SRINAGAR -Gunmen killed four Indian soldiers Friday in an ambush outside Srinagar, sparking a gun battle in which one attacker also died.The Indian soldiers were on a search operation during a patrol when they were ambushed in the village of Hardu Buchoo, 30 kilometres  southeast of Srinagar ...

A Pakistani prisoner was ruthlessly attacked by Indian inmates in a jail of occupied Kashmir, here in Srinagar on Friday.Sanaullah was rushed to the GMC hospital, reported Indian media, adding that the assailant  was a former army soldier.Local sources said the injured went into coma because ...

The mention of over 2,000 mass graves, found in the Indian occupied Kashmir, in the US State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Abuses in 2012” released the other day brings to mind once again the inhumanities that the Indian security forces stationed there commit on ...

washington - The admission made by an official human rights body of Indian-occupied Kashmir's "government" in August last year about the existence of over two thousand unmarked graves has been featured in a U.S. report on human rights.The report, titled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices ...

NEW YORK - The unrest in Indian-occupied Kashmir, which erupted in the wake of Muhammad Afzal Guru's secret hanging in New Delhi, is still continuing, now mostly concentrated around Sopore, the Kashmiri activist's home district, Time, the mass-circulation American magazine, reported in its latest ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Indian occupying security forces late on Monday apprehended a young girl in Mendhar tehsil of occupied Poonch district when she was trying to cross the Line of Control (LoC) to enter Azad Jammu Kashmir reportedly after falling in love with a youth on Facebook, said a report reaching ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Indian occupying security forces late on Monday apprehended a young girl in Mendhar tehsil of occupied Poonch district when she was trying to cross the Line of Control (LoC) to enter AJK reportedly after falling in love with a youth on Facebook, said a report reaching here Tuesday ...

SRINAGAR  – A religious group in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Thursday warned tourists not to wear miniskirts or other revealing clothes in the region, which is enjoying a sharp revival in visitor numbers.Holiday-makers have poured back into Held Kashmir over the last two years after a ...

NEW YORK - A farmer in IHK has invented a “singing lantern” to spare himself the surprise of Indian military search operations at his house, according to US media reports from Srinagar. Ghulam Muhammad Mir, who has no formal education, invented the device which is powered by a dry ...

Chairman Kashmir Committee of the parliament Maulana Fazal ur Rehman Monday urged the world powers to take notice of the violence in Jammu & Kashmir and forced India to remove its army from the region.In a statement, he said that instead of stopping bloodshed in Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Fai has ...

ISLAMABAD - The top Kashmiri leadership in the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) was detained following a crackdown launched on Saturday, seemingly to foil the preparations for the Kashmir Solidarity Day being observed in Pakistan and both sides of Line of Control (LoC) today (Sunday).The leading political ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister and Pakistan People’s Party central leader Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry said on Monday that German people and members of German Parliament could better understand the stance of Kashmiri people than other European nations, as they ...

SRINAGAR  - Seven Indian soldiers were missing after an avalanche engulfed their barracks in Held Kashmir on Tuesday, an army spokesman said, as rescue operations were launched to find the men.“The avalanche hit their barracks this morning, trapping seven soldiers in the (northern) ...

SRINAGAR, Dec 31 (INP): The forum patronised by veteran Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani terming 2011 as a tragic year, has stated that the year would be remembered for Sopore custodial killing, Poonch fake encounter and arrest of minors under the black law of Public Safety Act.The forum ...

SRINAGAR (AFP) - Three Indian federal police are dead and another was injured following a shooting at a barracks in insurgency-hit Held Kashmir, an official said Sunday.The fatal incident happened late Saturday evening inside the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in the Himalayan town of ...

SRINAGAR (AFP) - Suspected freedom fighters Saturday shot dead an official of the ruling party in Indian-occupied Kashmir, police said, days after fighters made a failed bid on the life of a senior government minister. Bashir Ahmed was killed in the main city of Srinagar, a police officer said, ...

NEW DELHI - Embroiled in controversies, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram seems to be in no mood to put the Kashmir interlocutors’ report in the public domain, lest it opens another can of worms.The group of interlocutors led by noted journalist Dileep Padgaonkar and comprising Radha Kumar ...

ISLAMABAD - The Kashmiris at both sides of the Line of Control, the Indian Held Kashmir and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, took to the streets on Friday to protest against Pakistan's decision of granting the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. The protests were held on the call of All Parries ...

ISLAMABAD - Political leadership in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) has slammed the Occupied Valleys Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for what they termed as yet another failure, after the discovery of unmarked graves in IHK, to bring the rape culprits to justice. In separate conversations with this ...

ISLAMABAD - Repeating its longstanding 'legacy of having clung to an ever-dormant disposition when it comes to highhandedness from powerful corridors, the United Nations has yet to utter a word on the discovery of thousands of unmarked graves in Indian Held Kashmir. From the regrettable apathy of ...

SRINAGAR (AFP) Held Kashmirs legislature will debate whether to ask New Delhi for clemency for a Kashmiri man sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, a lawmaker said Saturday. Independent legislator Abdul Rashid said he had submitted a resolution to the IHK ...

LAHORE The European Union will get verified the reports about the discovery of mass graves in Indian Held Kashmir, a senior EU diplomat said here on Tuesday. Mr Pierre Mayaudon, deputy head of EU delegation in Islamabad, said while talking to TheNation that before offering any official comment on ...

SRINAGAR (AFP) Indian-occupied Kashmir has declared an amnesty for more than 1,000 youths alleged to have attacked security forces during pro-independence protests last year in which more than 100 civilians died. Kashmir was rocked for months last summer by clashes between stone-throwing ...

NEW YORK - The calm prevailing in Indian Held Kashmir this summer does not mean that Kashmiri people have given up their struggle for an end to New Delhis rule, according to a US media report. 'At the core, the issue for many Kashmiris remains unchanged, The New York Times said in a report from ...

Lahore The CIA designed a plot to create a rift in Pakistan as well as other Islamic states and China for the supremacy of the US and India in 1994, it has been revealed. The CIA planned to create rift among the Army, other sensitive departments and the political forces in Pakistan to establish ...

LONDON The UK-based Tehreek-e-Kashmir has called upon the international community to play its role for the peaceful settlement of longstanding issue of Jammu and Kashmir. India had never demonstrated its sincerity to resolve the Kashmir dispute peacefully and still trying to silence the voice of ...

LAHORE The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Ms Margaret Sekaggya concluded her two-day visit to Held Jammu and Kashmir a couple of weeks ago amid controlled and limited access. An Indian intelligence officer (DCIO) at Srinagar, probably from Intelligence Bureau disclosed on the ...

KARACHI Six-foot tall and slim Muhammad Khalid, 30, was born in Kashmir but has spent the most of the years of his life in Karachi. On Kashmir Day, when rallies have been arranged to express solidarity with Kashmiris, Khalid is not too impressed. As a Kashmiri, I want freedom. But what is the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Indian Home Secretarys statement regarding 25 per cent reduction in the number of military troops in IHK proved nothing more than a superfluous political stunt to deviate pressure in the wake of the ongoing visit of the UNs top human rights official to India. Pertinent circles in ...

ISLAMABAD Was it the 'irony of fate or stereotypically slack diplomacy on the part of United Nations that has earned India the distinguished favour of 'exemption from attending the UN Human Rights Councils ongoing session? Let alone discussing the gross human rights violations in Indian Kashmir, ...