Srinagar, June 15: Thousands of mourners on Friday attended the funeral of senior journalist and Editor-in-Chief of English daily “Rising Kashmir” Shujaat Bukhari at his ancestral hometown of Kreeri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Three motorcycle-borne gunmen killed Bukhari and two of his security guards as he boarded his car in the Press Enclave in […]
Archives for June 15, 2018
UN calls for int’l probe into HR violations in Kashmir; World body releases first-ever rights report on Kashmir
Geneva, June 14 (Web Desk): The United Nations in its first-ever human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir called for an urgent need to address past and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and deliver justice for all people in Kashmir, who, it said, for seven decades have suffered a conflict that has claimed or […]
Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari, two guards shot dead in Srinagar
“Bukhari was attacked when he had just stepped out of his car outside his office at Press Colony in Srinagar” Srinagar, Jun 14: Renowned Kashmiri journalist and Daily Rising Kashmir chief editor Shujaat Bukhari and his two personal security officers (PSOs) were shot dead by unknown attackers outside his office in Srinagar on Thursday evening. […]