“Dawood’s smile and politeness were overwhelming, but so was the injustice he had suffered; his mother wanted to sell family land to buy him a gun”
Anantnag: On an unusually cold March afternoon earlier this year, while I lazed around at home, a friend called to ask if I wanted to do a story on three friends who were “framed” in the murder of a mainstream political activist and kept behind bars for about 4 years.
“Two of them became militants and one has been killed already. I sense the third one might become a militant as well,” the friend briefed me. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SRINAGAR: She was so elated at her militant son’s sudden visit home that she fell unconscious. At hospital, doctors said she has suffered life-threatening brain haemorrhage. Barely six hours later, the son was killed in a gunfight.
Ateeqa Banoo, a widow in her late fifties, went unconscious upon seeing her son Dawood Alai alias Dawood Khan, a Hizb militant.
While she was being treated at the Anantnag district hospital, Dawood was killed in Khudwani area of the neighbouring Kulgam district.
Ateeqa’s condition deteriorated in the morning when Dawood was being laid to rest at his native village, Hawoora in Qamioh area of Kulgam district. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Muzaffarabad: Pakistani police say Indian troops have fired across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing three civilians.
Police official Ashfaq Hussain said Monday that shelling by Indian troops overnight hit a house in the Fatehpur area in Haveli district in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, causing the casualties. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
EJAZ-UL-HAQ BHAT
Bandipora: A decapitated body of a local youth was recovered from the Jehlum near Gulshan Abad area of Hajin in Bandipora district on Sunday morning.
A police official said that the body was recovered early morning after locals found it floating in the river.
He said that the slain youth was later identified by his family as Muzaffar Ahmad Parrey alias Muzaffar Nata son of Farooq Ahmad Parrey, a resident of Parrey Mohalla, Hajin. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Srinagar: Indian forces launched a cordon and search operation in six villages of Shopian district, today.
Indian Army and police launched searches in Matribugh, Zoipora, Dangam, Wangam and several other villages of the district. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Sameer Yasir and Shashank Bengali
Srinagar: On the eighth day after his son disappeared, Mohammad Munawar Dar’s phone rang. It was an Indian army officer with news that Dar couldn’t bring himself to believe.
The officer said he had information that Dar’s son Shakoor, 21, had joined the anti-Indian insurgency in Kashmir, the long-disputed Himalayan territory enduring its worst outbreak of violence in years. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Owais Farooqi
Bandipora: The headless body of a youth who was known to be a pro-freedom agitator was recovered from near the river Jhelum in Mandi area of Hajin in Bandipora district on Sunday morning. The Lashkar-e-Toiba issued a statement blaming “Indian forces” for the gruesome killing, while the family said that Muzaffar had been severely tortured in police custody before he was released a month ago. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Owais Farooqi
Bandipora: Residents of Naidkhai in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district are resenting and protesting the occupation of large plot of land meant for a hospital by army this week.
The troops of 13 RR set foot on the plot on Thursday, and the residentsresented the move by throwing stones at them. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Manzoor-ul-Hassan
Srinagar: Hundreds of pellet victims injured during the 2016 uprising are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the government’s health department has discontinued its rehabilitation plan.
Rendering the survivors highly vulnerable to PTSD, the health department has stopped its much-hyped, community-based counselling programme. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Srinagar: Normal life remained affected for the second successive day today due to a strike against killing of a youth in alleged fake encounter by the Army in north Kashmir district of Kupwara.
All shops and business establishments remained closed and traffic was off the road.
No separatist group had called for strike today.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the killing of the third year student Shahid Bashir Mir, who army claimed to have killed in an encounter in Hafrada forests in Handwara on Tuesday. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Srinagar: The killing of a student in an alleged fake encounter here in Handwara sparked violent protest while protesters torched an official vehicle of the district administration Kupwara.
Shahid Bashir Mir of Daril Tarathpora Handwara who according to his family had gone missing was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Hafrada forests of Handwara. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“HC Had Quashed His Detention In December Last Year”
Anantnag: The detention of Sarjan Ahmad Wagay alias Barkati, a charismatic crowd puller during last year’s uprising, was quashed last year by the High Court. But the police, instead of releasing him, have been shifting him from jail to jail after booking him in new cases, says his wife.
Barkati, a resident of Reban village of Shopian district, had been booked under the Public Safety Act after his arrest in October last year. He had become a household name during the uprising for his distinct style of sloganeering at mammoth pro-freedom rallies. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…