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Militants attack policemen in Kashmir; 4 dead
By News Desk | Kashmir At least four policemen have been killed by suspected militants in north Kashmir’s volatile Sopore town- 55 kilometers from Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar. A police patrol party was attacked by the suspected militants in the town. The slain policemen have been identified as Head Constable, Abdul Rehman (86/SPR) [...]
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From stones to guns, a ‘martyr’ at home
Among thousands people including men, women, and children of all ages, the body of a local militant, lies on a bed and wrapped in a shroud. They (people) are desperate to have a glimpse of the Shabir Ahmad Shiekh, who is now a “martyr” for the people of his ancestral village.
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Indian forces arrest Lashkar militant in Kashmir; another killed
By News Desk | Srinagar One militant was killed while another managed to escape after the Jammu and Kashmir police and Indian paramilitary forces raided their hide out in an orchard in Wagbug village of north Kashmir’s Varmul district. Police has also seized arms and ammunition from the encounter site. A Laskhar-e-Toiba Divisional Commander for [...]
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Militants attack Indian forces in Kashmir; one civilian killed
By News Desk | Srinagar The Jammu and Kashmir police today said that the militants attacked a police party in a Sopore market at 12.35 pm, leaving a civilian dead and a policeman seriously injured. Sopore is 55 kilometres north of the Indian Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar, in the district Varmul. “Militants opened firing on a police [...]
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“Afzal Guru is the son of Kashmir; people will decide his burial place”
By Fahad Shah Sopore, Indian-Controlled Kashmir Without letting him to see his family one last time before he was killed, on February 9, 2012, Mohammad Afzal Guru, born on June 13, 1967, was hanged and buried in the Tihar jail of India at 8 am. A day before I arrived in Kashmir. The first thing I [...]
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A Mother’s Love
By Muhabit-ul-Haq If there was one word to describe why eighty-year old Gawri shri stayed back, it would be love: Motherly love that ignored the ‘orders’ and ‘threats’ of leaving Kashmir in the infamous mass exodus of Kashmiri pundits. She sacrificed a ‘better life’ to fulfill the wish of her son. Behind many ruins of [...]
Martyrs Day Of Sopore
By Iymon Ganaie A busy market place shields the green fenced graveyard at the town center. Shopping complexes shadow it. The entrance to the graveyard is closed, as if it has been never opened. Over the main entrance gate a hoarding announces, “Graveyard for the martyrs of 1931”. Inside, the gravestones are not visible. They [...]
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Why He Throws Stones
By Iymon Ganaie In the battlefield; guns, bullets, teargas shells, lathis, bricks and stones are the common weapons. Stone is Manzoor’s only weapon in this battle, played on the streets and highways of Kashmir. “Either you hit or you miss. There is no in between,” Manzoor says of the stones he throws. Winters often put [...]
Kashmir \ Sabreena \ Sopore \ Suicide
“Ayas te Ayas wapas, Ayas te ne kiheen”
By Fahad Shah In a well lit room, of their one storey house at Model Town, Sopore, Sabreena’s family and relatives are wailing. Sabreena committed suicide by jumping into the river Jhelum on May 13. A Master’s degree in Education (M. Ed) application form still has her handwritten name, Sabreena Mohiudin Kababi, which she filled [...]
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Militant or student?
By Fahad Shah “Did you see my beloved anywhere?” holding tears at the ends of her eye lids a forlorn mother asked in a dimly lit room with red curtains and black blankets on the floor. In her fifties, Zamrooda Shah, mother of Peerzada Arshid Ahmed Shah who was killed on Monday afternoon in Qamarwari [...]
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