SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Unknown attackers shot dead two members of a government-funded civilian militia in the Jammu province of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Kuldeep Kumar and Nazir Ahmed were abducted from Kishtwar area by members of Kashmir Tigers pro-liberation outfit. The incident evoked condemnation from the region’s Lt. Gove...
SRINAGAR, Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The newly elected government in the Indian-occupied Muslim majority territory of Kashmir has passed a resolution asking India to restore the disputed region’s special autonomous status that was scrapped in 2019 by the ruling Hindu nationalist government. More than 50 members of the 90-member le...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – At least six construction workers, two of them non-natives, and a doctor were killed in the Indian-occupied Kashmir over the weekend, officials said. The killings were reported at a construction site in Gagangir area of central Ganderbal district. According to the officials, the workers were working on ...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The administration of the Indian occupation in Jammu and Kashmir has granted land ownership rights to refugees who had migrated to the region from then West Pakistan. Thousands of refugees migrated to Indian-occupied Kashmir in 1947 as well as after the 1965 India-Pakistan War. The Indian administrative counc...
SRINAGAR, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Police in the Indian-occupied Kashmir have arrested several Muharram mourners for shouting pro-Palestine slogans and raising a Palestinian flag during a procession on Monday, a prominent Shia leader and member of the Indian parliament has said. Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, a member of parliament ...
India’s top court has dismissed review petitions, upholding its earlier ruling endorsing the federal government’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, which is claimed by Pakistan. The court heard arguments on numerous petitions challenging the legality of the federal legislation. Last December, the court upheld the lega...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the Indian parliament’s legislation on the future of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dubbing it a “farce.” India’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2023....
SRINAGAR, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Dozens of people broke down when Kashmiri pro-freedom and religious leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ascended the pulpit of the medieval Jamia Masjid in Srinagar to deliver his first Friday sermon as a free man after four years of house detention. The 50-year-old Farooq also sobbed as he […]...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Various media watchdogs have condemned the move by Indian authorities to restrict access to the website and social media accounts of independent news outlet The Kashmir Walla. The International Federation of Journalists issued a statement saying that there is an overstepping of power to exert censorship...