The Jammu and Kashmir police has formally sought the custody of an Army colonel, a major and four others for custodial interrogation in the alleged staged gunfight killing of four local youth in Machael sector near the Line of Control in on April 30 this year.

The deteriorating law and order situation in parts of Kashmir Valley and increasing anger in the local population as an upshot of the recent killings in CRPF and police firings seems to have made chief minister Omar Abdullah lose his sleep. “He is perturbed and agitated,” said an aide.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has appointed Justice Syed Bashir-ud-Din (Retd), chairperson, J&K State Human Rights Commission, to conduct an inquiry into the Sopore incident. He has been asked to ascertain the causes of death of two local youth, Shakeel Ahmad Ganai and Firdous Ahmad Khan, who fell in CRPF firing,

Surging crowds defied curfew in Sopore and while chanting pro-freedom slogans clashed with the riot police on Saturday, a day after the Kashmiri town, 48 km northwest of summer capital Srinagar, had witnessed widespread disturbances in the aftermath of the killing of two protesters in CRPF firing, reports said.

At least, two protesters were killed and five others wounded on Friday when the CRPF opened fire on a mob which attacked one of its bunker (armoured) vehicles in the town of Sopore, 48-km northwest of here, during the disturbances set off by the slaying of two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants in gunfight with the troops earlier during the day.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe in the political race some parties seem to be in over the Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru’s hangin

The police in the Kashmir Valley has arrested several senior separatist leaders and activists in the latest campaign apparently prompted by upsurge in anti-India disturbances, particularly in Srinagar, during which three local youth were killed in police and CRPF actions. A major portion of the summer capital remained under

An Army colonel was killed and a captain wounded in fresh incidents of violence in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier districts of Kupwara and Poonch. In Kupwara’s picturesque Lolab valley, the militants ambushed a group of soldiers late on Tuesday night resulting into the death of Colonel Neeraj Sood, who was the Commanding

A top LeT commander and a policeman were killed and four others injured in an overnight gunbattle in Sopore town of north Kashmir, the police said on Tuesday.
The firefight commenced at Bhagat Mohalla, 55 km from here, when militants opened fire on a search party of special operations group (SOG) of local police, around 9.50 am on Monday.

Srinagar is tense again after another local youth was killed and four others injured when CRPF personnel opened fire to quell a mob which allegedly attacked one of its pillboxes at Noorbagh in central