Srinagar: A youth suffered a head injury after being chased by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in Kangan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday. The incident triggered massive protests in the area. Reports said a youth, identified as Gowhar Ahmad Rather, was part of a group that had assembled on a roadside in […]
Archives for April 2, 2018
Widespread condemnation of Kashmir(IOK) killings in Pakistan
Islamabad, April 02: In Pakistan, the killings of seventeen youth in Islamabad and Shopian districts of Kashmir, yesterday, were condemned by all state and non-state organizations. According to Pakistani Media, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday that India was incapable of silencing Kashmir. He expressed deep sorrow over the recent loss of life […]
At least 20 injured in fresh clashes in south Kashmir parts
Srinagar:At least twenty protesters were injured in fresh clashes in Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag districts of south Kashmir on Monday. Reports and witnesses said that youth angered over yesterday’s killings threw rocks at the forces deployed there. The forces responded with fired pellets and tear gas to disperse the protesters, triggering further clashes. Reports said […]
Day of death in south Kashmir: 20 killed
IRFAN AMIN MALIK / KHALID GUL Shopian/ Anantnag: The government forces shot dead thirteen militants in three different gun fights in the Shopian and Anantnag districts of the south in the early morning of Sunday, setting off a wave of anger in many parts of the Kashmir valley. The forces shot dead three protestors seeking […]
Don’t expect Kashmiris to buy our narrative: Sanjiv Bhatt on Shopian civilian killings
Srinagar: Raising questions over use of bullets on protestors in Kashmir, a police officer who took on Narendra Modi government over 2002 Gujarat riots, on Monday drew comparisons between crowd control measures in the Valley and rest of India. Taking to Twitter, the 1988 batch Indian Police Officer Sanjiv Bhatt wrote: “Four civilians killed when […]
Shopian mayhem: Our sacrifice not wasted, we saved our trapped brothers, say injured at SMHS hospital
ZEHRU NISSA/ UBEER NAQUSHBANDI Shopian: Masooma had just awakened from her sleep and had begun to settle into a usual morning routine of preparing breakfast for her family. Her seventeen-year-old son, Adil Rasool, was still asleep in his room. Outside their home, there was nothing unique about the early morning silence of the Gopalpora village […]
Shopian carnage: Deadly Sunday began with soldiers’ midnight knock at the door
Srinagar: It all began with a knock by soldiers two hours past midnight at the door of Mushtaq Ahmad Thakur’s home in remote Dragad-Sugan village. When Thakur, 36, father of a twins aged 10 came out, the family was shocked as soldiers asked him to accompany then disregarding pleas of his aged parents. According to […]
Injured protesters fill Kashmir hospitals; most with pellet eye injury
Srinagar: Many with pellet wounds in the eyes may lose sight, says surgeon who operated on 28 in Srinagar. Over 50 youths, mostly with eye injuries, sustained in pellet shots fired by security forces on protesters were admitted to Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital on Sunday. The youths in blindfolds were brought in […]
Indian forces kill 17, injure more than 100 in Kashmir; protest erupt, restriction in Srinagar
Srinagar: In south Kashmir, the Indian troops in their anti-rebel operations killed 17 youth and injured as many as 100 in Shopian and Islamabad districts in a single day, today. The youth were killed during anti rebel operations, launched by Indian forces at Dagdard and Kachdoora areas of the two districts in South Kashmir. The […]
South Kashmir mayhem: more deaths, toll mounts to 17
Srinagar: The death toll of slain youth by Indian forces’ actions in south Kashmir’s Shopian and Islamabad districts on Sunday has mounted to 17 after three more youth died due to pellet and bullets. The first civilian killed was identified as Iqbal Butt, of Khasipora Shopian. Reports said that Iqbal had received bullet injury in […]
