SRINAGAR, July 31 (2010):Police opened fire on Saturday to disperse thousands of people protesting against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing a child and wounding 25 demonstrators. Muslim-majority Kashmir has been rocked by a series of pro-independence protests in the last six weeks and at least 22 people, mostly protesters, have been killed by security forces. The authorities have imposed an on-and-off curfew in Kashmir, at the core of a dispute between India and Pakistan. Fresh...

SRINAGAR, July 30 (2010):Police on Friday fired at thousands of people protesting against Indian rule in Kashmir, killing two demonstrators, officials said, in the latest flare-up of violence in the disputed Himalayan region. At least 19 people, mostly stone-throwing protesters, have been killed by security forces over the last six weeks, when Muslim-majority Kashmir has seen the largest pro-independence demonstrations in two years. The violence has led the authorities to impose an on-and-off curfew in parts of...

SRINAGAR, July. 24 (2010): Hundreds of protesters defied security restrictions to march through the streets in north Kashmir's Palhallan town even as authorities reimposed curfew in Kupwara and Pulwama towns Saturday morning after violence a day earlier. A senior police officer said curfew had to be reimposed in the frontier north Kashmir's Kupwara and south Kashmir's Pulwama towns following Friday evening violence. Policemen and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were deployed in strength early in the...

SRINAGAR, jULY 23 (2010): Curfew was clamped in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora and Kupwara districts following a separatist call to hold demonstrations in protest against the killing of several youth. The hardline Hurriyat group, headed by Syed Ali Geelani, has called for a march to the Khanqah-i-Moula mosque area in the old city and for post Friday prayer protests across the Valley. Police and paramilitary force have been deployed in strength to maintain law and order. Restrictions on the movement of the people...

SRINAGAR, July 12 (2010): Politicians were meeting on Monday to find a way to end weeks of violent anti-government protests in Indian Kashmir which have killed 15 people, dragged in the army and locked down the disputed region. A separatist strike has kept Kashmir on the boil, shutting down much of a region at the core of a dispute between India and Pakistan. Both claim the Kashmir region in full but rule it in part. However, the region's main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) stayed away, urging the state...

SRINAGAR, July 10 (2010):Authorities on Saturday re-imposed a curfew several hours ahead of schedule in some areas of Kashmir, including parts of the main city Srinagar, in response to protesters attacking security forces with stones, police said. Authorities late on Friday had lifted a four-day long curfew that was introduced after some of the largest protests in two years against India rule. The curfew was to have come back into force later on Saturday evening, but was brought forward after police and protesters...

SRINAGAR, July 8 (2010): Authorities extended a curfew to new parts of India-controlled Kashmir on Thursday after the army moved to take control of the region's summer capital for the first time in almost two decades to quell massive protests. Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar was kept under curfew for a third-straight day as soldiers patrolled streets. The protests were fuelled by the death of a 17-year-old student hit by a teargas shell fired by police during an anti-India demonstration in mid-June. New Delhi has...

SRINAGAR, July 7 (2010):Authorities deployed the army in Kashmir's summer capital for the first time in nearly two decades on Wednesday to quell huge anti-India protests that have killed 15 people and threaten to destabilise the region. The soldiers were called in after police failed to control weeks of street protests in a disputed region whose peace is crucial for relations between India and Pakistan. Most of the deaths were in police firing. While locals say the protests are spontaneous, the Indian government has...

SRINAGAR, July 6 (2010):Police fired at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir on Tuesday, killing three civilians, authorities said, the latest violence in a region at the core of a dispute between India and Pakistan. The deaths of at least 14 people, mostly protesters, in the last three weeks have triggered the biggest anti-India demonstrations in two years across Muslim-majority Kashmir valley. Many locals blame security forces for the deaths. "The fresh protests broke out when a body of a teenager was...