Abhishek Saha

Bring youngsters who have left home back to mainstream: Mehbooba

At the Police Commemoration Day event in Srinagar, Mehbooba spoke at length on how teenagers were “used” as shields in the ongoing agitation.

J-K govt sacks 12 employees for alleged anti-national activities

The Jammu and Kashmir government has issued orders to dismiss over a dozen of its employees for their alleged involvement in the ongoing unrest, a top official said on Thursday.

UN experts urge India to release Kashmiri rights activist Khurram Parvez

A group of United Nations experts on Wednesday called on the India to immediately release prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who was arrested last month.

Baramulla attackers used ‘civilians’ as human shields to escape: Police

Militants who attacked a paramilitary camp in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla on Sunday night used darkness and the presence of civilians “as shield” to escape, police said.

Always living in fear: Villagers near LoC have painful memories of war

Residents of villages on the Line of Control have painful memories of previous wars and conflict on the border. Now, with tensions escalating along the border, they fear for their safety

Apple farmers in Kashmir battle odds, govt claims exports higher this year

The unrest in Kashmir had hit the Valley’s apple farmers in multiple ways right from the initial harvesting stage to transportation even as officials say the export has been higher than in the corresponding period last year.

Fear of war, violence grips Valley, many doubt army action

Fear of war, violence grips Kashmir after army’s surgical strikes across LoC

The response to the news of surgical strikes by the Indian army across the Line of Control was mixed in Kashmir: for some it was “panic” for the fear of a “war” while others questioned the “truth” of the news in the light of Pakistan’s denial.

Dams will not flout Indus Waters Treaty: Experts

Focus on 3 hydel projects to supply water to J-K as govt reviews Indus treaty

The government wants to expedite work on three hydro power projects in Sawalkote, Pakal Dul and Bursar on the Chenab and its tributary in Jammu and Kashmir after it reviewed the Indus Waters Treaty.

For Valley’s youth, police jobs trump ‘Azaadi’

Despite anti-India sentiment, rush for police jobs in Kashmir

Farooq* holds a grudge against Indian security forces for the rights violations they allegedly commit in the Valley, but he was seen standing in queue at the district police lines on Monday morning.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez’s arrest opens up can of worms

Khurram Parvez has been the most prominent face of human rights movement in Kashmir in recent times and his arrest under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA) has attracted condemnation and raised questions on the state’s procedures to tackle unrests.

Militant gunned down in Valley

J&K HC declines to ban use of pellet guns

Rights activist Khurram Parvez shifted to Jammu prison

Prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez has been shifted to Kot Bhalwal prison in Jammu, even as his family and lawyers said they have not received an official copy of the order of detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA).

J-K: One militant killed in Bandipora encounter, gunfight underway

The gunfight broke out in Aragam Chitti Bandi village in the district after security personel were tipped off about the presence of separatist militants there.

J-K HC refuses to ban pellet guns, justifies ‘force’ used in volatile situations

Indian paramilitary trooper holds a pellet gun after clashes with Kashmiri protestors in Srinagar on July 23, 2016.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez booked under Public Safety Act: Sources

Charges under the Public Safety Act (PSA) were slapped on human rights activist Khurram Parvez on Wednesday, sources said.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez detained even after court orders release

Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez continues to be lodged in a police station in the city even after a Srinagar court ordered his release.

Srinagar court orders release of human rights activist Khurram Parvez

A sessions court in Srinagar ordered the release of human rights activist Khurram Parvez who was put in preventive detention last week as international support for Parvez grows.

Strict curfew after fresh clashes

Civilians in Valley may bear the brunt of army base raid

Civilians in Kashmir may bear the brunt of Uri army base attack

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti condemned the Uri attack as another attempt to destabilise the Valley, adding that it’s always the people of the Valley who lose in the hostility between the two nations. She said that the attack was aimed at creating a war-like situation between India and Pakistan.

Infiltration in focus after militants attack army camp in Uri

The gunning down of four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists who attacked Uri in a deadly suicide attack has refocused attention on increasing infiltration from across the line of control.

Youngsters blinded by pellets defiant, say azadi still in sight

Despite injuries, Kashmir pellet victims stay defiant, yearn for ‘azadi’

Pellet guns, a “non-lethal” weapon used for crowd control in Kashmir, has killed at least eight and maimed thousands in the ongoing unrest that was sparked by the killing of insurgent leader Burhan Wani in July.

Protests in Srinagar after boy dies of pellet injuries, toll reaches 86

Protests erupted in Harwan on the outskirts of Srinagar on Saturday morning after the pellet-ridden body of a youth was recovered late last night in the area.

A quiet Eid in strife-torn Kashmir

Kashmir to have a silent and sullen Eid after weeks of strife, violence

Clashes with security forces has killed 75 people by unofficial estimates and left 10,000 injured.