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December 8, 2018 No Responses

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq urges UN to send ‘Fact-Finding’ team to Kashmir

Expressing serious concern over the “rising graph” of human rights violations in Kashmir, the chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday urged the United Nations to send a “fact-finding team” to Kashmir for a “first-hand appraisal of...

December 3, 2018 No Responses

Ahtisham Bilal, Kashmir student who joined IS returns home, later whisked away by police

Atisham Bilal Sofi, a student of Sharda University in Greater Noida from Khanyar area of Srinagar who recently joined Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) militant outfit has been detained by police from his home. Family sources informed reporters that...

December 1, 2018 No Responses

Kashmir on Norway’s peace engagements, advocates for Tri-Party Dialogue

A sudden change of heart of New Delhi to allow the former prime minister of Norway, Kjell Magne Bondevik to visit Kashmir has come as a surprise to many but at the same time has rekindled a new hope toward...

November 30, 2018 No Responses

UN urged to stop rights violations in Kashmir

The Jammu and Kashmir Socio-Economic Coordination Committee (JKSECC), an amalgam of several business organizations and civil society formations, on Thursday sought UN intervention to stop human rights violations in the Valley. “We appeal to the UN Secretary-...

November 28, 2018 No Responses

223 Rebels killed in 11 months across Kashmir Valley

Surpassing last year’s militant death toll of 209, the security force have killed 223 ultras in 2018 even as there is still one month to go for this year. Last year, the security forces had launched an ‘Operation All-out’ to...

November 26, 2018 No Responses

Nine killed, scores injured in clashes in south Kashmir

Six militants of Hizbul Mujahedeen and Laskhar-e-Toiba including three district commanders and a Territorial Army man were killed while another Army man was injured in a gunfight at Batagund village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district Sunday morning. Mea...