indian National Flag at Pulwama in Kashmir 2010

  Officials say several people were killed when police fired on hundreds of Muslim protesters who set fire to a Christian missionary school and some government buildings in Tangmarg and Budgam districts in Indian Kashmir.

14 People Killed in Indian Kashmir in Deadliest Violence for Months 2010

The event was organized by Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in the lawns of the ancestral house owned by Late Moti Lal Saqi, in Budgam district, about 34 Km away from Srinagar City.

Moti Lal Saqi remembered on his 10th Anniversary at his home town in Kashmir 2009

He said, “The deliberate attack on the sikh community yesterday at Rangrath in Budgam in Kashmir, the wholesale migration of all non-muslims from Kashmir are the two glaring instances which serve to establish that Kashmiri communalists and separatists do not want any non-Muslim in Kashmir and that they want a system which is exclusive in nature and character.”

���Nizam-e-Muztafa (Islamic Adminstration) is very much in J&K���: BJP 2009

It has 15 stations and connects Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama, Srinagar, Budgam and Baramulla districts.www. scoopnews.in

JK CM reiterated importance of Centre-State internal dialogue to resolve J&K issues once for all 2009