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Court Pushes India on Kashmir Deaths
By Tom Wright/WS Journal/ May 2, 2012
Delhi:The Supreme Court is putting the screws on India’s government to make a decision about how to deal with soldiers accused of killing innocent men in Kashmir in 2000, an incident known in India as the Pathribal killings for the district where they [...]
An Army Apart
May 2, 2012, 11:12 AM
By HARTOSH SINGH BAL
Indian soldiers at the scene of a gun battle in November 2007 with militants in northern Kashmir.
DELHI — In the fall of 2007, shortly after retiring as chief of the Indian army, J.J. Singh became president of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, one of those [...]
RAW, IB, army knew all about western hostages: report
New Delhi, May 02: British journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, digging into the secret files of the Jammu and Kashmir Police Crime Branch that probed the kidnapping of five western tourists in 1995, have revealed that the grave of killed hostages may be in the Mati Gawran area close to [...]
PATHRIBAL RULING A SETBACK FOR JUSTICE IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR:AI
PRESS RELEASES/Amnesty International
1 May 2012
INDIA: PATHRIBAL RULING A SETBACK FOR JUSTICE IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Special powers that allow India’s armed forces suspected of involvement in extra-judicial killings to sidestep the civilian courts have been reinforced in a disappointing court ruling [...]
UN chief for peaceful settlement of Kashmir
New Delhi, April 28 : The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, advocating peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute, has said that the “will” of Kashmiri people must be respected while finding any resolution.
When asked about the UN position on Kashmir during a press conference in New Delhi, Ban [...]
AJK women narrative missing on Kashmir conflict
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Islamabad: There is hardly any AJK women narrative on the Kashmir conflict and their voices are missing in the peace-building processes in Kashmir.
This was stated by Dr Shaheen Akhtar, senior Research Fellow, at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), here on Friday. She [...]
Book force personnel involved in excesses: HRW
Srinagar, Apr 27: A day after UN secretary general Ban ki Moon arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit to India, International Human rights Watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday said peace cannot be restored in the Valley till force personnel involved in excesses are booked.
“There is [...]
‘OVER 20,000 released militants responsible for Kashmir trouble’
Delhi has played mischievous role in Kashmir: Madhu Kishwar
Srinagar, April 27: Dispelling the notion that Facebook users in Valley were under threat from police, Inspector General of Police Kashmir zone S M Sahai Friday said no one was arrested for this charge.
He, however, asserted that “freedom” [...]
UN discuss Kashmir question next week
NEW YORK April 26, 2012: The Security Council was yesterday officially convened to meet next week to discuss the Kashmir question. Substantive debate on Kashmir is expected to begin after Pakistan and Indian representatives have made their opening statements. The UN will take up the Kashmir [...]
Kashmir Conference warns India to desist from state terrorism in disputed region
Islamabad April 24, 2012: A day long Kashmir Conference to seek answer to the challenging situation of the Kashmir movement in the back-drop of growing Pakistan -India commerce and cultural relations and newly introduced Dargah-Diplomacy, was held here in a local hotel today, under the auspices of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League AJK Chapter ,highlighting apprehensions of the Kashmiris across the conflict zone infested with grave human rights violations by Indian occupation troops since 1988.
The Kashmir Conference was hosted by Ishtiaq Hameed leader of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League who briefed the audience about the aims and objectives of this conference.
Kashmir:Mobile bunkers to replace CRPF pickets
Date: 23 Apr 2012
Mobile bunkers to replace CRPF pickets
• Bunker removal process put on halt in some areas: IG Prakash
• 22 battalions of paramilitary force deployed in Srinagar
• 10 bullet-proof mobile bunkers added to CRPF fleet
Wasim Khalid
Srinagar, April 20: Even as major bunkers have been [...]
Indian text book describes liberated Kashmir as Azad Kashmir
Srinagar, April 22 (agencies): A new text book published by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for class three in an Army school in Srinagar has depicted the map of Jammu and Kashmir exactly how it is being published in Pakistan.
In Delhi Indian media reported that the map has described [...]