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Curfew continues for 26th day KMS News In the curfew clamped Kashmir, thousands of people defying various restrictions took to streets in south, north and central Kashmir, on Wednesday , against India’s latest onslaught on Kashmiri people. Scores of people were injured when occupational forces fired bullets, pellets and teargas shells on protesters in Soura […]

SADIQ SHABAN [The Gulf News, 26 August 2019] I WAS glad to be home as I landed in Kashmir a day before India revoked the state’s special autonomy, breaking it into two federal territories and bringing it directly under the control of New Delhi. On August 4 — the penultimate day — while driving from […]

NEW DELHI, Aug 14: A team of civil rights activists who visited Srinagar and adjoining areas has prepared a report that paints a picture completely contrary to the image of normalcy and calm in Jammu and Kashmir that the government has been projecting since the abrogation of Article 370. The activists – noted economist Jean […]

Rising Kashmir News: Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM), general secretary, Shehla Rashid Shora on August 18 alleged that Delhi was violating human rights in restive Kashmir region. In a statement issued here, Shora said, “The central government is infringing upon the religious rights of Amarnath yatris by forcing them to cut short their pilgrimage. […]

Is India using Israel’s colonial playbook in Kashmir? By TweleSur The current measure by the Indian government is “the beginnings of a settler-colonial project in Kashmir, one similar to Israel’s in the Palestinian territories.” In a dramatic political development, the Indian government over the last weekend instructed tourists to leave occupied Kashmir, imposed an indefinite […]

Kashmir Times BEIJING, Aug 6 (Agencies): Asking India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, China on Tuesday said they should avoid actions that “unilaterally” change the status quo and exacerbate tensions between them as it voiced “serious concern” over the situation in Kashmir. An agency reports said that China also expressed its opposition to India’s move […]

KT News Service NEW YORK, Aug 6: UN chief Antonio Guterres has said he was following “with concern” the tense situation in the India-Pakistan region after the Indian government scrapped Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and urged the two neighbours to exercise restraint. India on Monday revoked Article 370 which gave special status to […]

Greater Kashmir report The Kashmir Bar Association pleaded last week that rights of pellet victims can’t be ignored and excessive use of pellets violates Article 21 (Right to life) of the Constitution. Pleading the Bar’s case before a division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar, senior Advocate Z A Shah […]

Ershad Mahmud The recently released 43-page report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir across the Line of Control addressed comprehensively almost all major aspects of the situation. It also recommended measures to improve human rights condition not only in the […]

Jorge Capelán and Stephen Sefton The 40th anniversary of Nicaragua’s Sandinista overthrow represents victory over Zamoza dictatorship in 1979 and U.S. imperialism today. For all Nicaragua, and especially the capital of Managua, July 19 of this year, more than ever will see a spectacular festival of revolution, peace and above all popular resistance against United […]