Tag: Kashmir Conflict


  • โ€œUN experts raised concerns over abuses in Kashmir, including arbitrary detention of journalists, alleged custodial killings, and a broader pattern of systematic infringements of fundamental rights used against the local population.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized the Indian authorities for intensified crackdown on activists, journalists, and other critics of the government…

  • IGP said the owner of the house, where a militant was killed, and his family members misled the government forces team by saying that no militant was hiding in their house. SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday said that action under โ€œterror lawโ€ will be taken against the owner and the family…

  • โ€œJDA did not spare even a 90-year-old Chacha in Jammu and rendered him homeless. This is the development of Gujjars and Bakerwals that BJP is claiming.โ€ย  SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu Development Authority has come under severe criticism for demolishing the homes of several Gujjar and Bakarwal families in the Roopnagar area of the Jammu district.…

  • โ€œPeople involved in disturbing the โ€˜prevailing peaceful atmosphereโ€™ should be dealt strictly under law. Stringent action shall be taken against elements who โ€˜misuseโ€™ social media platforms for โ€˜inciting violenceโ€™.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” Inspector General Police, Kashmir Vijay Kumar Tuesday instructed the District Senior Superintendents of Police to intensify the anti-militancy operations in their respective areas and…

  • Police said one among the slain militants, Imad Muzaffar Wani, was involved in attacks on government forces. SRINAGAR โ€” Two militants were killed in an overnight military operation in Hassanpora village of South Kashmirโ€™s Kulgam district on Sunday afternoon, the police said. The military operation was launched after the joint teams of the Jammu and…

  • Anjuman Auqaf expresses regret, calls it โ€˜Dictatorshipโ€™. SRINAGAR โ€” As the Jammu and Kashmir administration continues to disallow congregational Friday prayers in historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, Anjuman Auqaf Friday expressed deep sorrow and regret over the fact that even on the first Jummat-ul-Mubarak of the year 2022, the authorities, while demonstrating their โ€œdictatorship and…

  • That Bus to Bandipora

    The neighbour who brought the news was a mute person. Through his gestures, he explained how he witnessed the chilling episode. Like every other morning, Afzal woke up late again. His father, Majeed, disliked this habit and always advised him to wake up early. His mother came into his room and told him that his…

  • 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…

  • โ€œAs such, we affirm their claims that Dr. Varmaโ€™s work has produced extraordinary harm to the subjects of her research and to the anti-occupation struggles of Kashmiris, something that compounds other ongoing violence and trauma caused by the Indian settler state.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” University of California San Diegoโ€™s Critical Gender Studies Program has disaffiliated from…