Tag: Conflict


  • Police said the โ€œmilitant moduleโ€ was working at the behest of Dr Asif Maqbool Dar and Sajjad Gul, both Kashmiris, presently living in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, respectively. SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday claimed to have arrested two militants and two โ€œOver Ground Workersโ€ in Kashmirโ€™s capital city Srinagar. The arrested…

  • โ€œForce, repression, propaganda and underhandedness as a state policy being pursued in J&K, in the long run, will only be counterproductive and fatal.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Wednesday said that 2021 was one more year lost to killings, bloodshed and violence in J&K, which it said, was a result of the…

  • SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday claimed to have killed three militants in a military operation in south Kashmirโ€™s Pulwama district, including an IEDโ€™s mastermind. In a statement, a police spokesperson said that acting on โ€œspecific inputโ€ regarding the presence of militants in Chandgam village of Pulwama district, a joint cordon and…

  • The slain commander was involved in the killings of civilians in the name of informers, police said. SRINAGAR โ€” Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday claimed to have killed two militants in two separate military operations in the outskirts of Srinagar city. Both the military operations were launched in the Shalimar area of the capital…

  • โ€œThe protesters also raised slogans for the restoration of the erstwhile stateโ€™s special status, and also denounced the โ€˜highhandednessโ€™ of police and administration.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” Despite the Jammu and Kashmir administrationโ€™s attempts to scuttle the protest demonstration of the Peopleโ€™s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) against the Delimitation Commissionโ€™s draft proposal, two constituents of the…

  • โ€œEarlier, they used to target policemen involved in anti-militancy operations. Now everyone is targeted.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir police said that it has killed 171 militants in about 88 military operations in 2021 across the Kashmir valley. The slain militants include 151 local militants and 20 foreigners. A police official said that 82…

  • โ€˜People in Kashmir are living in distress, they are fearful, have restricted certain activities and have stopped talking about particular things due to the fear of getting booked under draconian laws.โ€™ SRINAGAR โ€” On November 22, a prominent human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, was arrested after National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided and searched his home…

  • “Two AK series rifles recovered from militants slain in Tral, and AK series rifles, 4 AK magazines, and 32 rounds recovered from militants slain in Shopian operation.” SRINAGAR โ€” Four militants have been killed in two separate military operations in southern Kashmir valley on Saturday. Two militants were killed in a military operation by government…

  • A woman worshipper waited outside the southern gate of Kashmir’s largest Masjid as she looked at the shut door through the wrought-metallic railing. She looked haplessly with eyes swollen in tears before returning back. SRINAGAR โ€” A women worshipper waited outside the southern gate of the Srinagarโ€™s Jamia Masjid on Friday as she looked at…

  • Zainab, the nine-year-old daughter of slain Rauf, asked, โ€œWill my father never come back?โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” A pall of gloom has descended upon Mirjanpora locality of Downtown Srinagar, a day after Rauf Ahmadโ€”a property dealerโ€”was shot dead by unknown gunmen outside his home. Rauf had gone out to buy groceries when he was fired upon…