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Indian Artillery attacks AJ Kashmir villages, loses nine..
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SIX CIVILIANS and 1PAK SOLDIER KILLED Pakistan RETALITES KILLING 9(nine) INDIAN SOLDIERS Indian Artillery attacks AJ Kashmir villages, loses nine troops in reprisal MUZAFFARABAD: Six civilians and a soldier of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom while two soldiers and a
Read Full ArticleUS Holds Kashmir as Disputed Territory
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WASHINGTON: US Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells informed a Congressional panel on Tuesday that India’s annexation of the occupied lands has not changed America’s position on held Kashmir, as it continues to consider it a disputed territory. “We consider the Line of Control (LoC) a de facto line separating two parts of Kashmir,” sai
Read Full ArticlePOLICE BLOCKS PROTESTERS MARCH TOWARDS INDIAN..
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POLICE BLOCKS PROTESTERS MARCH TOWARDS INDIAN HELD KASHMIR Pakistani Kashmirisr ally to express solidarity with Indian Kashmiris. Police have blocked a march by thousands of people in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir who wanted
Read Full Article14 Injured in Kashmir Grenade Explosion
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Srinagar, Oct 06 At least 14 persons were injured on Saturday in a grenade explosion outside the District Magistrate’s office in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, police said.The injured included and a traffic policeman. Police sources said that militants hurled the grenade at the entrance of the office complex at around 11 a.m. Of the injured, one of th
Read Full ArticleUN chief calls for respect for human rights in Kashmir (IOK
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UN chief calls for respect for human rights in Kashmir (IOK) UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Wednesday underscored the need for respecting human rights in Indian Occupied Kashmir, which is under repressive lockdown for over six weeks now, and urged In
Read Full ArticleUN chief Guterres offers to mediate Kashmir issue
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September 20, 2019 United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday has once again offered to mediate the escalating Kashmir issue between Pakistan and India. The UN secretary-general has emphasized on the need for respecting human rights in Indian Occupied Kashmir which is under stric
Read Full ArticleKashmir group seeks UN probe into torture by India troops
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A prominent rights group in occupied Kashmir is advocating for the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what it calls the endemic use of torture by Indian forces who have faced a decades-long anti-India uprising in the disputed region. The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) on Monday released a
Read Full ArticleIndia's tribal women see little hope in election
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For years they've been told about the power they can wield with their votes, and how elections can bring so much change to this sprawling, often-chaotic nation. But few of these women, marooned at the fringes of Indian society, believe such talk anymore. They've been hardened by decades of forgotten promises, and by the countless politicians who showed up before elections with flowery w
Read Full ArticleKashmir’s Information Blockade-A Report by the Network of Women in Media
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A Report by the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and the Free Speech Collective (FSC) A month after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, on August 5, 2019, the continuing shutdown of communication in the Kashmir valley has resulted in the throttling of independent media. Laxmi Murth
Read Full ArticleICJ condemns Indian revocation of Article 370
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Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard at a roadblock at Maisuma locality in Srinagar The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has condemned the legislative steps taken by India in occupied Kashmir and urged the Indian government to "respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of people in Jammu and Kashmir." India rushed
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