Sat 31 October 2020: Shops and businesses are shut in several parts of Indian-administered Kashmir in a general strike called to protest against new laws that allow Indians to buy land in the disputed region. Government forces in riot gear patrolled streets in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar in anticipation of anti-India protests. Public transport […]
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Activists and rights groups have condemned Indian agency’s raids on non-governmental organisations, activists and journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir, national capital New Delhi and the southern city of Bengaluru over alleged “terror funding” in the disputed region. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a series of raids in those places on Wednesday and Thursday, accusing several “non-profit […]
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Tue 27 October 2020: Urban land and immovable property in Jammu and Kashmir can now be purchased by residents of any state, with the Centre notifying a new law to integrate the Union territory with the rest of the country. Earlier, only residents of Jammu and Kashmir were allowed to purchase land in the state. […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: The Estates Department of Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday sealed the office of a famous daily in Srinagar. The owners of the newspaper, however, claimed that the due process of law was not followed. The office of ‘Kashmir Times’ at Press Enclave in Srinagar was sealed yesterday. No reason was […]
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Fri 16 October 2020: Srinagar: In a significant development, political parties in Jammu and Kashmir that are signatories to the ‘Gupkar Declaration’ on Thursday formally announced the formation of an alliance to “constitutionally fight” for the restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status. Top leaders of these parties met at the residence of National Conference president […]
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Wed 14 October 2020: Mufti was released on Tuesday evening, over 14 months after she was detained following the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status on August 5, 2019. Mufti, 61, is the last of Jammu and Kashmir’s mainstream political leaders to have been set free after the constitutional changes split the region into […]
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Sat 26 September 2020: Police chief’s statement corroborates family’s claim Indian army killed their sons in ‘staged gunfight’ SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – DNA samples from three “unidentified militants” killed this July in Indian-administered Kashmir have been found to match their DNA of their grieving families, disproving police claims they had died in an […]
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Wed 23 September 2020: India has termed as “completely unacceptable” references to Jammu and Kashmir by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday lauded Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for once again raising his voice in support of the rights of the Kashmiri people during his address at United Nations General […]
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Thu 17 September 2020: SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – A 23-year-old young man in Indian-administered Kashmir was allegedly killed in police custody Tuesday night, according to his family. The deceased, identified as Irfan Ahmad Dar of Northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district, was arrested by police at his home at around 12.45 p.m. (0715GMT) Tuesday while […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: OIC ambassadors tell Michelle Bachelet that in last year human rights situation worsened in Jammu and Kashmir GENEVA – Ambassadors of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group in Geneva met Tuesday with the UN’s human rights chief on the conditions in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan’s Geneva mission to […]
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