SRINAGAR: India will go on hunting militants in Kashmir despite widespread protests over the killing of a young separatist commander, officials said, as the government bets that force coupled with development will quell rebellion in the restive state. The strategy for the Muslim-majority region contested by nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan has worked in part. […]
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Hurriyat leaders arrested as Held Kashmir violence toll soars to 34
SRINAGAR: Indian police on Wednesday arrested senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani after he allegedly defied restrictions and marched towards the martyrs’ graveyard in Srinagar. Several areas of the Valley, including Pampore, Kupwara and Anantnag, remained under unrelenting curfew as Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control observed the 86th Kashmir Martyrs […]
JKAAC resolves to carry forward the mission of Kashmiri martyrs
Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Awami Action Committee (JKAAC) paid tributes to the July 13 martyrs of 1931, Burhan Muzaffar Wani and other martyrs of Kashmir, and reasserted their resolve to take the martyrs’ mission to its logical conclusion. According to a press release issued, AAC said that the foundation for Kashmir’s resistance movement was laid on […]
Modi calls for calm as violence in Occupied Kashmir escalates
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday appealed to the people of Held Kashmir to maintain calm so that the situation can normalise in the violence-hit valley. Chairing a high-level meeting on the situation in Kashmir Valley, where at least 32 people have lost lives in the protests triggered by the killing of Hizbul […]
Eight protesters killed, over 200 injured in IHK
SRINAGAR: Eight protesters were killed and more than 200 injured in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) on Saturday after thousands defied a curfew following the death of a top separatist commander, officials said. Shiv Murari Sahai, a top police official in the region, told reporters that seven protesters were killed by government forces in “retaliatory action” and […]
India-held Kashmir celebrates Eid with Pakistan
SRINAGAR: Authorities in India announced that Eidul Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramazan, would be on Thursday. But for Kashmiris residing in India-held areas, Pakistan’s announcement in this regard had more weight. “Eid is a moment of joy, one of very few occasions when Kashmiris come together to celebrate,” said […]
New Taliban leader tells US to end Afghan occupation
KABUL: New Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada called on the US Saturday to end its “occupation” of Afghanistan in his first message since being appointed the militant group’s chief. The message was released to mark the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid and comes two days after Taliban-claimed suicide blasts, targeting a convoy of buses transporting Afghan […]
Taliban attack police cadets in Kabul, kill 30
KABUL: The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a twin suicide attack targeting a convoy of buses transporting Afghan police cadets in Kabul, which Afghanistan’s interior ministry said killed 30 and wounded 58. The bloodshed, which was condemned as a ‘crime against humanity’ by President Ashraf Ghani, comes little over a week after 14 Nepali security […]
Eight troops killed in Kashmir attack
SRINAGAR: At least eight Indian paramilitary soldiers and two suspected fighters were killed Saturday near Srinagar in India-held Kashmir when a group of armed men ambushed the soldiers’ convoy, police said. Four gunmen sprayed bullets on the convoy carrying members of India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near Pampore town, killing five soldiers instantly and […]
India launches record 20 satellites in single mission
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully launched a rocket carrying a record 20 satellites as its famously frugal space agency looks to grab a larger slice of the lucrative commercial space market. The rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota carrying satellites from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia, the most in a […]