Peerzada Sheikh Muzamil The case against two policemen accused in the killing of 13-year-old Wamiq Farooq in Srinagar in 2010 staggered to a halt with the revocation of Article 370 and the pandemic, but his family has said they will continue their fight. Wamiq Farooq had just topped his Class 6 examination and was set […]
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3 killed in Kashmir encounters
Srinagar: Three militants were killed and another injured in an encounter in the southern district of Pulwama, according to police in Indian-administered Kashmir. The two separate shootings were the first in Indian-administered Kashmir this year. Earlier, three militants were killed in a brief shootout on Friday evening in the Mandoora village of the Tral area. […]
‘A ghost that haunts’: Living with landmines in Kashmir
For those living along Kashmir’s Line of Control, landmines destroy lives and livelihoods By Nawal Ali and Fouziya Tehzeeb One night in December 2000, Mohammad Yaqoob says he was selected by the Indian army for patrol duty along the Line of Control (LoC), the border dividing the Indian and Pakistani-administered regions of Kashmir. Twenty years […]
Indian, Pakistani delegates clash over Kashmir at UN
United Nations, January 30: Delegates of India and Pakistan got into a fresh verbal duel in the UN General Assembly on Thursday, after Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram exposed New Delhi’s human rights abuses in the occupied Kashmir as well as the design of the BJP-RSS extremists against Pakistan. Indian delegate Vidisha Maitra reacted to Ambassador […]
Hope in Kashmir as Modi critic Kamala Harris takes office
SANJAY KUMAR US Vice President Kamala Harris has been critical of the Indian government’s annexation of Kashmir in 2019 India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party says it does not expect much pressure from the US NEW DELHI: Some hope has sprung in Kashmir, residents of the valley say, as Kamala Harris, the new American vice president […]
Silence in Kashmir on India’s Republic Day
In Kashmir, the holiday means internet blackouts and pre-emptive detentions amid heightened security protocols. By Bhat Burhan On a chilly Sunday morning in Kashmir, Obaid Mir and his friend were walking toward a school playground to have a smoke when his cell phone rang. It was a phone call from a local police station. The […]
Kashmiris observe Black Day across globe
Complete shutdown in IIOJK on Indian Republic Day Srinagar, January 26: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over observed India’s Republic Day as Black Day, today, to send a loud and clear message to the world that they categorically reject illegal occupation of their motherland by India. Call for […]
APHC-AJK holds anti-India demo in Islamabad on Black Day
Islamabad, January 26: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter held a protest demonstration outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to mark India’s Republic Day, today, as Black Day. The demonstration was attended by the Hurriyat AJK leaders and heads of other political organizations and other leaders. Addressing the protesters, […]
Indian Republic Day observed as Black Day in Azad Kashmir
Muzaffarabad, January 26: India’s Republic Day was observed as Black Day in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and wherever Kashmiris live in the world with renewed pledge to continue the struggle for right to self-determination till its logical conclusion. The day was observed near Line of Control in Azad Kashmir under the aegis of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and […]
‘I will burn myself to death’: Kashmir’s nomads evicted from homes amid anti-Muslim crackdown
Srinagar, January 02: In mid-November, officials from the forest department in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) had surrounded the mountain-top mud-hut house in the village of Kanidajan where Mr Bajad, 70, had lived for his entire life. “The officials threatened me and my family with jail if I didn’t leave my house,” said […]
