Just ten minutes after I, along with five members of my family, escaped through the narrow lane of our locality, an artillery shell landed with full force on the same path. Zain and Zoya (nickname of Urwa), the 12-year-old twins you may have heard of by now, were the first to be martyred. Three others were injured—one of them was a friend whom I had greeted at his doorstep as we fled, urging him to do the same.
Following the Pahalgam militant attack, the Union Government has banned 16 Pakistani YouTube channels, including major outlets like Dawn News, Samaa TV, ARY News, and Geo News, for spreading provocative, communally sensitive content and for pushing false and misleading narratives against India, its Army, and security agencies.
The people of Kashmir, long caught between competing nationalisms and global indifference, deserve more than to be scapegoated or silenced. They deserve dignity, autonomy, and the right to be seen not through the lens of fear, but through the prism of justice.
Aminul Islam, an MLA of the opposition party All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), has been arrested over his comments on the militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and Pulwama.
A senior journalist was assaulted by BJP workers while covering a protest against the Pahalgam militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, after reportedly raising questions regarding the potential security lapses under the BJP-led Union government.
Following the militant attack that killed 26 people in Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday, security forces launched a large-scale crackdown in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, detaining hundreds of individuals for questioning.