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AFSPA goes from Meghalaya, restricted in Arunachal, Call for lifting from Kashmir Valley grows louder

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The Union Home Ministry has removed Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from Meghalaya and reduced it to eight police stations in Arunachal Pradesh, an official said on Monday. “AFSPA was totally withdrawn from all areas of Meghalaya from April 1. In Arunachal, it is down from 16 police stations to eight,” the official said. The Act has however been extended by another six months in three eastern districts of Arunachal Pradesh — Tirap, Longding and Changlang — which border Myanmar and specific areas under eight police stations of seven…

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Student protests continue across Kashmir, Afridi asks students not to shun studies

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The students continued protests across the Valley against the rape and murder of 8-year-old nomad girl in Kathua despite higher secondary schools and colleges remaining closed. The students took to roads in Ajas, Mantrigam, and Sumbal areas in Bandipora district to stage protest against the rape and murder of minor girl. The students of High School Mantrigam marched to Bandipora town amidst pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. The protestors clashed with policemen near DC office, who fired tear smoke shells to disperse them. At least four students sustained minor injuries while…

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PDP, BJP partners in crime, Kashmiris may have to pay with blood: Tassaduq Mufti

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Although Mufti is not the party’s official spokesman, his views carry weight because besides being a minister in the PDP-BJP government, he is also son of the late PDP patron and former CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and brother of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. In perhaps the strongest indictment by the Peoples Democratic Party of its alliance with the BJP since it came to power in 2015, J&K Tourism Minister Tassaduq Mufti has said that the two parties have “ended up being partners in a crime (for which) an entire generation…

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Four Civilians die, Two battling for life saving rebels in Kulgam

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When the sound of a few gunshots came out of the noise of rains beating tin roofs of the Khudwani houses late on Tuesday evening, it residents, about to go to sleep, stood still as the shooting grew more steady and intense. Three Lashkar militants had found themselves under siege by the government forces with a top commander of the guerrilla outfit also trapped in a house in the Wani Mohalla locality, in Kulgam. The shooting ebbed a little as the night rolled on, and the forces closed off all…

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Mehbooba meets Modi, seeks help to end violence in valley

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Three days after appealing to the country’s leadership to listen to the voices of pain from the state, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. She apprised him about the overall situation in Jammu and Kashmir. During the meeting, the Chief Minister stressed finding ways and means to end the cycle of violence in the state by dealing with alienation among the youth. She said the people, who had suffered immensely during the turmoil in the past three decades, were looking up…

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Kashmir Shuts to protest Shopian killings, Solidarity Day observed across Pakistan

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A complete shutdown was observed across Kashmir while youth continued to engage in clashes with forces through the day in parts of Valley in protest to the killings in Shopian last Sunday in which 13 militants and 4 civilians were killed. Markets remained shut while schools and colleges were closed. There were curbs on movement of people in parts of Srinagar city to prevent protests called by Joint resistance leadership (JRL) over militant and civilian killings in Shopian. Contingents of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed…

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Student protests rock valley, Clashes in four colleges over Shopian killings

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Eight students injured in Srinagar Girl students resort to stone pelting in city centre  Protesters burn police picket Kashmir University pupils boycott classes Massive protests rocked Kashmir valley on Thursday as students took to streets and clashed with the forces. A security picket was torched by angry students who engaged in stone pelting with the forces. The protests started from Bemina Degree College Srinagar and spread to other colleges of Srinagar as well. Students from various schools and colleges in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district held protest demonstrations against the recent…

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Bloody Sunday: 12 Militants, 4 Civilians, 3 Troopers killed, 200 Injured in South Kashmir

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54 hit by bullets, 38 receive pellet injuries Thousands of people attend funeral prayers of slain militants At least twelve militants, three troopers and four civilians were killed in separate gunfights between militants and forces in South Kashmir on Sunday, triggering clashes in the area. Sources said joint cordon and search operations (CASO) were launched at Dragad and Kachdoora villages in Shopian and Peth Dailgam in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. They said army, police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) launched CASO at Dragad at around 10 pm…

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J&K has been left alone by the Country: Mehbooba Mufti

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Mehbooba Mufti said Jammu and Kashmir is the crown of the country but in the past few years it has lost its sheen. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday the state has been left alone by the country to deal with the difficult situation it is going through. The chief minister made the remarks while addressing the 64th convention and exhibition of Travel Agents Association of India or TAAI in Srinagar. “Jammu and Kashmir is going through difficult times. It has affected tourism not only in…

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Hurriyat Chief, Ashraf Sehrai’s son joins Hizb, won’t appeal for his return: Family

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Days after the new Hurriyat chief called ISIS ideology ‘venomous’ and anti-Kashmir, his son went missing Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief decides not to pursue police complaint Junaid Ashraf, son of the newly elected chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has joined terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, Jammu and Kashmir police said on Saturday. The information comes barely 24 hours after the separatist leader filing a missing report for his son. “Junaid Ashraf, the 26-year-old son of Sehrai, has joined the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group,” a police official said. Earlier this week, Sehrai was…

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