Srinagar: Intense clashes erupted in Kulgam district of southern Kashmir on Friday amid pro-freedom protests against the killing of militants in Arwani gunfight on Thursday. Reports said that one teenager has suffered bullet injury during the clashes. Scores of the youth from Khudwani, Redwani, and adjoining areas clashed with government forces and hurled rocks at […]
Srinagar: Thousands of people Friday thronged the funeral prayers of slain four militants who were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Arwini area of southern Kashmir’s Anantnag district last night. Witnesses said that thousands of people, men, women and children marched to Arwini, Watoo Aharbal and Damhal Hanjipora where the slain militants belonged. […]
Srinagar: Militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Friday claimed the responsibility for the attack on army camp at Panzoo area of Nader, Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late Thursday evening. A JeM spokesperson Mohammad Hassan in a statement to a local news gathering agency claimed that three army men were killed in the attack while […]
Srinagar: Militants on Friday attacked the Army’s 34RR camp in Mantribuh village of southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. Sources said that the militants fired indiscriminately at the army camp at around noon today. The fire was also retaliated by the army, they said. However no loss of life was reported in the incident. More details are […]
Srinagar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out a search at office of human rights organisation Amnesty International in Bangalore, apparently in connection with an investigation into the group’s foreign funding. In an official statement quoted by the Indian Express, the ED said that Amnesty International India Foundation Trust was trying to circumvent the […]
Srinagar: Government forces arrested two youth during a nocturnal raid in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that government forces cordoned a cluster of houses in Karimabad locality of Pulwama town and detained two local youth in the dead of the night. Police sources said that the youth have been detained for questioning for their […]
Srinagar: Government forces on Friday imposed strict restrictions in Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar to foil the Joint Resistance Leadership called protest against the Kulgam civilian and militant killings in Kashmir. Personnel of Jammu and Kashmir police and other paramilitary forces patrolled streets and enforced a security lockdown in the downtown neighborhoods in anticipation of pro-freedom […]
Srinagar: Despite restrictions massive throng was witnessed in the funeral prayers of slain Lashkar militant who was killed along with his associate in Kreeri area of northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. Witnessed said that hundreds of people assembled in Khanpora locality of the town after the body of Akeel Rashid Sofi reached his home […]
Srinagar: The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed are no more on the list of banned outfits after the presidential ordinance that proscribed them under a UN resolution lapsed, Dawn reported on Friday. During the hearing on Thursday of a petition filed by Hafiz Saeed, his counsel informed the Islamabad […]
Srinagar: Former Finance Minister of India and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Friday hit out at Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik for his remarks that political parties have no right to talk about India-Pakistan dialogue, saying the country’s governors are the new viceroys. In a series of tweets, the former finance and home […]
