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Sopore Custodial Killing | Cause, Reaction And Action
After two civilian killings by unidentified gunmen in a week, in Sopore, another civilian, Nazim Rashid alias Anjum died in police custody after he was arrested by a joint team of police and army yesterday. Twenty six-year-old Anjum, son of Abdur Rasheed Shalla of Alamdar Mohalla was picked up by a police team for questioning in connection with the killing of one of the killed person, Mohammad Ashraf Dar, a labourer, son of Ghulam Ahmad of … Read entire article »
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Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir: APDP
This is a press release from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS, The Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar, 190001. It is about a new report, which you can download in .pdf format at the end of this press release. Srinagar, July 28, 2011 – The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) today released the report Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir. It examines the situation of women in Indian-administered Kashmir whose … Read entire article »
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The Lobbyist
By Sameer Bhat Poor Dr Fai. Imprisoned for being ISI. That all powerful imperium in imperio [state within a state]. Uncle Bush, busy signing his own baseball cards these days, gave the Pakistanis well over $10 billion since 9/11. Pakistanis apportioned the largesse amongst themselves and some of it naturally went to ISI — being the largest of the three intel service agencies of that country. The spy agency in turn threw … Read entire article »
Filed under: Opinion
Nearly 40 Cops To Stop Meeting Kulgam Rape Victim
By Fahad Shah She is inside a double-storey mud-brick house. This house is standing on a hill, which grows corn and apples. Surrounded by forests and orchards, this house has become the center of attention for everyone. The two parallel lines of tyre marks on the unmetalled road ends here at the house of 25-year-old Ruqaiya Bano wife of Lateef Ahmad Bhat, a farmer. This area is very far away and low populated that distance … Read entire article »
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Kashmir On Sale: Over 100 Acres Of Srinagar Airfield Sold
By NDTV Shocking as it may sound, India’s most security-sensitive airfield the Srinagar Air Force Station and International Airport has been on sale for four years, and till recently nobody knew about it! NDTV has exclusive documents that show bit by bit more than 100 acres of the 2,300-acre airfield has been sold to private players by land sharks who bribed their way through the Defence Estates Office and the government’s … Read entire article »
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Justice! Justice! Justice! | Shut Up!
By Fahad Shah Reports say “a 30-year-old woman alleges she was raped by two army men for two days in a hut”. This is what I read on news wires, newspapers and websites. This time police reacted swiftly and filed an FIR No:-66/2011 under section 366,376-RPC in Police Station Damhal Hanji Pora, which they hardly prefer to do often. Even this time senior police officers and a minister visited the place. It happened in Manzgam village, Kulgam. … Read entire article »
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