The encounter in Pampore, Kashmir continued for the third day after a group of terrorists entered a government building. A police officer said that one of the terrorists is believed to be killed and forces have used 50 rockets, machines guns and explosives in efforts to kill or flush out[Read More…]
Curfew was re-imposed in Srinagar after 12-year-old Junaid Ahmad succumbed to pellet injuries. The boy was killed after security forces fired pellet guns at protesters in Srinagar on Saturday evening, sparking widespread anger in the city and prompting authorities to impose a curfew As per the police, security forces fired[Read More…]
Three militants were killed in an attack on the army camp in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district during early hours Thursday. Two attacks were carried out at the camp located at Langate in Handwara region and heavy gunfire was exchanged. The first exchange lasted for around 20 minutes, after which search operations[Read More…]
An Indian Express report has cited eyewitness accounts of surgical strikes carried out by the army. Providing graphic accounts of the strikes, the report describes how bodies of those killed in clashes before dawn on September 29 were loaded onto trucks for secret burials. The accounts provided by them confirm[Read More…]
Shutdown for the 83rd day, Kashmir witnesses yet another ‘normal’ day. Torn between two extremes, the killing fields of Kashmir mask those of Palestine. Home to one of the largest military occupation in the world, the valley has witnessed widespread unrest and violence in the wake of encounter of Burhan[Read More…]
The Indian Army conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the Director General Military Operations (DGMO) said in a press conference on Thursday. The strikes were carried out to prevent Pakistani terrorists who had “positioned themselves at launch pads with the aim to carry out[Read More…]
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi has described Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s address to the UN as a ‘litany of falsehoods’ and ‘a travesty of facts and history’. She added that Jammu and Kashmir “never was and can never be an integral part of India. Maleeha[Read More…]
It has been more than two-weeks since Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist was arrested under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act on September 15. Ironically, the campaigner who is programme coordinator at Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society and chairperson at Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) has been[Read More…]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today hit out at Pakistan holding it accountable for nurturing terrorism on its land. Swaraj also took up the issue of human rights violations in Balochistan. Swaraj appealed to the General Assembly[Read More…]
Kashmir breathed a sigh of relief as curfew was lifted on Sunday from all parts of the state. After 79 days of shutdown, the valley saw a heavy rush of people in the markets. Shops and business establishments which had remained closed for 79-days due to separatist call for shut[Read More…]
With rising tensions among India and Pakistan over the recent attack in Uri, the Indus Water Treaty has come under strain. The centre had hinted towards revisiting the treaty and now J&K’s deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday said the state will fully support whatever decision is taken by[Read More…]
Curfew was re-imposed in Handwara on Saturday, making it the 78th day of shutdown in the valley. After Friday witnessed shutdown on account of congregational prayers, the death of 19-year-old Waseem Ahmad aggravated the situation. As reported by Greater Kashmir, the youth was killed after forces fired at him while[Read More…]
The Jammu and Kashmir High court while rejecting a plea seeking ban on use of pellet guns in controlling street protests in Kashmir Valley, cited the ground situation and observed that as long as there is violence by unruly mobs, use of force is inevitable. A bench of Justices Paul[Read More…]
Thousands of enthusiastic youngsters turned up for a recruitment drive in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, despite the separatists asking youth in Jammu and Kashmir to not join the forces. Candidates travelled hundreds of kilometers to Anantnag as 2,200 candidates participated in the recruitment rally, waiting in queues to present their[Read More…]
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday stressed that the government will take steps to ensure there will be no such incidents as Uri attack in which 18 Indian soldiers died. The minister added that if required there can be a knee-jerk reaction to the attack believed to be carried out[Read More…]
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Bharat Solanki said that the the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would not have worsened if Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was the Prime Minister. Solanki slammed the PDP-BJP led coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir for the rise in Pakistan sponsored terror attacks in that[Read More…]
Mudassar Yusuf, a student at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been expelled for posting an objectionable comment on Facebook after the Uri terror attack which left 18 soldiers dead. The vice-chancellor of the university took the decision to expel the student after personally probing the matter. He termed his post as[Read More…]
Two successful breaches one at the Line of Control (LoC) at Uri and second the perimeter of the Army base that saw the fencing wire being cut, resulted in the Uri attack. Agencies are probing the two-point breach that helped suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen access heavily-guarded camp and execute one of the deadliest[Read More…]
Sunday witnessed an attack by four ‘fidayeen’ militants on an Indian army brigade headquarters near the de factor border with Pakistan, in Kashmir’s Uri district. 17 soldiers and four militants were killed in the attack. Termed as the most deadly attack in the northern region of Kashmir since 2014, the[Read More…]
Another death in Kashmir has fanned the silent anger of its populace, with hundreds gathering for the funeral of 15-year-old Momin Altaf. After being crippled by unrest for more than two months now, the people of valley are still not ready to give up the series of protests that broke[Read More…]
India rejected United Nations Human Rights Council’s demand to visit the troubled valley of Kashmir on Wednesday. This move comes as a blow to India’s diplomatic counter-maneuvering, and marks a success for Pakistan’s efforts to “internationalising” the Kashmir conflict. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was awaiting[Read More…]
A man was killed and several people were injured in firing as protesters clashed with security forces on Tuesday morning in Bandipore, less than 70 km from Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar. The death toll in violent clashes in the state since July has now reached 80. With complete curfew[Read More…]
Following the tense law and order situation in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered shutdown of internet services of all telecom networks and also mobile communications as a precautionary measure. The state government took a review of the of the prevailing law and order situation in the[Read More…]
Speaking on the recent incidents of unrest in Kashmir, home minister Rajnath Singh directed security forces to come down heavily on those instigating violence and choreographing stone pelting mobs in Kashmir. The directive to bring normalcy in the state was issued by him while chairing a high-level meeting in Delhi which[Read More…]
An encounter between militants and security forces in Poonch is still underway as fresh exchange of fire was reported between the two sides at the mini secretariat building Monday morning. According to updates, some militants are apparently present inside the building and have started firing at intermittent intervals since the early hours[Read More…]