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    • Posts Tagged ‘army’

    Day 2: Shutdown, Clashes in North Kashmir's Baramulla

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    SRINAGAR: Police have used force to disperse demonstrators in north Kashmir's Baramulla town where a shutdown is in force for the second day today (Thursday). A large number of youth took to the streets in the old quarters of the town shouting slogans to demand that a camp of the security forces in the area be removed. Witnesses said the angry youth tried to move towards the civil lines when police and paramilitaries stopped them at a bridge, leading to violent clashes. Police fired tear smoke shells and pellets to...

    Posted 38 days ago.

    Soldier Killed, Five Wounded in Accidental Blast in Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR: A soldier was killed and at least five others were wounded in an accidental blast inside a camp in north Kashmir Thursday morning. A senior police officer said a grenade went off accidentally inside a camp of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles (RR), wounding six troopers. The injured personnel, the police officer said, were evacuated to hospital for treatment. Sources say the explosion occurred while the camp was being cleaned. Security forces have launched a massive search operation in Kupwara...

    Posted 39 days ago.

    '99 Magisterial Inquiries, 10 CoI Since 1990, Action Taken Report Awaited'

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    SRINAGAR: Ninety-nine magisterial probes were ordered and ten commissions of inquiries constituted since 1990 to investigate into various killings, the government said on Friday. An armed conflict between separatist militants and security forces began in 1989. Tens of thousands of people have died since then. Law Minister Mir Saifullah told the legislative assembly in Jammu that out of 99 magisterial inquiries ordered 81 had been finalised. Eighteen inquiries were still going on, he said. The minister, however,...

    Posted 44 days ago.

    Intruder Killed on Kashmir Frontier: Army

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    JAMMU: Th army on Monday said it has foiled an infiltration bid at the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. One person has been killed in the incident which took place in Rajouri district, they said. A defence spokesman told the Press Trust of India that the army detected some suspicious movement in the Pokhra area on SUnday. They fired at the intruder who jumped into a drain to flee but was killed. The army has identified the slain person as Mohammed Maqsood, in his mid thirties, a...

    Posted 55 days ago.

    Aug 2012 Standoff: 5 Army Soldiers Face Dismissal

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    NEW DELHI: Five Army soldiers face sack orders while other actions have been recommended by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) against 55 other personnel including the Commanding Officer of a unit in a case of indiscipline in Samba in Jammu and Kashmir last year. The case relates to an incident in the 16 Cavalry Unit in Samba last year where officers and soldiers were engaged in a face-off after a soldier committed suicide on August 8. The CoI into the Samba indiscipline incident has been completed in which five soldiers have...

    Posted 68 days ago.

    No Plan to Withdraw Army From Kashmir: Govt

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    NEW DELHI: Government has no plan to withdraw the Army from Jammu and Kashmir as security forces are deployed according to the overall security situation, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. "No, sir. There is no move to withdraw the Army from Jammu and Kashmir," Minister of State for Home RPN Singh said, replying to a question on whether government was contemplating to withdraw the Army from the border state. The Minister said the deployment of security forces at any point of time is a matter of review of the...

    Posted 81 days ago.

    KunanPoshpora 'Mass Rape': Kashmiri Students Observe Anniversary

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    Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR: A group of students on Saturday held a candlelight protest to demand justice for three dozen women who were allegedly raped by security forces in north Kashmir on this day 22 years ago. The women belonged to Kunan and Poshpora villages in the frontier district of Kupwara. This evening nearly 15 students sat at the Press colony in Srinagar, candles lit in front of them, and held a banner which read: "Justice for Kunan-Poshpora". One of the students, Shayan Nabi...

    Posted 85 days ago.

    Restrictions Continue In Parts Of South Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR: Restrictions continued for the second day today in parts of the south Kashmir where a fresh clash erupted yesterday following death of a 60-year-old woman allegedly after security forces raided a house. However, Army and police have denied any such raid being conducted particularly the house where the woman had died while some political parties have demanded judicial probe into the incident. Residents of Khudwani and Qaimoh in Kulgam district of south Kashmir alleged that they were not allowed to move out of...

    Posted 90 days ago.

    Army Says Pushes Back Infiltrators On Kashmir Frontier

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    SRINAGAR: The army says it has foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, the second such incident in more than two days and also since top military commanders of both the countries agreed to defuse alarming tensions. The incident happened in Rajouri district. "Army troops during midnight observed a suspicious movement of about 4 to 5 people in Hamirpur area of Balakote sector in Bhimber Gali Brigade of Rajouri district," S N Acharya, Jammu-based public relation...

    Posted 91 days ago.

    India Returns Body Of Dead Pakistani Soldier

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    SRINAGAR: The Indian army says it has returned the body of a Pakistani soldier who was killed after he strayed across the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The Pakistani soldier was killed in a gun battle on Thursday night after the Indian army opened fire when it detected "suspicious movement" in Laam sector in Rajouri, it said. The body was returned to Pakistan Army personnel this evening "with military respects". "On 15 Feb at 1000 hrs, the Pakistan DGMO made an unscheduled call...

    Posted 94 days ago.