The NIA and state security agencies have so far arrested 68 supporters of dreaded terror outfit ISIS in various parts of the country, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday . “The National Investigation Agency and state security agencies have so far arrested 68 ISIS supporters/sympathisers,” Minister of State for Home[Read More…]
A BSF head constable, who was seriously injured in heavy-cross border firing by Pakistan Army in the Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, lost his life on Monday morning. Three BSF personnel were critically injured. “Last night in heavy shelling from Pakistan side along the LoC in Rajouri area, four[Read More…]
More than one lakh students are taking secondary exams in Kashmir on Monday despite not being able to attend school for nearly four months. “Over 45,000 students are appearing for class 12th exams beginning at 11am at 484 centers today while over 55,000 students are appearing for class 10th exam[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday ordered reopening of schools in the border areas of Jammu from Tuesday that were closed following the increasing tension between India and Pakistan post September 29 surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC). At least 174 schools along Indo-Pak border areas were closed[Read More…]
Dispel the perception that Kashmir and Kashmiris are “mere tools to be used for electoral purposes”, a group led by former Union minister Yashwant Sinha has recommended in a report days after visiting the trouble-torn Valley. “Kashmiris believe that today Indian politics has taken such a turn that there is[Read More…]
The Indian Army said a soldier was killed and his body mutilated by terrorists in an encounter in Machhal sector of Kupwara district, near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu Kashmir on Friday evening. A terrorist was also killed in the encounter. Army warned of an “appropriate response” “In[Read More…]
After a night of rest, shelling was resumed by the Pakistani at various places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pallanwala, Sunderwani and Nowshera sectors on Friday morning. As per the latest reports a girl was injured in the shelling. A Defence Ministry spokesperson Lt Colonel Manish Mehta confirmed[Read More…]
If curfew and shut down were not enough, the valley faces another problem- burning of schools. A total of 19 schools have been burned till now and over the past three-and-a-half months, at least one school in each of Kashmir Valley’s 10 districts have either been burnt or suffered damages[Read More…]
In a memorandum to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, London-based representatives of political parties in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have urged the Pakistani government to reconsider policies on Kashmir and stop the export of extremism, terrorism. “(We) Note with regret that despite our suffering and great human and economic loss[Read More…]
During early hours of Monday morning Pakistani rangers carried out unprovoked firing and shelling from Suchetgarh sector in R S Pura to Pargwal in Akhnoor sector along the International Border. In the firing, a BSF head constable was killed and an ASI was among the three injured. Two women were[Read More…]
A Pakistani spy has been arrested from Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Friday for giving important information regarding deployment and movement of security forces to Pakistan. Amongst his possession, two Pakistani SIM cards and a map showing deployment of security forces were recovered. The SSP Samba, Joginder Singh said, “Based[Read More…]
Pakistan again violated ceasefire along the International Border (IB) in the RS Pura sector of Jammu district on Friday night. “Small arms bursts are being fired by Pak Rangers in Abdullian village in the Suchetgarh sector in RS Pura,” said the deputy commissioner Simrandeep Singh. He also said the situation is being monitored for[Read More…]
Twelve officials have been sacked by the Jammu and Kashmir government on allegations of carrying out “anti-national activities” for having allegedly played a role in fuelling the unrest in the state. Also, as reported by NDTV, several others officers are being watched closely. The 12 officials were sacked on Wednesday[Read More…]
Another ceasefire violation was reported along the LoC in Naushera sector of Rajouri district late Monday night. Pakistani troops fired from small arms and shelled mortar bombs on forward posts as Indian forces retaliated. “There was ceasefire violation by Pak troops along the LoC in Naushera sector of Rajouri district”, a defence[Read More…]
Five service rifles were snatched away by separatist guerrillas from TV tower guards in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said on Monday. According to the police the militants attacked the guards posted at a Low Power Transmitter station of public service broadcaster Doordarshan in Dalvash village late Sunday night. As reported[Read More…]
The Jammu and Kashmir Criminal Investigation Department (CID), is probing the possibility of Pakistan Intelligence Agency receiving sensitive information across the Line of Control (LoC) through the use of over 150 smuggled pigeons. The CID is investigating a case in which 153 pigeons were seized by the police that were[Read More…]
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…]
