Mon 10 June 2019: Six of eight men accused of the rape, torture and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-administered Kashmir have been found guilty in a specially convened fast-track court. The victim, who belonged to a Muslim nomadic tribe, was found in a forest near Kathua city in January 2018. The case […]
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Tue 21 May 2019: India refuses to engage on issue with stakeholders, rejects UN report on human rights abuse in Jammu and Kashmir Three UN rapporteurs have written a letter to India seeking details of steps taken to provide justice in 76 cases of torture and arbitrary killings in Jammu and Kashmir since 1990. The […]
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Mon 20 May 2019: Report on torture in J&K: Case Studies find 70% of torture victims are civilians, 11% die as a result of torture Today Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) released the first comprehensive report on torture in Jammu and Kashmir titled Torture: […]
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Fri 17 May 2019: A Muslim man was shot and killed and another injured by Hindu vigilantes on Thursday in Indian-controlled Kashmir over allegations of smuggling cows. A group of Hindu men intercepted the two Muslims in the outskirts of southeastern Bhaderwah town before dawn and shot at them after an altercation, police said. A […]
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Mon 13 May 2019: Citywide strikes shut down Srinagar as people protested against the rape of a three-year-old girl in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. The rape of a three-year-old girl in Sumbal area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district has led to widespread protests across the Valley. Schools and business establishments in the […]
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Mon 06 May 2019: NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India’s northern heartland began voting on Monday in the fifth phase of a staggered general election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoping his record on national security will win him a second five-year term. More than 87 million people across seven states are eligible to vote on […]
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Thu 02 May 2019: Both the United Nations and the International Criminal Court consider the way civilians said they were used by the Indian army to search houses in south Kashmir to be illegal under international law, experts said. However, the soldiers involved were unlikely to have committed crimes under Indian law, they said. Many […]
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Fri 19 Apr 2019: SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Voting in the second phase of India’s general election on Thursday remained largely peaceful amid massive security and a lockdown in parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian officials said the turnout was over 60% across 13 Indian states where voting took place. Kashmiri Muslim […]
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Poonch is part of the Jammu Lok Sabha seat where sitting BJP lawmaker Jugal Kishore faces a challenge from Congress’ Raman Bhalla. The Congress button on an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch is not working and similar malfunctions have been reported in at least six voting booths in the state, a […]
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SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Most nights in recent weeks, journalist Asif Qureshi’s phone vibrates with a message from a known number of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistan-based militant group that killed 40 Indian paramilitary policemen in a suicide attack in Kashmir in February: “Allah always keeps you in safety and security”. “They want to tell us that […]
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