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  • Posts Tagged ‘shopian’

    Shutdown in Kashmir marks Shopian anniversary

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    SRINAGAR, May 30: Shops and business remained closed and people stayed indoors in most of the Kashmir valley on Wednesday to mark the third death anniversary of two women who were allegedly raped and murdered in south Kashmir's Shopian District in 2009, witnesses said. They said hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel patrolled deserted streets in the valley to prevent protests on the anniversary. Traffic was thin on roads in the city and schools across the city also remained shut and the commercial nerve centre...

    Posted 361 days ago.

    Movie tells a grisly Kashmir rape and murder story

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    Naseer Ganai SRINAGAR, May 26: A feature film based on the horrific rape and murder of two women in Shopian was screened at St Lawrence Art Centre in Portland, US, highlighting the grisly crime that took place on May 29 three years ago. Chris Giamo and his partner Kelsey Kobic made the film, simply named In Shopian, following an exhaustive interview with Shakeel Ahmad, whose wife Neelofar Jan (22) and sister Asiya (17) were the victims of the controversial Shopian incident of 2009. Shot in...

    Posted 365 days ago.

    Victims of a forgotten struggle: Kashmiri boy’s family battles fate

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    Rifat Mohidin SRINAGAR, May 25: In a decrepit two storeyed house in the congested Maisuma locality of Srinagar Yawar Ibrahim Bhat has been lying on his bed, paralysed, for three years now. He struggles to speak and only gestures to every visitor to his home. “Kale” (head), he mumbles repeatedly in desperation, which only his mother, Gulshan, understands. “He wants to say that please cure my head,” she says as she starts crying. “He was a smart boy. He was not like...

    Posted 366 days ago.