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Pellet terror continues, Aerial firing in Pulwama, Clashes in Sopore, Srinagar

April 29, 2017 Editor

Forces Fire Pellets In Eyes of Rajouri Kadal Youth Massive protests erupted in Pulwama town on Friday. At least four persons were injured in the resultant clashes. Reports said that soon after congregational prayers, people staged pro-freedom protests outside the mosques. As government forces tried to disperse the protesters using force, they retaliated by stones. Forces lobbed tear gas shells. As the clashes intensified, the forces resorted to aerial firing. Soon more clashes erupted in Rajpora chowk, Muran chowk, Tahab chowk, Chatapora, etc. The whole Pulwama town was engulfed by…

Fidayeen storm army camp in Kupwara, Forces open fire on protesters demanding bodies of militants

April 28, 2017April 27, 2017 Editor

3 Army men, including captain, 2 attackers killed Civilian killed in Army firing on protesters demanding bodies of militants Three army men including a captain were killed and five others injured in a pre-dawn fidayeen attack on army’s Panzgam garrison near Line of Control (LoC) in border district of Kupwara on Thursday. Two militants were also killed in the retaliatory firing. A civilian was also killed in Army firing on protesters who were demanding bodies of militants. Defence spokesperson, Colonel Rajesh Kalia said two heavily armed militants stormed the army…

Demand for splitting J&K into 3 regions gets louder

April 26, 2017 Editor

Jammu pushes for separate statehood, Ladakh insists on UT status The prolonged unrest in Kashmir has deepened the regional divide in the relatively peaceful Jammu and Ladakh regions as the demand for separating the two regions from the Kashmir valley has gained momentum. The Jammu region has been pushing for statehood while Ladakh has been demanding UT status. People and representatives of Jammu and Ladakh contend that they have been suffering “immensely” due to the recurrent violence, uncertainty and “growing radicalism” in Kashmir. “We have been suffering due to the…

As Students clashes with forces, City centre turns into battlefield

April 25, 2017 Editor

2 students, 12 cops injured; 6 students detained Govt forces resort to tear gas shelling, aerial firing to quell protests Student, photojournalist, woman injured; SSP Srinagar among 12 cops hurt Cops showed utmost restraint: Police Massive clashes were witnessed between students and government forces in the heart of Srinagar city on Monday as colleges re-opened after remaining closed for a week in Kashmir valley. Government forces used tear gas and water cannons to prevent students of SP Higher Secondary School and SP College from taking out a protest march and…

Alliance in trouble as PDP, BJP drift apart

April 22, 2017 Editor

“When we arrest stone-pelters, we face enormous political pressure to release them because some of the stone-pelters are from both the PDP and the NC. Both parties use their own influence to subvert law and order,” From their political philosophy to socio-cultural idiom, every innate fault line within the PDP-BJP alliance is proving to be antithetical to governance and security in Jammu and Kashmir. Two years after they come to power in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP and the PDP are locked into a war of words both publicly and…

MP adivasis, India’s slingshot experts, want to take on Kashmiri stone-pelters

April 20, 2017 Editor

The adivasis want the govt to form a ‘Gofan battalion’. Worried over the safety of the security forces in the Kashmir valley, adivasi youth from the Jhabua district have volunteered to face the stone-pelters with their ‘Gofan’. Gofan is a looped cord with a knitted bag on one end, similar to a slingshot. Pebbles are placed in the bag and the cord is swung in the air and the small stones are released towards the target. It looks deceptively simple but in reality is a very powerful weapon. The adivasis…

Colleges across valley to remain shut today amid fear of violence, Protests reach Banihal

April 19, 2017 Editor

Students block Sgr-Jmu highway for 7 hrs, Civil Society calls Banihal bandh today Admin closes colleges, higher secondary schools for 2 days Fearing more protests, the government today extended the closure of colleges across Kashmir by one more day even as the University of Kashmir witnessed protests by girl students over police action at Government Degree College, Pulwama, on Saturday. “All colleges and SP Higher Secondary School (in Srinagar) will remain shut on Wednesday,” said Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Baseer Khan. “All schools will, however, reopen tomorrow,” he said. After widespread…

Massive Student protests rock Kashmir, Mobile Internet snapped

April 18, 2017 Editor

Scores of students injured in clashes with police and paramilitary forces Mobile Internet off again as protests grip Valley Cops exercised maximum restraint: Police Massive protests rocked Kashmir on Monday as students across the valley took to streets in an unprecedented show of solidarity with the students of Pulwama degree college who were wounded in clashes with government forces few days back. Scores of students were injured during Monday’s clashes as police and paramilitary forces used batons and fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters after demonstrations…