Topic: Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir: Journalist detained in midnight raid
A Srinagar-based photojournalist Mukhtar Zahoor was detained in a mid-night raid from his residence.
5 army men killed in gunfight with militants in Jammu and Kashmir
A Junior Commissioned Officer or JCO and four other soldiers were killed in action during an encounter between security forces and militants during an "anti-insurgency operation" in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Monday, officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir sacks 6 govt employees for “posing threat to State’s security”
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government on Wednesday dismissed six government employees from their services for "posing a threat to State’s security."
“Condemnations have fallen on deaf ears,” Kashmir journalist bodies on police raid
The journalist bodies have vehemently condemned the police raid against four journalists in the valley, Hilal Mir, Shah Abbas, Azhar Qadri, and Showkat Motta.
UAPA case: J&K Police raid residences of four journalists, detain for a day
Four Kashmir-based journalists were raided on Wednesday and later detained at a police station in Srinagar in a one year old case under draconian UAPA.
They snatched his body and forcibly buried him: Geelani’s son
Naseem Geelani, son of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, one of the most prominent figures in the Kashmiri resistance movement who died on Wednesday, alleged that his family had planned to bury him at the main martyrs’ graveyard in Srinagar, the region’s main city, as specified in his will but were not allowed to do so by the Jammu and Kashmir police.
