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SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested prominent Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez Monday under the anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. A family member told Anadolu Agency that NIA officials, who raided his residence early Monday, took him to the agency’s camp office that is some distance […]

19th Nov 2021

Jammu & Kashmir: Bodies of 2 Kashmiri civilians killed by Indian forces returned to families

By Hilal Mir SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): Indian-administered Kashmir authorities returned the bodies of two civilians killed by government forces on Tuesday, after widespread public outrage and protests by the bereaved families. After being exhumed at a remote northern Kashmir hamlet, more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from their homes in Srinagar, […]

2nd Sep 2021

Family barred by Indian police from attending Kashmiri leader Geelani funeral

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): Amid restrictions on people’s movement and internet and cellular services, Indian police took the body of Kashmir’s top leader Syed Ali Geelani and buried him under its custody in the capital Srinagar early on Thursday. A close relative of Geelani, asking to remain anonymous, told Anadolu Agency over the […]

14th Nov 2020

Kashmir: Border clashes kill 10 civilians

By Nusrat Sidiq and Aamir Latif SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): At least 15 people were killed, including four Indian soldiers and one Pakistani trooper as heavy shelling and gunfire were exchanged Friday between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control, officials said. Official sources from India said four security personnel were […]

19th Feb 2020

Jammu & Kashmir: Internet shutdown cripples research in Kashmir

By Nusrat Sidiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): The communication clampdown over the past six months in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has crippled research activity in academic and scientific institutions . The region has two central and nine state universities besides two premier engineering institutes and 93 degree colleges. Even as the government […]

17th Feb 2020

Pakistan: Growing Islamophobia ‘intolerable’: UN chief

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The UN chief on Sunday voiced his concern over rising Islamophobia in the world, calling it “intolerable.” UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres’ remarks came during a joint news conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the capital Islamabad, where he arrived early Sunday on a four-day visit. “We […]

20th Jan 2020

Pakistani PM warns India over civilian killings on Kashmir LoC

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned India on Sunday of a befitting response over the continued killing of civilians across the Line of Control (LoC), a de facto border that divides the Kashmir valley between Pakistan and India. “I want to make clear to India and the international […]

16th Jan 2020

UN holds Kashmir talks as rights fears continue

By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS (AA): UN Security Council members held rare talks on the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday amid ongoing concerns over the flashpoint between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. After the meeting, senior Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy said the 15-nation body had discussed the contentious Indian-administered region, where New Delhi […]

15th Jan 2020

Kashmir: Avalanche kills 61 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 61 people were killed and over 53 injured after an avalanche struck a village in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, official media said on Tuesday. Rescue operations were launched for another 12 victims who are missing after the incident, which occurred in Surgan village of the mountainous Neelam Valley […]

5th Sep 2019

Jammu and Kashmir: Srinagar pro-India Mayor under house arrest

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI, India (AA): The Mayor of the capital of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region has been placed under house arrest following remarks critical of the ongoing brutal clampdown on Kashmir and the detention of its political leaders, said media reports. Junaid Azim Mattu, the Pro-India mayor of Jammu and […]

14th Aug 2019

Subdued Eid in Jammu and Kashmir amid clampdown by India

By Shuriah Niazi New Delhi (AA): Low-key Eid prayers were reported in India administered Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, as authorities kept strict vigil. UK is still refusing to condemn the clampdown by Indian Government with hundreds of people arrested, many Kashmiris injured by Indian troops, mosques closed down. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Spokesperson gave […]

9th Aug 2019

Jammu & Kashmir: One killed, hundreds injured in brutal clampdown by India

By Riyaz ul Khaliq AA: One Kashmiri Muslim was killed and hundreds injured in violent clampdown by India in Jammu and Kashmir. Around 500 have been detained by the Indian troops in the last five days. The world governments have been reluctant to condemn the brutal crackdown. The UK Government has refused to condemn […]

4th Aug 2019

Pakistan says India used cluster munition against civilians, India denies

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The Pakistani army on Saturday claimed that India’s armed forces used banned cluster munitions to target civilians near the de facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir valley, claims immediately denied by India. Meanwhile, the India has sent 10,000 extra troops to Kashmir – where it already has 500,000 […]

13th Jun 2019

India extends president’s rule over Jammu and Kashmir

By Ahmad Adil CHANDIGARH, India (AA): The government here approved Wednesday an extension of the president’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir for six months effective July 3, officials said. “Based on the prevailing situation in the state as stated in the report of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Cabinet, chaired by the […]

21st May 2019

UN demands India provide answers on civilian killings in Kashmir

[Photo: Indian policeman fires pellets towards pro freedom protestors during anti India clashes in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on May 16, 2019. Photographer: Faisal Khan/AA] Ahmad Adil CHANDIGARH, India (AA): Three UN rapporteurs have written a letter to India seeking details of steps taken to provide justice in 76 cases of torture and arbitrary killings in […]

6th Mar 2019

Jammu and Kashmir: 2 militants killed by Indian forces amid shutdown

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): Two militants were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight with Indian armed forces in Tral area in the south of Kashmir, police said. Police spokesman Manoj Pandita in a statement confirmed the killings and identified the two slain militants as Adfar Fayaz and Irfan Ahmad. […]

11th Feb 2019

Jammu & Kashmir: 5 Kashmiris killed by Indian forces in gun battle

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, JAMMU KASHMIR, India (AA): Five Kashmiri militants were killed in a gun battle by Indian armed forces in southern Kashmir on Sunday. “Based on a credible input about the presence of terrorists in the Kellam area of Devsar in District Kulgam, a cordon and search operation was launched today. In […]

14th Jan 2019

Jammu & Kashmir: 11 civilians wounded in Indian army gunfire

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): At least 11 civilians were wounded on Sunday when Indian armed forces opened fire on mourners and protesters gathered to offer funeral prayers for two slain militants in the south of Kashmir. Six of the injured were taken to the district hospital in Pulwama. Medical […]

9th Jan 2019

Jammu & Kashmir: 2018 deadliest year in decade, 586 killed

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): The year 2018 was the deadliest in the last decade in Jammu and Kashmir, as 586 people were killed in the region, according to a rights group. Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) — a rights group based in Srinagar, the capital city of Jammu Kashmir — […]

16th Dec 2018

Jammu & Kashmir: 7 civilians among 11 killed by Indian troops

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): At least eleven people – including seven civilians, an Indian soldier and three militants – were killed in Kashmir’s south on Saturday, police said. According to the police, the slain civilians were part of a large crowd approaching near a site of a gun battle […]

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