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An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Awantipora area of Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said.

There were no reports of any casualties in the encounter so ... Her 10-year-old nephew Farhan Zubai received a bullet injury in his arm. There were no reports of any casualties in the encounter so far. There were no reports of any casualties in the encounter so far Encounter breaks out in J-K’s Pulwama, police say killer of Kashmiri artiste Amreen Bhat trapped Encounter breaks out in J-K’s Pulwama, police say killer of Kashmiri artiste Amreen Bhat trapped

Police in disputed Kashmir have arrested at least 10 youths during overnight raids following an anti-India protest that erupted as an Indian court sentenced ...

Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict. Rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since British colonialists granted it independence in 1947. However, in recent years such practices have largely stopped as a form of punishment. Malik was arrested in 2019 and was convicted last week on charges of committing terrorist acts, illegally raising funds, belonging to a terrorist organization, and criminal conspiracy and sedition. Dressed in casual wear and sandals, the suspects are shown looking at the ground, as two policemen with automatic rifles stand guard.

Police on Thursday claimed that two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, who shot dead a TV artist…

Quality journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce and despite all the hardships we still do it. Today more people are reading Kashmir Observer than ever, but only a handful are paying while advertising revenues are falling fast. The exchange of gunfire is going on,” they said.

Kashmir witnessing a steady spike in targeted attacks by terrorists · 14 civilians, 17 security forces, and 80 terrorists killed in Kashmir this year · Kashmiri ...

The targeted killing of a TV actor and social media starlet from Budgam district has evoked widespread condemnation across Jammu and Kashmir with questions being raised about the attackers' motive in gunning down an innocent woman. On her Instagram page where she has nearly 26,000 followers, Amreena described herself as a 'vediomaker' and she had kept her account open for commercial collaborations. JKLF chief has been a prominent face of defiance against India in Kashmir and played a critical role in fanning insurgency in the Valley The killing of Amreena Bhat was the sixth targeted killing in Kashmir this month On YouTube, she had nearly 15,000 subscribers. The killing of Amreena Bhat, a TV actor and social media starlet in Budgam district on Wednesday, May 25, was the sixth targeted attack by terrorists in Kashmir in the month of May.

Amreen Bhat (35) was shot dead by LeT terrorists outside her home in Budgam district. Her 10-year-old nephew was injured in the attack.

The third militant stood outside the house to pick up the other two. “#Encounter has started at Aganhanzipora area of #Awantipora. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow,” tweeted Kashmir Police. In another tweet, police said, “Both killers (LeT #terrorists) of Late Amreen Bhat, an artist, trapped in #Awantipora #encounter. Further details shall follow: IGP Kashmir @JmuKmrPolice.”

Yasin Malik led the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front but subsequently shifted to peaceful means.

Malik was arrested during a raid by Indian troops in 1990 and was released in 1994. It unleashed a brutal counterinsurgency campaign, and soldiers were given broad impunity and allowed to shoot suspects on sight or detain them indefinitely. Shops and businesses closed in the main centers of Srinagar. “The terrorism-related charges leveled against me are concocted, fabricated and politically motivated,” he said. Before Wednesday’s sentencing, dozens of Kashmiris gathered at Malik’s home in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Some marched through the streets, chanting “We want freedom” and “Go back India.” Government forces fired tear gas at the marchers, who threw stones. Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since British colonialists granted it independence in 1947.

I am not the river Jhelum (Ba Chhees na Vaith) is a film by a young artist Prabhash Chandra. I describe him by an epithet that fits best, an artist rather than ...

Today Jhelum is a mass of muddy water which has witnessed the zulm of decades. Prabhash Chandra has looked at Kashmir from a lens which to me is comparable with the best of European cinema. Through the scenes in my film I have looked at how this kind of nationalism breeds fascist ideology and how it regulates women’s bodies to assert power, making it a site of nationalist politics, violence and conflict. ’Through the film I have tried to look for an expression where I can bring in the narratives of women and girls who have been gang-raped and murdered in these many years. There is Lokesh Jain playing Bilal with immense restraint of a man who having witnessed it all has reached life’s end. Nothing bothers him except when he is stripped naked and tortured on the charge of harbouring militants. Her father sends her to Delhi in a desperate attempt to remove her from scenes of violence. The film showed a shattered Kashmir in 2022, far far cry from the Jannat e Kashmir which I had known, about which poets had sung peans. The scene in which 10 girls, like the chorus in Greek Tragedy pull strings of their salwars and step out of the heaped garment to lie down on the bare floor, speaks much more than words. A boy sits in a corner of his house with brush and black paint making posters; again and again he writes just one word ‘Azadi’, in many forms until his mother comes and tears up his posters. The film has been released only at film festivals. During my Planning Commission term I had cried at the desolation of the valley.

Plea to give the Jammu and Kashmiri Liberation Front leader a death sentence was rejected by court.

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Malik picked up the gun more than 30 yrs ago; gave it up in the mid-90s. For a while, the Indian state invested in him, but ended up disappointed.

In 2003, as India and Pakistan took halting steps towards a dialogue after several years of backchannel contact, Malik began a campaign for Kashmiris to be included in the process. He boycotted elections, and told people the government would use the turnout to tell the world that Kashmir had returned to normal. Malik and another separatist leader, Shabir Shah, were released in 1994, at a time when the Indian state was casting around for a way out of the Kashmir quicksand. Wani had become the face of Kashmir’s new militancy, and as his death sparked spontaneous protests across Kashmir, the separatists moved to claim their leadership. The growing irritation with Malik on the Indian side was evident, but the definitive break came when he joined hands with Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Omar Farooq to form the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) in 2016, after the killing of Hizb commander Burhan Wani that year. Both Shah, the “headmaster” of militants, and Malik, the “head boy”, turned out to be huge disappointments for Delhi, Dulat wrote. “He was a free man, he would just come and sit and talk for a while,” Dr Kaul said. The doctor and the militant conversed in Kashmiri. “He was a good and obedient patient. Two people Dulat cited as being important influences in this decision were Farooq Abdullah, who did some “plain talking” with him on the lawns of the jail, and Dr Upendra Kaul, a cardiac surgeon then at AIIMS, who performed a heart valve surgery on Malik. But there was a time when the Indian establishment believed Malik would be more useful as a free man. “He (Malik) had a leaking heart valve. One pertains to the abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of India’s then Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989; another to the killing of four IAF personnel, including a Squadron Leader, in Srinagar in 1990.

"So far, 26 foreign terrorists have been neutralised this year," Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone Vijay Kumar said after three Lashkar militants were ...

Quality journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce and despite all the hardships we still do it. Today more people are reading Kashmir Observer than ever, but only a handful are paying while advertising revenues are falling fast. A senior army officer earlier this month said the foreign militants were compelled to come out of their hideouts to conduct operations in Kashmir as the number of local militants is coming down in the valley.

Three Pakistani militants affiliated with Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir's frontier Kupwara ...

Sources said that the foreign militants usually take shelter in the dense forest areas of north Kashmir thus avoiding the security radar. The latest encounter comes just a day after three Pakistani militants and a policeman were killed in a ‘chance encounter’ between security forces and ultras in neighbouring Baramulla district on Wednesday. Three Pakistani militants affiliated with Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Thursday.

Kashmir was no paradise for its handful of struggling artistes before the brutal murder of 35-year-old actress Ambreen Bhat by suspected militants on ...

“I remember, some 15 or more years ago, I was in her area for a shoot. We are part of our society and we all know our limits,” the artiste added. Some radio shows and theatre offers still come from AIR and the Cultural Academy.Some artistes have shifted to other professions. Before you shoot somebody, you have to tell her or him what wrong they had done. “We are all in shock and everybody is asking what was her crime. Kashmir was no paradise for its handful of struggling artistes before the brutal murder of 35-year-old actress Ambreen Bhat by suspected militants on Wednesday evening.

SRINAGAR: Indian forces killed six fighters in occupied Kashmir over the past 24 hours while the fighters shot dead a female TV performer and a police ...

One of the dead was a Kashmiri Hindu government employee, worrying the disputed region’s tiny minority community. “We have also lost a cop in one of the operations.” The sentencing prompted warnings from politicians that it would promote alienation in the Muslim-majority region.

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 27 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday morning said that two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, ...

Jammu and Kashmir Police said that the 10-year-old nephew of the TV actress had a bullet injury on his arm. The nephew is receiving treatment at a hospital in the district, added the police. Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 27 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday morning said that two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, involved in the killing of Kashmiri TV actress Amreen Bhat, have been neutralised in Kashmir’s Avantipora.

He said the two terrorists, who were responsible for killing TV artiste Amreen Bhat in Budgam district a day earlier, were trapped in the cordon. "Both killed ...

Heinous #murder case of late Ambreen bhat solved in 24 hours," Mr Kumar said in another tweet. Both killed newly joined local— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) #terroristsidentified as Shahid Mushtaq Bhat R/O Hafroo Chadoora #Budgam& Farhan Habib R/O Hakripora #Pulwama. They had #killedTV artist on the instruction of LeT Cmdr Lateef. 01 AK 56 rifle, 4 magazines and a pistol recovered: IGP Kashmir https://t.co/VeoHZRkdEO May 26, 2022 "Both killed newly joined local #terrorists identified as Shahid Mushtaq Bhat R/O Hafroo Chadoora #Budgam & Farhan Habib R/O Hakripora #Pulwama. They had #killed TV artist on the instruction of LeT Cmdr Lateef. 01 AK 56 rifle, 4 magazines and a pistol recovered," IGP Kashmir zone Vijay Kumar tweeted.

Amreen Bhat was shot dead by unidentified militants in her village of Hushroo, deep in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Wednesday.

The men hesitated and the younger man brought out a pistol and shot her in the neck. Still I told her many times to stop doing these videos but she told me that she is doing nothing wrong,” he remembered. They killed a human being as if they killed humanity,” said a woman sitting in the tent. “She earned for her father and her sister’s children. The child was with her and he was also hit in the arm,” said Mohammad. She divorced him in 2014 and returned to Hushroo. Now home to an ailing father, and a brother who struggled to make ends meet, Bhat started running the household. It is this storey that Amreen Bhat was building for her family for the past year, with the money she was making from her wildly popular videos on social media, many of which were shot in the backyard of the house, and the green fields of paddy that ringed it. Her Instagram profile was littered with comments blaming her for sullying traditions and religion. Her head was mostly covered, they point out, and many videos carried the text, “Love you ma,” a dedication to her mother, Mughli, who died 14 years ago. “When her mother died, she took all the burden of the house. They had no major source of income; she started working in TV and also recording videos. A village of 1,500people, Hushroo is located deep in the heart of Budgam district.

Once famed for their secular constitutions, India and Singapore have taken different tacks on religious vilification.

While Singapore favoured a ban as a means of protecting its secularism, the BJP used the film as a way to legitimise its Hindu nationalist discourse, further fracturing communal relationships in an increasingly polarised India. The BJP, with its explicit Hindutva posturing, has been accused of actively promoting anti-Muslim and anti-minority sentiments as part of its mainstream political discourse, affecting the plural fabric of the country. The governing People’s Action Party in Singapore has long perceived issues of ethnicity and religion as highly sensitive and requiring close management. Singapore’s decisive stance on the film is reflective of its robust, interventionist approach to the management of multiculturalism and diversity in the city state. Critics have panned the film for blatant Islamophobia and a biased portrayal of history, with themes that align with the Hindu nationalist agenda of the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, the filmmaker depicts the event as a genocide – a claim that remains disputed – with Muslims unequivocally seen as the enemy.

A total of 10 terrorists, from JeM and LeT were killed in three days in Kashmir valley, says IGP.

Heinous murder case of Ambreen solved in 24 hours,” Mr. Vijay Kumar said Mr. Vijay Kumar said four LeT militants have been killed in less than 10 hours in twin operations. Incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were recovered,” the police said.

An encounter broke out at Aganhanzipora locality in Awantipora area of Pulwama district late on Thursday night, a police spokesman said. He said two ultras, who ...

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Four militants, including the duo who had murdered TV artiste Amreen Bhatt on Wednesday, were killed in two separate overnight encounters with security ...

In a separate encounter two more militants affiliated with the LeT were killed in an encounter with security forces in Soura area on the outskirts of Srinagar city during the wee hours of Friday. The encounter had erupted on Thursday evening after security forces launched a search operation in the Aganhanzipora area of Awantipora following specific inputs about the presence of two LeT militants, who were involved in the killing of 35-year-old Kashmiri TV artiste. Four militants, including the duo who had murdered TV artiste Amreen Bhatt on Wednesday, were killed in two separate overnight encounters with security forces in Kashmir on Friday.

Four Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, including two who were involved in killing a woman TV artiste, were killed in two separate encounters in Pulwama and ...

Heinous #murder case of late Ambreen bhat solved in 24 hours," Kumar said in another tweet. Four Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, including two who were involved in killing a woman TV artiste, were killed in two separate encounters in Pulwama and Srinagar districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Friday. 10 militants killed in 3 days

SRINAGAR: Indian forces killed six fighters in occupied Kashmir over the past 24 hours while the fighters shot dead a female TV performer and a police ...

One of the dead was a Kashmiri Hindu government employee, worrying the disputed region’s tiny minority community. “We have also lost a cop in one of the operations.” The sentencing prompted warnings from politicians that it would promote alienation in the Muslim-majority region.

Ambassador Munir Akram draws UNSC's attention to sentencing of Yasin Malik.

He cited Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s statement that “India can imprison Yasin Malik but it can never imprison the idea of freedom he symbolizes”. “The conviction and sentencing today by an Indian kangaroo court of the Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik, is the latest illustration of Indian oppression,” he said. Earlier, Ambassador Akram drew the 15-member UN Security Council’s attention to the life sentence handed down to Malik, calling it the “latest illustration of Indian oppression” in IIOJK. “Like other colonialists, India has sought to portray the Kashmiri freedom struggle as terrorism,” he said.

Nearly two days after Kashmiri actress Amreen Bhat was shot dead by terrorists at her residence in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam, the J&K Police said on Friday ...

Amreen Bhat, 35, was shot by terrorists at her residence in the Chadoora area of Budgam on Wednesday evening. Because the truth is worth it.) They had killed the TV artiste on the instruction of LeT Commander Lateef.

Two militants of Lashkar-i-Toiba from Shopian district were killed in a predawn gunfight with the police in Soura area of Kashmir capital on Friday, ...

Two militants of Lashkar-i-Toiba from Shopian district were killed in a predawn gunfight with the police in Soura area of Kashmir capital on Friday, police said. Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that two LeT militants were killed in Soura days after a cop was killed by the militants. Two militants of Lashkar-i-Toiba from Shopian district were killed in a predawn gunfight with the police in Soura area of Kashmir capital on Friday, police said.

Militants on Wednesday evening shot dead a woman TV artist Amreen Bhat at her home at Hushroo, Chadoora in central Kashmir's Budgam district.

Meanwhile, another encounter broke out between militants and security forces at Soura area of Srinagar. A police official said two LeT militants were killed in the encounter. He said during the search operation, militants fired on the troops. A police official said a search operation was launched at the Aganhanzipora area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district last evening after receiving inputs about the presence of Lashkar militants there.