Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
@ahmedalifayyaz • 63,290 subscribers
J&K's most-watched 'X' account. Independent. Full-time, professional journalist since 1993. @StateIVLP alumnus. Ex J&K Bureau Chief/Sr. Asst Editor @the_hindu.
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VANDE BHARAT: At 100 kmph on the world's highest railway bridge The Vande Bharat train has, for the first time, operated at a speed of nearly 100 kmph on the world’s highest railway bridge over the Chenab River, following the Railway Ministry’s approval to increase the maximum permissible speed on the Katra-Banihal rail section. The approval allows trains to run at speeds of up to 100 kmph on the 111-kilometre-long new broad gauge rail section between Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra and Banihal under the Jammu Division of Northern Railway. Earlier, the permissible speed was 85 kmph on the Katra-Sangaldan section and 75 kmph on the Sangaldan-Banihal section. With this approval, this special train is expected to cover the travel time between J&K's capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar in around three and a half hours.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz109,966 views • 29 days ago
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's death on 8 September 1982 at his residence, 10 Maulana Azad Road, in Srinagar brought a pall of gloom over the entire Kashmir Valley. While the Valley mourned his death for several days, over 10 lakh (1 million) Kashmiris participated in his historic funeral procession on the 10th of September. It took the cortege about 10 hours to reach his burial place at Hazratbal. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi walked some distance with the procession in the morning. She reached Hazratbal in a Shikara in the evening along with her spiritual guru Dhirendra Brahmachari and former Jammu & Kashmir governor LK Jha to attend Sheikh's last rites. Lt General SP Malhotra, army commander, Northern Command, led the procession and the muffled drums played the funeral march. The body of the Sheikh was buried under tonnes of flowers showered on it all along the route. The streets of Srinagar awoke early to the cries of mourners. Huge throngs had taken a vantage points for a last glimpse of their beloved leader. The 12-km route was packed with people sitting on rooftops, trees and electric poles long before the procession had started from Polo Ground where his body had lain in state for over 24 hours. Accompanying the procession were large number of dignitaries including Union home minister PC Sethi, law minister Jagan Nath Kaushal, Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar, governors and chief ministers including the governor of Jammu & Kashmir BK Nehru, large number of members of Parliament, Opposition leaders including Chandra Shekhar of Janata Party, Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Bharatiya Janata Party, HN Bahuguna, Chanderjeet Yadav, foreign diplomats, and large number of his friends and associates.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz39,975 views • 11 days ago
![HISTORY IN THE MAKING: Finally a dream comes true. Direct, seamless, hassle-free travel [Dep: 1345, Arr: 1805] of 4 hours and 20 minutes by Vande Bharat from Jammu to Srinagar today. With some brief open air dots, it's virtually a 110 km long tunnel under the Pir Panjal mountain between Katra and Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir. Over the world's tallest raiway bridge. Through the country's longest transportation tunnel and the longest cable stayed bridge. All trains packed to capacity with over 80% of the passengers as tourists.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2052414557495460096/ext_tw_video_thumb/2052414019152318464/pu/img/nRwSDW2c22Zqfvxk.jpg)
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: Finally a dream comes true. Direct, seamless, hassle-free travel [Dep: 1345, Arr: 1805] of 4 hours and 20 minutes by Vande Bharat from Jammu to Srinagar today. With some brief open air dots, it's virtually a 110 km long tunnel under the Pir Panjal mountain between Katra and Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir. Over the world's tallest raiway bridge. Through the country's longest transportation tunnel and the longest cable stayed bridge. All trains packed to capacity with over 80% of the passengers as tourists.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz239,393 views • 4 months ago
Srinagar fully sold out. This time not for cheap. No room available at any hotel, any houseboat. Hotels, houseboats, Shikaras, taxis... all have raised rates 500% to 1000%. The 1.5 km drive from Dalgate to Nehru Park is now a 40-minute drive due to permanent traffic jam, huge tourist rush and the successive Governments' lack of will to widen Boulevard to a 4-lane road.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz77,320 views • 3 months ago
BREAKING HERE As a big boon to the people of Kashmir, as also to the tourists, traders and other commuters, MORTHINDIA NHAI will be throwing open the Gallandar (Pampore)-Narbal section of the Srinagar Ring Road for traffic in a few days-- bypassing all towns and markets, including Srinagar and reducing the current travel time of 50-60 minutes to just 25 minutes for the people driving south to north and vice versa. Traffic to and from Uri, Baramulla, Sopore, Gulmarg, Kupwara, Jammu, Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian, Tral, Pulwama and Pampore will now pass hassle-free and without any jamming through Suthsu, Chadoura, Panzan, Ichigam, Budgam, Daharmuna Soibug and Narbal. Its first announcement was made in 2009 when Mr Omar Abdullah was the Chief Minister and Dr Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister of India. However, major executions and its completion happened during the time of Narendra Modi as PMO India and Nitin Gadkari as the Union Minister of Roads, Transport and Highways. Thanks and congratulations to all who made it possible. Now please put the work of the Narbal-Manigam (Ganderbal) section on fast track.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz29,718 views • 1 month ago
NC's rebel MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi holds Chief Minister's Advisor Nasir Sogami responsible for most of the wrongs in National Conference and its Government in Jammu and Kashmir. According to him, none other than Nasir was responsible for Omar Abdullah's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 in North Kashmir and the same was the party's conclusion. He said that Chief Minister handled the Reservation file nonchalantly but got the file for his Advisor's Cabinet status approved with "begging" from the Union Home Minister. Aga also alleged that Nasir clandestinely played a sectarian card as he himself wanted to be NC's candidate after Omar Abdullah's resignation in the Budgam Assembly by-elections in November 2025. Watch the full 103-minute SPECIAL PODCAST exclusively on TALKISTAN (YouTube):
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz19,649 views • 20 days ago
"I was the senior most IAS officer in J&K Secretariat. After Iqbal Khandey's resignation, it was my right to become Chief Secretary. But I was deprived of my right and Chief Minister Mufti Sahab did not redress my grievance", says ex-IAS officer, former Advisor to Governor, former Chief Information Commissioner J&K, Khurshid Ahmed Ganai in "Kashmir Podcast With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Watch the full podcast here on TALKISTAN (YouTube):
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz31,353 views • 2 months ago
![Enjoyed the first post-2018 media community interaction, followed by dinner, with the J&K PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti at Hotel Lalit Srinagar The LaLiT Hotels, Palaces & Resorts tonight. It proved an opportunity to meet and interact with some of our longtime colleagues as we have met rarely after 2019. This was my first as I missed her previous one because of being in Jammu. Thank you Madam for remembering and inviting to this grand feast on occasion of your completing 30 years in politics. Mehbooba ji in her brief speech mentioned my 1994 colleagues of Kashmir Times-- photographer Abdul Qayoom and bureau chief Zahoor Malik as also myself as Kashmir bureau chief of Daily Excelsior in 1995, undoubtedly our most difficult times. Later, in a conversation with me she went nostalgic when she recollected her first interview with me as the Congress MLA of Bijbehara for Daily Excelsior. She recollected and narrated when she proposed and stressed on the opening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road [I remember she said Srinagar-Rawalpindi Road] in the same interview in 1997. She recollected how Mufti Sahab got angry over her statement, saying that it would not be tolerated by Delhi. Next day I published the full interview which created ripples.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2092677421548101717/amplify_video_thumb/2092677161018961920/img/hnRtSfufkWMax-5c.jpg)
Enjoyed the first post-2018 media community interaction, followed by dinner, with the J&K PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti at Hotel Lalit Srinagar The LaLiT Hotels, Palaces & Resorts tonight. It proved an opportunity to meet and interact with some of our longtime colleagues as we have met rarely after 2019. This was my first as I missed her previous one because of being in Jammu. Thank you Madam for remembering and inviting to this grand feast on occasion of your completing 30 years in politics. Mehbooba ji in her brief speech mentioned my 1994 colleagues of Kashmir Times-- photographer Abdul Qayoom and bureau chief Zahoor Malik as also myself as Kashmir bureau chief of Daily Excelsior in 1995, undoubtedly our most difficult times. Later, in a conversation with me she went nostalgic when she recollected her first interview with me as the Congress MLA of Bijbehara for Daily Excelsior. She recollected and narrated when she proposed and stressed on the opening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road [I remember she said Srinagar-Rawalpindi Road] in the same interview in 1997. She recollected how Mufti Sahab got angry over her statement, saying that it would not be tolerated by Delhi. Next day I published the full interview which created ripples.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz11,977 views • 23 days ago
Lovely. Very bold! But also very serious. Deserves a clarification from the concerned.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz22,036 views • 1 month ago
On his return from Germany, National Conference's rebel MP from Central Kashmir Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi gets a warm reception from his supporters in his hometown of Budgam. Their only slogans..."Ruhullah Ruhullah". In his address to the gathering, Aga Ruhullah revealed that when he was asked (by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Working Committee meeting of JKNC ) to resign and contest as MLA from Budgam, he lost no time to offer his resignation. "I just remained silent (in the Budgam by-election campaign and the result is before you. Don't compel me to campaign against you in future", Aga Ruhullah challenged the Chief Minister and the NC leadership.
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz74,573 views • 10 months ago
"Muslims are 14% of the Indian population but we get less than 5% share in government jobs. Even in J&K, where 65% of the population lives in Kashmir, the Valley gets less than 30% share in the J&K Administrative Services", says retired bureaucrat, former Advisor to Governor and former Chief Information Commissioner Khurshid Ahmed Ganai. Watch the full unfiltered podcast of 94 minutes with Khurshid Ahmed Ganai. Only on TALKISTAN (YouTube):
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz23,495 views • 2 months ago
Ex-bureaucrat Khurshid Ahmed Ganai says that the National Conference Government in Jammu and Kashmir must boldly and immediately remove the "injustice to Open Merit candidates" which has crippled their prospects in Government jobs and scholarship, particularly in their entry to the J&K Administrative Services. Reappropriation of justice is not injustice to any category, says he. Watch the full unfiltered podcast with Khurshid Ahmed Ganai on TALKISTAN here:
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz22,094 views • 2 months ago
With the Indian national flag fluttering on his bicycle, this lonely 29-year-old cyclist Parvaiz Ahmad Lachi from Divar Lolab in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district, on Tuesday set out on a 9-month bicycle journey to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah pilgrimage. He is seen cycling his spiritual odyssey without any fear, without any security on Kashmir’s Baramulla highway-- on way to Jammu and further to Delhi. He is reportedly going to pass through 12 countries and has secured visas for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with a target to cross into Kazakhstan by September 1, 2026. However, it's not immediately clear if he is also planning to travel with the Indian tricolor through Pakistan and Afghanistan. And our Z-plus leaders in Kashmir call it "Qabristan Ki Khamoshi" (silence of the graveyard), claiming that there's nobody to shoulder the Indian flag in Kashmir! Just mention this and they will label you "an Indian propagandist".
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz12,670 views • 1 month ago
"Nasir Sogami, Showkat Mir, Sagars wanted me out. They all joined hands and plotted my ouster from the party I served with my blood and sweat for 60 years. They planted canards against me. Unfortunately, members of the Sheikh family are credulists. They enjoy listening to lies. They don't cross-check the things put into their ears; not ready to listen to the truth": says National Conference's two-time MLA Mohammad Syed Akhoon in a 91-minute long podcast of never-before revelations on TALKISTAN. Premiering at 8:00 PM on Saturday, 15 August. SUBSCRIBE TO TALKISTAN HERE:
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz11,390 views • 1 month ago
![Three professors of Government Degree College Sopore, including Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, were dismissed from service on 27 February 1986 when GM Shah was Chief Minister. Wasn't he responsible for starting the rather repressive era of the termination of services of the Government employees which was subsequently taken to heights by Governor Jagmohan and several CMs/Governors? Watch the full podcast ([Part-3] with Ghulam Mohammad Shah's son Muzaffar Shah on TALKISTAN. Here's the link:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2069803054300553456/amplify_video_thumb/2069802396394442752/img/hA6_sVs_QDajJ2tl.jpg)
Three professors of Government Degree College Sopore, including Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, were dismissed from service on 27 February 1986 when GM Shah was Chief Minister. Wasn't he responsible for starting the rather repressive era of the termination of services of the Government employees which was subsequently taken to heights by Governor Jagmohan and several CMs/Governors? Watch the full podcast ([Part-3] with Ghulam Mohammad Shah's son Muzaffar Shah on TALKISTAN. Here's the link:
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz20,807 views • 2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE REVELATION ONLY ON TALKISTAN CIA undercover men were present in Kashmir when the separatist insurgency broke out in January 1990. Dan Mozena, Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, entered the Valley secretly and masqueraded as a foreign journalist. He was among dozens of the foreign mediapersons detained at Srinagar's Broadway Hotel. Neither did he disclose his identity as a US diplomat nor did the US embassy seek his release. Watch a 94-minute podcast of harrowing details of the outbreak of militancy with the former DIG of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Israr Khan. Premiering on TALKISTAN at 8:00 PM tomorrow (Saturday, 25 July 2026):
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz14,604 views • 1 month ago