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Kashmir Life
April 24, 2018
Srinagar. Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday held an extraordinary meeting concerning the various issues of doctors. The spokesman quoting Dr Suhail Naik, President DAK said that “In a meeting, it was unanimously decided that all the doctors working in peripheral health care system ofÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
April 24, 2018
Meanwhile, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani addressing a seminar at Hyderpora in Srinagar said that India's unjustified claim on Kashmir was a stumbling block for settlement of the Kashmir dispute through talks. The APHC chairman said that he had never been against talks,Ãâà...
Daily News & Analysis
April 24, 2018
The government of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to implement the recommendations of the seventh pay commission. With this move Jammu and Kasmir has become first state to do so. The J&K employees would get their revised salaries from this month. The J&K government announced the good newsÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 24, 2018
After perfecting the art of trolling Indian cricket fans, Dennis seems to have sharpened his sense of humor too. The Australian journalist was at his best when he reacted to Sania Mirza's Twitter post in which the tennis star seemed to announce her pregnancy and her intention to surname it Mirza-Malik.
Pakistan Observer
April 24, 2018
Views from Srinagar. Syed Maajid Rashid Andrabi. THE valley of Kashmir is going through a very turbulent state. Every now and then, the severe repercussions of the mistakes done in the past, gloom on the people of valley and make their life miserable. There seems no end to the desolation when we lookÃâà...
The Hindu
April 24, 2018
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat on Monday welcomed the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Meghalaya and parts of Arunachal Pradesh. “It's good news. We all need to work for creating conditions conducive to its revocation in J&KÃâà...
The Hindu
April 23, 2018
There was no let up in protests by students in the Kashmir Valley on Monday despite a slew of stringent measures, including the closure of private tuition centres by the government. Students of over 20 educational institutes held demonstrations over the Kathua rape and murder case in parts of the Valley.
IHS Jane's 360
April 23, 2018
Increasing indigenisation is likely to trigger an escalation in militant attacks, primarily due to reported support for local militants among sections of the civilian population. Despite increasing militancy, this issue is highly likely to remain concentrated within the state of Kashmir and is not expected to spread toÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 14, 2018
By Zahid Rafiq / Shuriah Niazi. SRINAGAR / NEW DELHI, India. India's top court on Friday took note of the conduct of lawyers' associations in the rape and murder case of a minor girl in Jammu and Kashmir. Some 40 lawyers in Kathua district, located in south of the valley, were charged with criminalÃâà...
Economic Times
April 14, 2018
JAMMU: BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav on Saturday said that there was no threat to the ruling PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir as both the parties were working in coordination. He arrived here earlier on Saturday to chair a Bharatiya Janata Party legislature meet at the partyÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 14, 2018
"If you can read this without your blood starting to boil you need to take a long hard look at yourself," tweeted former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah after the police investigation report became public. Sordid and frightening details have emerged from the police chargesheet filed for theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2018
Tensions are running high in Indian-administered Kashmir after violent clashes between Indian forces and separatists led to several deaths and ongoing protests. Many Kashmiris are also mourning the deaths of a number of civilians recently killed by Indian troops, which human rights activists say isÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 14, 2018
Conflict along the line of control (LoC) — the dividing mark between Indian and Pakistani-controlled portions of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir — has become a permanent feature of India-Pakistan relations. Even as India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating the ceasefire agreementÃâà...
Times of India
April 14, 2018
SRINAGAR: Regional polarization in the state is so deep that even as both Kashmir and Jammu are hit by protests, the reasons are entirely different. While the winter capital, Jammu has been up in arms against the arrest of seven Hindu men accused of raping and murdering 8-year-old girl of MuslimÃâà...
The Santiago Times
April 14, 2018
SRINAGAR – An eight-year-old girl was raped and murdered in India by a gang of Hindus trying to scare away a nomadic tribe group to which she belonged. Police in the occupied Kashmir valley say the attack in January on Asifa Bano had been planned for over a month as a way to terrify the Bakarwals,Ãâà...
South China Morning Post
April 12, 2018
Cross-border clashes between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in Kashmir have reached the highest levels in 15 years, figures from both sides show, with hundreds killed or wounded and no solution in sight. The de facto border dividing the mountainous territory had been relatively quiet in theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 12, 2018
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir - Four civilians and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle in southern Kashmir, sparking mass protests across the region in which dozens were wounded during clashes with security forces. Inspector General of Police Swayam Prakash Pani told Al Jazeera onÃâà...
NPR
April 2, 2018
Shopfronts stood shuttered and classrooms sat empty in towns across Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, just one day after a spasm of bloodshed killed at least 20 people, four of whom were civilians. Separatist leaders called for a general strike in protest, even as Indian security forces sought toÃâà...
New York Times
April 1, 2018
SHOPIAN, Kashmir — An Indian Army operation against militants fighting Indian rule in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley killed at least 12 militants on Sunday, the largest one-day death toll of insurgents in recent years, officials in Kashmir said. At least three soldiers and four civilians also died, and aboutÃâà...
Kashmir Reader
March 21, 2018
Last evening, Dadji' s routinely funny jokes made me laugh loudly. Suddenly, however, everybody became mute and turned around to my mother whose sigh and gloomy face suggested and carried umpteen, unexplained stories. Was it loneliness? Was it some deep wound? Was it forlornness or did it allÃâà...
Daily Pioneer
March 21, 2018
One of the three terrorists killed by the security forces in Anantnag, Kashmir, on March 12, has been identified by Telangana police as a Telugu radicalised by Islamic State (IS) ideology through the social media and had ventured forth to participate in the IS' terrorist activities. This has reportedly givenÃâà...
Greater Kashmir
March 21, 2018
Before one delves into history of Kashmir and Kashmiris, it would be interesting to understand the meaning of the words the Nation and the Nation-State. According to Oxford dictionary, a Nation is, “A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular stateÃâà...
The Hindu
March 21, 2018
A message from my old friend Shaheen who teaches at a university in Kashmir, woke me up that morning. “Tulip Garden is opening in a week. If at all you can manage, let me know.” In response to Shaheen's message there I was catching an early morning flight to Srinagar! From afar, I saw a sea of colours,Ãâà...
gulfnews.com
March 21, 2018
SRINAGAR: Eight people — four soldiers and policemen and four suspected rebels — have been killed in a continuing fierce gunbattle in Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. The clash began Tuesday when an army patrol was attacked by unknown gunmen in the northern forests of Halmatpura, near the deÃâà...
WRAL.com
March 21, 2018
SRINAGAR, India — Officials say a fierce gunbattle has killed four Indian government forces and four suspected militants in disputed Kashmir. Police say the fighting erupted after government forces cordoned off a forested village in northwestern Kupwara region on Tuesday following a tip that insurgentsÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 21, 2018
Police superintendent Shamsher Hussain told Al Jazeera the gunfight started on Tuesday after rebels opened fire on troops in the forested area of Kupwara, a border region in Indian-administered Kashmir. "Five security personnel and five terrorists have been killed in the gun battle. The operation is over.
Aljazeera.com
March 20, 2018
Cashmere scarfs are usually embroidered with flowers and birds, but the artists Mahum Shabir and Mir Suhail wanted to challenge conventional representations of Kashmir and its crafts by designing scarfs with barbed wire and guns. In 2011, the artists founded Crafted in Kashmir, a project aimed atÃâà...
Economic Times
March 20, 2018
SRINAGAR: Four unidentified militants were killed in an ongoing operation in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, the Army said on Tuesday evening. ... data compiled by the government and civil society groups, at least 28 militants, 15 armed forces personnel and 13 civilians were killed in Kashmir this year.
New York Times
March 18, 2018
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Five members of a family were killed and two others were wounded by shelling in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Sunday, residents and officials said. Over the weekend, India and Pakistan were engaged in cross-border shelling along the Line of Control, which dividesÃâà...
Economic Times
March 18, 2018
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir government has informed the Supreme Court that it has provided X category security cover to a Youth Congress ... The Jammu and Kashmir government had moved the apex court challenging the orders of the high court summoning the chief secretary on February 13.
The Nation
March 18, 2018
MIRPUR (AJK)-Human Rights violations in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir witnessed an upward trend during 2017, said Sardar Amjad Yousaf, the ... called upon the UNHRC to press India to immediately stop human rights violations in IOK, and respect cease fire on the Line of Control in Kashmir.
The Hindu
March 18, 2018
Over 120 delegates from 16 countries converged in Srinagar on Saturday to have a first-hand experience of exquisite products handmade by Valley artisans, providing a ray of hope to the otherwise-declining handicraft industry in the wake of growing instability in Jammu and Kashmir. “We are showcasingÃâà...
Economic Times
March 18, 2018
Seeking to minimise the damage caused by a senior Maldivian minister's remarks on Kashmir, the country's high commissioner here Ahmed Mohamed has said it was a bilateral issue that should be "resolved amicably" between India and Pakistan, as he pitched for enhanced engagement between NewÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 18, 2018
THE sacking of Kashmir's finance minister, Haseeb Drabu, by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on March 12 will give a severe jolt to the PDP's coalition with the BJP. He was its architect, in partnership with BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav (an RSS official seconded to the BJP). Madhav has declared thatÃâà...
Firstpost
March 18, 2018
Five members of a family were killed and two others injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Sunday, a senior police officer said. The injured are being shifted to the hospital. Army PRO Lieutenant ColonelÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 17, 2018
SRINAGAR: The body of another militant was today recovered from the site of yesterday's encounter in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, taking the number of ultras killed in the operation to three, police said. The encounter broke out after an unsuccessful bid by the militants to snatch the weapon ofÃâà...
The Sunday Guardian
March 17, 2018
The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir fear that there are more ISIS terrorists active in the Kashmir valley than is estimated. The government and the intelligence grid are in a tizzy after, in a shootout at Hakoora village of South Kashmir, the third militant has been identified as belonging to Telengana.
Rising Kashmir
March 17, 2018
On the internal front, the main opposition party said, “The growing unrest, violence in and loss of lives in Jammu and Kashmir is a matter of grave national ... process, Congress leadership blamed the BJP-led NDA government at New Delhi saying it had been “using Kashmir issue for its domestic politics”.
The Hindu
March 17, 2018
Over 120 delegates from 16 countries converged in Srinagar on Saturday to have a first-hand experience of exquisite products handmade by Valley artisans, providing a ray of hope to the otherwise-declining handicraft industry in the wake of growing instability in Jammu and Kashmir. “We are showcasingÃâà...
Economic Times
March 17, 2018
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said no power in the world can take Kashmir away from India and if need be forces can cross ... Earlier in 2018, the Jammu and Kashmir government withdrew cases registered against 9,730 people involved in stone-pelting incidents, includingÃâà...
The Nation
March 16, 2018
(13 Aug 1948, Jan 5, 1949) that promised Kashmiris their right to self-determination by holding a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir. They reminded India of the repeated pledges made at the highest level to allow the people of Kashmir to decide their future through a plebiscite, in particular, the statements byÃâà...
Darien Times
March 16, 2018
Wish you could go back in time and see Led Zeppelin in concert? Well, the next best thing rolls into Connecticut when Kashmir: The Live Led Zeppelin Show takes the stage at the Stamford Palace on March 24. We chatted up Jean Violet, who, in 2000, founded the band that has grown to be one of theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 16, 2018
Pulwama, Indian-administered Kashmir - A photojournalist in Indian-administered Kashmir has been released on bail after spending more than six months in jail on charges of "waging war against India" and "stone throwing". Kamran Yusuf returned to his hometown on Thursday after a court in the IndianÃâà...
Kasmir Monitor
March 15, 2018
Nagpur:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday that Kashmir problem is not region-specific but a national issue, and it must be treated in the same manner. "The Kashmir problem should not just be confined to Kashmir alone, but should be viewed as an all India problemÃâà...
Firstpost
March 15, 2018
The Indian Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police are engaged in a gun battle with the terrorist after they cordoned off the area and launched a hunt to nab the militants, TV channel India Today reported. Speaking to the media, Jammu and Kashmir Police chief SP Vaid confirmed that security forcesÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
March 15, 2018
MARCH is the harbinger of spring; the month however has had an ominous setting in Kashmir, down the historical tale. March 2018 dawned with dark clouds hovering over political panorama, as spring remained elusive. The killings in Shopian made it murkier, with a new idiom added to Kashmir's politicalÃâà...
The Nation
March 15, 2018
He paid glorious tributes to Muhammad Eisa Fazili, Syed Owais Shafi and another youth martyred by Indian troops in Hakoora area of Islamabad district recently. The APHC Chairman said these youth spilled their blood for a sacred cause and the entire Kashmir is indebted to them for their sacrifices.
Financial Express
March 15, 2018
The decision by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to drop Haseeb Drabu from her council of ministers for his remarks at a business meet in Delhi is being hotly debated in political circles – especially what its consequences could be on the state's PDP-BJP ruling coalition. By doing whatÃâà...
The News Minute
March 15, 2018
The police statement came amid the claims by the IS and Ansar-ul-Gazwat-ul-Hind, an Al Qaeda franchise in Kashmir, that the third militant, who was killed along with two local militants was a resident of Hyderabad in Telangana. According to reports, this could be the first time that a militant from outside theÃâà...
Times of India
March 15, 2018
NEW DELHI: The J&K police have written to their counterparts in Telangana seeking information about a Islamic State operative killed in encounter with security forces on early Monday. Sources confirmed that the deceased, Mohammed Taufeeq, belonged to Hyderabad and was operating under aliases ofÃâà...
