By Vishnu Makhijani Book: “Not War, Not Peace?”; Authors: George Perkovich & Toby Dalton; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 297; Price: Rs 695 The Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, with its violent consequences…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Global rights group Amnesty International on Thursday asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to stop the use of pellet guns which have claimed lives and left hundreds blinded in the…
Srinagar, Aug 3 (IANS) People across Kashmir Valley on Wednesday took to the streets and defied curfew at some places after the killing of two more civilians, including an ATM booth guard who was found…
Islamabad, Aug 3 (IANS) A group of All Parties Hurriyat Conference workers on Wednesday held a protest in Rawalpindi against Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s arrival in the country to attend a Saarc ministerial conference….
Islamabad, Aug 3 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the Kashmir issue is the main pillar of Islamabad’s foreign policy. Sharif, addressing the concluding session of the three-day conference of Pakistani envoys…
Jammu, Aug 3 (IANS) Cross border trade on the Line of Control (LoC) between the two divided parts of Kashmir was suspended on Wednesday for the week. A senior official of the district administration in…
Srinagar, Aug 3 (IANS) Tension gripped Kashmir Valley on Wednesday after the death of a protester on Srinagar-Jammu national highway and a bank guard in Srinagar late Tuesday, police said. “One civilian was killed and…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Aug 2 (IANS) The UN has backtracked on its assertion that it was monitoring the situation in Kashmir through the UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), clarifying…
Srinagar, Aug 2 (IANS) One protester was killed on Tuesday evening and another injured after security personnel fired on a mob who had attacked the vehicle of an official on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in…
Islamabad, Aug 2 (IANS) Turkey on Tuesday voiced support for Pakistan’s demand to send an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) team to Jammu and Kashmir to probe “human rights violations”. Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut…
Srinagar, Aug 1 (IANS) Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Amit Kumar was on Monday produced before a court in custody of a senior police officer for non-compliance of its orders. The SSP was produced by…
Jammu, Aug 1 (IANS) India and China on Monday agreed to maintain peace on the border as ceremonial Border Personnel Meetings (BPM) on the occasion of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Day were held on Monday…
Srinagar, Aug 1 (IANS) Sporadic clashes between stone-pelting mobs and security forces at some places notwithstanding, the overall law and order situation in the Kashmir Valley showed signs of marginal improvement on Monday with some…
Lahore, Aug 1 (IANS) The proscribed Jamat-ud-Dawa’s (JuD) charity wing Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), led by Hafiz Saeed, on Monday announced it is sending a caravan to Jammu and Kashmir packed with daily essential requirements for…
Srinagar, July 31 (IANS) National Conference (NC) leader Iftikhar Hussain Misgar, who fought the recent by-elections against Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, quit his party on Sunday to join the ongoing protests. He…
Srinagar, July 31 (IANS) No major incident of violence occurred anywhere in the Kashmir Valley Sunday as over 10,000 candidates sat for the common entrance test (CET) for selection to medical course in various colleges…
Srinagar, July 31 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday expressed unhappiness over Prime Minister Narendra Modi not mentioning unrest in the valley in his monthly radio address “Mann Ki Baat”. “How…
Jammu, July 30 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday said that the government had no information about presence of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani at the site of the gunfight,…
By Sarwar Kashani Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) A senior Jammu and Kashmir cabinet minister narrowly escaped on Saturday when his cavalcade was attacked with stones as more violence erupted in the valley, coinciding with the…
Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) A city court on Saturday directed police to issue a non-bailable warrant against the Srinagar police chief after he defied its orders to register a case against a senior police officer…