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Kashmir core issue says Imran Khan, Mirwaiz, Abdul Gani Bhat welcome’s statement

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Will take two steps if India takes one : Imran Good Indo-Pak relations will benefit entire region Indian media portraying me like Bollywood villain saddened me I don’t doubt sense of judgment of Pakistani people: Bhat Enough of bloodshed, hope peace gets chance now: Mirwaiz Pakistan is ready to improve its ties with India and his government would like the leaders of the two sides to resolve all disputes, including the “core issue” of Kashmir, through talks, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan said Thursday asserting that the blame game between…

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Rebels strike in heart of Srinagar, killed one CRPF personnel injuring another

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Target security forces’ picket near high-security civil secretariat; Hizb claims responsibility Militants on Tuesday attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel guarding the civil secretariat, killing a constable and wounding another in broad daylight. The attack occurred around 4.30 pm near the civil secretariat in the Batamaloo locality here. “The militants fired at our men who were deployed in the outer cordon of the civil secretariat from inside a building and ran away,” Inspector General of the CRPF (Srinagar sector) Ravi Deep Singh Sahi told Kashmir Post. “Two of our…

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Scores injured in clashes during CASO in Kulgam

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At least thirty people were injured, one of them critically, in clashes with government forces during a cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) in Khudwani area in Kulgam district on Monday. Six of the injured had metal pellet injuries in eyes. Scores of youth took to streets and clashed with the forces who had launched a CASO in Lone Mohala, Khudwani, in the afternoon probably after receiving inputs about the presence of militants. The forces fired tear gas and pellets to chase away the protesters who were trying to disrupt the search operation. Rakeeb…

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Recruitment announcements & Punishment videos: Hizb changes its public messaging in Kashmir

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On July 8, a WhatsApp message went viral in Kashmir. It seemed to console the unsuccessful “applicants” in a recruitment drive. But this was no ordinary job. “We have got thousands of applications and requests from Islam and Freedom loving youth of J&K, but we have chosen a selected group of brothers and have kept the rest of brothers in waiting,” the message read. The message was believed to have been sent out by the Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir’s largest indigenous militant group. It spoke of “extensive recruitment of mujahideen all…

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Minor boys dismembered body sends shockwaves across Valley, Kupwara shuts in protest

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The body of a 10-year-old boy with a chopped arm was recovered from a nullah at Gushi village in Kupwara district on Thursday evening. Umar Farooq Malik, a class III student of Gulgam, Kupwara, had gone missing on July 16. The J&K Police have formed a special investigation team (SIT) to be headed by the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Kupwara, to probe the murder. “It is a brutal murder and we will reach the bottom of it,” Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kupwara, told Kashmir Post.…

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Shopian villagers accuse Army of thrashing civilians, vandalizing houses

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Residents stage protest against ‘Army’s highhandedness’ Army went on a rampage in Mochwara village on south Kashmir’s Shopian district Tuesday night during which around 11 people including two sons of a retired police official and a 10th standard student were mercilessly thrashed, and five houses and some vehicles vandalized, locals said. Aged Ghulam Mohuiddin Shah, a retired police official, informed Kashmir Post that Tuesday evening at around 11:15 pm when they were already asleep, they were awakened by sudden smashing of window panes. “We noticed shreds of window glasses falling…

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Violence sees new high across Kashmir Valley in last three years: MHA

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A total of 256 incidents of violence — a steep hike from 2017 and 2016 — have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir in just six months of 2018, Home Ministry data presented in Parliament on Wednesday revealed. Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir told the Rajya Sabha that 100 militants, 43 security personnel and 16 civilians have been killed in the 256 incidents in the strife-torn state between January 1 and July 8. The data mentioned that 342 and 322 incidents of violence were reported in 2017…

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From Stones to Guns — Kashmir’s vicious cycle of violence

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The road to Tral in a remote sub-district in south Kashmir crisscrosses wet rice fields and icy streams as the Himalayan Mountains arch high on the horizon. An insurgency against Indian rule has been resurrected here in recent years. On July 7, hundreds of people descended upon this picturesque and rural landscape to visit the home of the late insurgent commander Burhan Wani, who has become the area’s most well-known descendant. The second anniversary of Wani’s death on July 8 was a pressure point for regional officials, who feared thousands…

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Teachers detained in Baramulla for allegedly glorifying militancy

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Thirteen teachers of a private school in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town were detained last week for allegedly ‘glorifying militancy’ and motivating students to become militants. Videos doing the rounds on social media showed 13–14-year-old boys being encouraged to act as militants somewhere in the forests of Zandafaran, where they had gone for a school excursion in the first week of July. As some boys played songs eulogising death, some students act as militants, ready to carry out an attack. The school management refused to talk on the matter. Chief education…

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Rebels release another group photo 2 months after last of ‘Burhan’s Boys’ killed

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The new group photo came just a week after Hizbul flooded the social media with individual pictures of around 18 young men holding guns on the second death anniversary of Burhan Wani on July 8. Jammu and Kashmir police are trying to identify 14 young men in a group photograph that militants released earlier this week and which a senior police officer described a ‘leaderless troupe’. Two months after last of the active militants who posed in a famous photograph with Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed militants have…

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