Troops killed three including a young school student

Srinagar, July 04: Police and CRPF tortured and thrown into the river an 11-year old boy, Khalid Sharief Mir, three days ago during protest demonstrations whose body was recovered from river Jhelum triggered protests in Sopore town. 

Special Operations Group and troops of 21 Rashtriya Rifles killed 2 youth at Nagni and Tand Mohalla localities in Wedder Bala, in Zachaldara area of Handwara.

PSA against Al-Umar chief’s teenaged nephew

Srinagar, July 04: In the backdrop of a juvenile Rainawari boy languishing in Kuthua jail under the draconian Public Safety Act, nephew of Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, alias Latram - chief commander of Al-Umar Mujahideen and son of a man disappeared since last nineteen years, has been detained under PSA.  

Official sources told Press Bureau of India that the administration has invoked PSA against Adil Ahmad Misger, 19; son of Sirajudin Misger who has been kept lodged in police station Nowhatta since Thursday.

With Tariq’s death our world fell apart: Family

Baramulla, July 04: The family members of Tariq Ahmad Malik, the only breadwinner of the family who was killed in police firing, are shattered by his untimely death.

“For us the world has fallen apart,” said Tariq’s elderly father, Saifudin Malik with tears rolling down his cheeks.

Tariq, who was the only breadwinner of the family comprising his parents and three brothers and a sister, was shot in the abdomen. The bullet had pierced through his spinal cord and he succumbed to injuries in the hospital.

Fate of Dooru boy unknown

Srinagar, July 4: The Elaqai Welfare Committee (EWC) formed by residents of Chakpath Larkipora in Dooru to seek whereabouts of Basharat Ahma Bhat, who was subjected to enforced custodial disappearance by army on Sunday said  Basharat Ahmad, 16, son of Muhammad Maqbool Bhat disappeared in an army camp in Larkipora where the troops had called him on Sunday morning.

Indian troopskilled father from unborn child

Srinagar, July 4: In Baramulla Lali Jan of Khanpora is carrying in her womb a child who was orphaned before birth: the CRPF troopers murdered the father on June 30 during indiscriminate firing on peaceful protestors.

“I don’t know if I should really give birth to the child or kill myself; the troops snatched the father of the child even before it could see light of the world,” said Lali whose 24-year old husband, Fayaz Ahmad Gojri, a labourer, was killed by the troopers during a peaceful demonstration over the sexual harassment of a woman by police in the town.

"Half-Widows" in Kashmir

Srinagar, July 04: For the past twelve years, Naseema Mehja-ud-din has been waiting for news of her missing husband. Naseema says he was picked up by the Indian troops one night in 1997. A mother of two, she is one of Kashmir's hundreds of "half-widows" — women whose husbands disappeared after arrest by Indian armed forces.

Two dozen injured in Srinagar, Baramulla areas

Srinagar, July 03: Indian police and paramilitary forces used batons and tear gas to break up fresh anti-India protests in Kashmir on Friday, with more than two dozen people injured in the clashes.

The injuries were reported in the Srinagar city and Baramulla when troops and police men used brute force to disperse thousands of protesters who had defied a restrictions and curfew.

"In all 20 protesters and four policemen were injured," one police officer said.

Two news photographers covering the protests were also injured.

Life remains paralysed in Baramulla, Sopore, Shopian, Pulwama, Dooru

Srinagar, July 03: Life remained crippled in Baramulla, Sopore, Shopain, Dooru and Pulwama areas Sopore and Baramulla is still under curfew to prevent further demonstrations against continued human rights violations by Indian troops while in Shopian 34 day of protest strike was observed,

In interior Srinagar, people of Bohrikadal, Nawab Bazar and Gojwara staged protest against the paramilitary forces said that the troops entered into their houses and ransacked it on Thursday night and booked on young boy under draconian Public Safety Act.

One person killed in Kupwara

Srinagar, July 03: Indian troops killed one person during search operations in Kupwara district, today.Rashtriya Rifles killed the youth at Wadderbala forest in Zachaldara. The operation was continuing when last reports came in.

Meanwhile, Indian Army on Friday has claimed recovered the bodies of six of the eight persons who were buried alive in an avalanche in Gurez area in March.

An Indian defence spokesman told media in Srinagar, they got buried alive in the avalanche during heavy snow conditions in March.

Indian intransigence

The Nation Edit: July 3, 2009
THERE seems no logical reason why the USA should go on mollycoddling India's prejudices against Pakistan, a key ally in its War on Terror, unless it is taking its ridiculous great-power claims seriously, or hopes thus to gain access to a market for its corporations.

Little son’ of four sisters is no more

Baramulla, July 3: In Baramulla, people who were consoling Abdul Rashid Mir of Tawheed Gunj  over the death of his only son Amir Rashid  said that the heaviest burden on his shoulders was the coffin of his son.

Abdul Rashid carried his heaviest burden on Wednesday when he shouldered the coffin of his son, Amir Mir, shot dead by CRPF troopers on June 29.“The last words he told me were ‘I am going to college’. These words still reverberate in my ears,” Rashid said.

Orphan siblings lose little father

Srinagar, June 03: A family of victim in Baramulla has said that Indian troops of CRPF has snatched and killed our father during indiscriminate firing on peaceful protestors in the town on June 20.

The fatal Indian police bullet that was fired at a mob on Monday evening, two young relatives have lost their little father, Saleem Rashid Ahangar. “Both our parents left us long back. It was Saleem Baya who was the father figure. The Indian police have snatched our little father from us,” says his 22-year-old sister Masarat Jan.

Bhat condemns killing of four youth, use of force

Srinagar, July 02: In Srinagar, APHC leader and Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement Chairman, Zaffar Akbar Bhat has strongly condemned the killing of four youth by Indian troops firing in Baramulla town and custodial disappearance of a youth, Basharat Ahmad Yatoo in Dooru.

No Strike on Friday :APHC

Srinagar, July 02: In Srinagar, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that there would be no strike on Friday and called for protests to show solidarity with the people of Shopian and Baramulla.