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Kashmir clashes: Driver succumbs to his injuries

By News Desk One person, who was injured on March 8 during clashes between Kashmiri protestors and the police in South Kashmir has succumbed to his injuries in the hospital on Monday. Riyaz Ahmad Khanday son of Nazir Ahmad, resident of Aang Matipora was a load carrier driver. He got injured during stone throwing at [...]

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Indian forces use pepper gas in Kashmir, despite SHRC directions

By News Desk Despite clear directions from the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) against the use of pepper gas to disperse protestors, government has failed to control police and para military forces who are using the “deadly pepper gas against protestors in residential areas.” Pertinent to mention that despite the SHRC banning use of pepper [...]

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Kashmir’s one month since Afzal Guru’s hanging: 350 civilians, 150 cops injured; 4 dead

By News Desk | Photographs by Shahid Tantray On February 9, 2013, at 8 am, accused for the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged. It has been a month since his hanging and the Kashmir valley has only seen a few days of normalcy. As per the reports published [...]

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Police register cases against hundreds of Kashmir youth; arrests trigger clashes

By News Desk Continued arrest spree of youth by Police evoked wide spread protests at dozens of places in Valley on Saturday. People in hundreds of came on roads at Palhalan Pattan and Mazhama, Sopore, Pakharpora, Bandipora and at other places demanding the immediate release of arrested youth. People alleged that police arrested scores of [...]

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Indian forces beat up Kashmiri cop for stopping to shoot civilians

By Neyaz Elahi | Srinagar A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel of India beat up a police Head Constable with gun butts. The policeman was beaten to pulp in South Kashmir’s Khudweni area of Kulgam when he stopped the CRPF men from firing directly at protestors. “I am injured. They beat me ruthlessly but [...]

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Kashmir: 60 civilians, 26 policemen injured in fresh clashes

By News Desk While curfew remained clamped in most parts of Kashmir atleast 60 persons including 26 policemen and CRPF personnel were injured in clashes that erupted at several places across the valley on Friday. Though no separatist group had called for shutdown on Friday, people across the valley observed strike in protest against the killing [...]

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No curfew on Saturday

By News Desk The Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, Asghar Samoon today said no restrictions or curfew will be imposed in any part of the valley on Saturday. “We had to impose curfew and restrictions on Friday as a preventive measure, however, I have directed all Deputy Commissioners via video conference that no curfew or restrictions [...]

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Geelani condemns Kashmir youth’s killing by Indian army

By News Desk | Srinagar The chairman of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has condemned the killing of 24-year-old, Tahir Rasool Sofi who was killed in district Varmul of North Kashmir, this afternoon by the army’s 46-Rashtriya Rifles. Addressing the people telephonically from New Delhi, Geelani said “martyrdom of Tahir Rasool Sofi will not [...]

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Kashmir: Clashes and protests over scholar’s death

By Xinhua | Srinagar Life across Muslim majority areas of Indian-controlled Kashmir remained affected for the second straight day on Tuesday due to protests and shutdown over the death of a Kashmiri student in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Mudasir Ahmed Malla, pursuing PhD at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad, [...]

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Decoding Kashmir’s language and politics

By Shubhrastha very revolt, protest and dissent acquires language of appropriation. Based on its individual politics, it chooses the symbols, tags, brands and names of comprehension and diffusion. The protests in the valley of Kashmir are one among the many similar yet different manifestations of clash between contending parties across the globe. This article seeks [...]

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A haunting hunt

By Saba Firdous What is it that I am unable to forget despite the passage of years? What is it that makes me insecure when I step out of my house or even when I am in the safe comfort of my home? What is it that is still a nightmare for me? It is [...]

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Sep 20, 2010: A page of my diary

By Aadil Langoo Today the All Party Delegation of Indian politicians arrived in Srinagar, Indian-held-Kashmir, with both hope and despair. Hope that somehow they will revive the peace, resolve the unresolved, and heal the festered wounds. Despair, as they carry the same cold nationalist look they have been carrying over the years. The day passed [...]

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