Jammu and Kashmir's Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today said that there is a need to remind the elderly and the younger generations about how Pakistan is killing our people and trying to divide us by disrupting communal harmony. https://www.youtube.co…

Kamal Arora is perhaps the only person in this lot who has carried sustained political influence across over two decades in his electoral constituency Bishnah, in Jammu district.

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