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    • Posts Tagged ‘violence’

    Nawaz Sharif Stages Comeback in Landmark Pakistan Election

    Supporters of the PML-N hold a portrait of party leader Nawaz Sharif as they attend an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi

    ISLAMABAD: Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and was heading for a third term as Pakistan's prime minister. The polls were a landmark, marking the first time one elected government will replace another. But the vote failed to realise the hopes of many that dynastic politics would end after years of misrule and corruption. The wealthy steel magnate from the pivotal Punjab province held off a challenge from former cricket star Imran Khan who had hoped to...

    Posted 8 days ago.

    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.

    Kashmir Turbulence Hits Tourism to 'Paradise'

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    Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: As the year 2012 drew to a close, the feeling across Kashmir was one of hope. Another good year, at least from the point of view of businesses in the state, meant that they could look forward to an even better 2013. Until February 9. That morning the central government hanged Mohammad Afzal Guru, the main accused in the 2001 Parliament attack case and a Kashmiri in Delhi's Tihar Jail, triggering political turmoil and a spiral of violence that culminated in...

    Posted 66 days ago.

    After Years of Nonviolent Protest, Could Kashmiris Return to The Gun?

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    Parvaiz Bukhari Heavily-armed rebels attacked a police compound in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing five Indian paramilitaries on Wednesday before the government forces killed the two attackers. The attack that also injured five other personnel of the federal Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was claimed by Kashmir’s largest pro-Pakistan militant group, the Hizbul Mujahideen. Kashmiri leaders are warning that the region's youth may be taking to arms again...

    Posted 67 days ago.

    Three militants killed in Kashmir clashes

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    SRINAGAR: Three separatist  guerrillas were killed and three soldiers were injured in  two separate gunfights in north  Kashmir Thursday, police said. "Three unidentified militants were killed in two separate encounters with police and army in Sopore (52 kms from here)," a police spokesperson said. While two militants were killed in gun battle during an anti-insurgency operation in Mundaji village, one militant was was shot dead in Chaerhaar village, he said. "Searches are going on although the firing has...

    Posted 157 days ago.

    Kashmir angry over 'limited reportage' of human rights violations

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    SRINAGAR:  A group of Kashmir residents on Tuesday lambasted what they called editorial decisions of Indian media to 'blackout a report documenting role of 500 security officials as alleged perpetrators' in 214 cases of human rights violations since armed rebellion erupted in the state in 1989. A statement signed by over a dozen human-rights activists, academics, lawyers and journalists, has deplored the "biased reaction of the media" after International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice and the...

    Posted 159 days ago.

    Two decades on, Kashmir mother to search her son 'till death'

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR: Her struggle to find her son is as old as the armed rebellion of Kashmir. Even though militancy has been on wane for the past 23-years of conflict but her fight to find her son is still going strong. Parveena Ahanger, 55, will continue search for her missing son till ‘she can breathe’. “These 23 years seem, as if, just 23 days. His long face, chubby cheeks and sparkling eyes are etched in my memory,” she said at a hunger strike on Monday in capital Srinagar...

    Posted 160 days ago.

    "Gang-rape": Police launch manhunt in south Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Police in south Kashmir have launched a manhunt to nab four people who are accused of kidnapping and allegedly gang-raping a girl, an incident which led to protests in the area, police said Monday. Crime against women, rare in Kashmir in recent past, has increased significantly as more than two decades of strife is now giving way to normal life. A girl from Shopian district of southern valley was found naked and unconscious by villagers in the neigbouring Kulgam district on Sunday morning. She said...

    Posted 189 days ago.

    Kashmir moving out from darkness into light: Omar

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    SRINAGAR, Oct 21: War-weary Kashmir is coming out of darkness of violence and disturbance into the light of peace and development, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah said on Sunday. However, he added that some people are frustrated to see this improvement and are bent upon creating disturbance, tension and snatch sense of security from people. "They try to use both the gun and the voice to develop fear in the minds of people and drag the state back into the darkness from which it is coming out steadily," Omar said on...

    Posted 210 days ago.

    ‘Portraying Kashmir as a place of violence is unfair’

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    SRINAGAR, Oct 19: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the abode of grate heritage, the Valley got unfortunately portrayed as a place of violence in last 20 to 25 years besmearing its image. "Despite inroads and attempts to disbalance this characteristic of Kashmir, it (Kashmir) withstood all onslaughts  and is living and emerging stronger with the passage of time," Oamr said while addressing a function after he inaugurated the office of Indian Centre for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at...

    Posted 212 days ago.