Pragaash

• J&K Grand Mufti, who said music was 'unIslamic', seen enjoying songs

  A video showing Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir Bashiruddin Ahmad enjoying music, an act he termed as forbidden in Islam, went viral yesterday, drawing sharp reactions online.

• Kashmiri human rights group threatens Grand Mufti with lawsuit

  A Kashmiri human rights group on Thursday said they would file a case against Kashmir's Grand Mufti for issuing fatwas which project the state in "bad light" internationally.

• Blog: 'Music omnipresent in Kashmir, Pragaash must continue'

  When I first heard the name of the rock band Pragaash, or the first ray of sunlight, I smiled to myself and thought how it was such a beautiful coincidence that our names have the same meaning and that we have the same purpose - to express ourselves through music.

• Three arrested for online threats to Kashmir's girl band Pragaash

  A spate of online abuses against Kashmir's only girl rock band Pragaash, which apparently forced the members to call it quits, has got the police acting. Three people were arrested on Wednesday night from different parts of Kashmir for allegedly threatening the girls.

• Two men arrested for allegedly abusing members of Kashmir's all-girls rock band online

  Two men, who had allegedly attacked the members of Kashmir's all-girl band online, have been arrested. Both the men were arrested from south Kashmir, police said.

• We've quit as Grand Mufti said it was un-Islamic: Kashmir's all-girl band member

  An all-girl rock group from Kashmir has disbanded after receiving hate mail on their Facebook page and a "fatwa" or a religious decree from a senior priest. One member of the group says she will never play the guitar again because "the people of Kashmir are not happy with us."

• Police identify those behind online abuse for Kashmir's all-girls rock band

  Amid reports that the all-girls rock band in Kashmir has decided to quit singing, the police have started a manhunt to arrest those who posted death threats and hate mail on their Facebook page. Sources say the police have filed and FIR in the case and have identified those who posted the abuses.

• Kashmir's all-girl band gets support from chief minister Omar Abdullah: Who said what

  Threatened and pushed into a corner by a fatwa from a cleric and online threats Kashmir's all girl band Pragaash has reportedly decided to quit. However, chief minister Omar Abdullah told NDTV that he supported them and was willing to provide them security if that was the issue. Here are all the reactions on the fatwa issued against the band:

• Singers can't be silenced by morons: Omar Abdullah on all-girl band

  An all-girls band in Kashmir is receiving support from different parts of the country after its members were threatened and abused online, and a local priest issued a fatwa or religious decree, ordering them to stop performing.

• Singers can't be silenced by morons: Omar Abdullah on all-girl band

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has come down heavily on those threatening the three young girls who have formed the Valley's only rock band, Pragaash, and Monday promised police investigations into the threats.

• Omar Abdullah, activists back all-girls Kashmiri rock band

  Activists, filmmakers and others today came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band, which is facing online threats and abuses, with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ordering a police probe and hoping that the talented teenagers will not let themselves be silenced by a "handful of morons".

• Abuses, threats can't silence Kashmir's only girl band

  Music defines them, but abuses and threats are forcing Kashmir's only girl band, Pragaash, to keep a low profile these days. The band's members have been receiving warnings - even rape threats - on the social media ever since they first performed in Srinagar two months ago.