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Indian troops kill top Kashmiri militant commander
SRINAGAR: Indian security forces killed the chief of the largest militant group in Kashmir in a gun battle on Sunday, as the disputed region is riven by violence more than a year after New Delhi withdrew its semi-autonomy. The killing
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India charges 19, including 7 Pakistanis, over Kashmir bombing
NEW DELHI: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged 19 people, including 7 Pakistani nationals, on Tuesday over a deadly bomb attack on a security convoy in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir last year. The bombing on Feb. 14, 2019 killed
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Eight Indian soldiers die in gunbattles amid major Kashmir offensive
SRINAGAR, India: Three Indian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with militants in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Monday, a day after a similar incident in which five were killed. Juniad Khan, a senior paramilitary force officer, told
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India’s Supreme Court- Kashmir internet shutdown unconstitutional
India’s Supreme Court said today that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional, in a rebuke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The government imposed a communications lockdown in August after it withdrew the Muslim
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India grants diplomats access to restive Kashmir for the first time in months
Foreign diplomats visited India-ruled Kashmir today for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region of special status in August, although some European nations and others declined the invite after being refused permission to travel independently. India’s portion of
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Kashmir conflict: Pro-India politicians feel ‘betrayed’ by Modi
KASHMIR: Dozens of mainstream political leaders and workers have been under detention in Indian-administered Kashmir since August, when India stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status. BBC reported Saleem Mir, who toiled for years to get people to vote for
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India is escalating Kashmir conflict by painting it as terrorism
In 1992, I witnessed an Indian soldier hit a pregnant Kashmiri woman with his rifle butt and utter these words, “get rid of the terrorist you will birth.” That incident, forever etched in my mind, for me epitomises how the
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Fear grips Kashmiri village where Indian migrant workers killed
KATRASOO: Locals in the Kashmiri village where five Indian migrant laborers were killed by gunmen last week say they are living in fear of militant groups as well as the subsequent crackdown by security forces. The five migrants, from India’s
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One dead, 45 injured in grenade attack in Kashmir’s Srinagar
SRINAGAR: One person died and at least 45 were injured yesterday in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, Indian officials said, in the bloodiest incident since New Delhi stripped the region of special status on Aug
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Suspected militants kill two in Indian Kashmir, set apple trucks ablaze
SRINAGAR: Suspected militants shot and killed two drivers and set fire to their apple trucks in Indian Kashmir on Thursday, a senior police official said. The official said the attack took place in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, which is a
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