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Politicians meet over Kashmir unrest
Politicians were meeting on Monday to find a way to end weeks of violent anti-government protests in Indian Kashmir which have killed 15 people, dragged in the army and locked down the disputed region. A separatist strike has kept Kashmir on the (...)

13 - 07 - 2010
Army out in Srinagar as violence spreads
For the first time in almost two decades, India on Wednesday deployed army in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, to quell huge anti-India protests that have killed 15 people and threaten to destabilize the region. The soldiers were called in after (...)

08 - 07 - 2010
Lashkar denies link with Chicago suspects
e-Taiba (LeT) Sunday denied having any link to two men arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges. David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested last month and accused of plotting an attack on Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which ran (...)

23 - 11 - 2009
Kashmiris heed strike call
Shops and businesses closed on Tuesday in Indian Kashmir's main city in response to a strike called by separatists, a day before a planned visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The strike, called by hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali (...)

28 - 10 - 2009
Omar Abdullah resumes office
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who quit over allegations of involvement in a sex scandal, resumed office on Friday after the state governor rejected his resignation, officials said. The scandal, in which girls, some of them minors, (...)

01 - 08 - 2009
Indian elections a hard sell in Kashmir Valley
Kashmir's separatist leaders are struggling to win back popular support, and are hoping that a boycott of Thursday's election to the Indian parliament may yet breathe new life into the 20-year movement. The appeal by the All Parties Hurriyat (...)

07 - 05 - 2009
‘Lashkar commander killed in Kashmir battle'
Indian soldiers gunned down a senior member of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, blamed for the November attacks in Mumbai, after a fierce firefight in Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. An Indian soldier was also killed and three others (...)

29 - 01 - 2009
Kashmiris brace for coalition govt
Political parties in Indian Kashmir tried to stitch together a coalition on Monday after elections seen as a vote for better governance in the disputed region rather than acceptance of Indian rule. The National Conference said it would talk to the (...)

30 - 12 - 2008
Troops deployed in tense Kashmir
Indian police said on Tuesday they had arrested three militants, one of them a Pakistani soldier, for allegedly planning a suicide attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan's army, however, denied the arrested man was a serving soldier. The (...)

24 - 12 - 2008
Two killed in Kashmir protests
Indian troops fired at hundreds of stone-throwing Muslims protesting against elections in Kashmir on Saturday, killing two people including a teenaged boy and wounding 20, police and witnesses said. The violence in north Kashmir's Baramulla town (...)

23 - 11 - 2008
Kashmir votes for democracy, not India
A good turnout at the start of Indian Kashmir state elections may mean separatists misread a desire for development and democracy, analysts and voters said on Tuesday, but is not necessarily a vote for Indian rule. While it is too early to draw (...)

19 - 11 - 2008
Strike shuts down Indian Kashmir on UN Day
Shops, businesses and schools closed in Kashmir's main city on Friday after a strike by separatists to press for the implementation of a UN resolution requesting a referendum over the disputed Himalayan region. The strike coincided with United (...)

25 - 10 - 2008
Kashmiris protest visit of Indian PM, strike called
Thousands of Kashmiris staged a demonstration on Friday against the visit of India's prime minister to inaugurate a train link and power project in the disputed region that has seen the biggest anti-India protests in years. Police fired teargas (...)

11 - 10 - 2008
India lifts Kashmir curfew
Authorities in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday lifted a curfew imposed to thwart a massive pro-independence rally, as separatists called for calm with the start of harvesting and marriage season in the Himalayan region. Over the past two months Kashmir (...)

08 - 10 - 2008
12 hurt in Kashmir grenade attack
At least 12 people were wounded on Wednesday after suspected militants threw a grenade into a crowded market in Indian Kashmir, police said. The grenade was aimed at a police jeep in the heart of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's summer capital, they (...)

18 - 09 - 2008
Dozen injured as fresh violence hits Indian Kashmir
At least a dozen people were wounded on Saturday in the main city of Indian Kashmir as Muslim demonstrators clashed with troops in the latest anti-India protest to hit the region, police and witnesses said. Indian troops fired tear-gas shells and (...)

14 - 09 - 2008
2 killed in Kashmir protest
Two people were killed and 80 wounded in Indian Kashmir on Friday when troops fired bullets and tear gas shells to break up renewed protests by Muslims against New Delhi's rule in the disputed region. The shooting took place in two separate towns (...)

13 - 09 - 2008
Tens of thousands march in Kashmir
Waving green Islamic flags and shouting “we want freedom”, tens of thousands of Muslims marched in Indian Kashmir's main city on Friday, resuming some of the biggest protests in two decades against Indian rule. Hundreds of trucks and buses brought (...)

23 - 08 - 2008
Fuel price protests disrupt Kashmir, Assam
Indian police used water canon and batons in Kashmir on Monday to disperse hundreds of government employees protesting over fuel price rises, while a general strike also shut down the northeastern state of Assam. Elsewhere in the country, though, (...)

10 - 06 - 2008
Harkat chief killed
Security forces in Indian Kashmir shot dead a senior leader of a Pakistan-based militant group late on Tuesday, dealing another blow to militants in the region, police said. This year nearly a dozen senior rebel members have been killed in gun (...)

01 - 05 - 2008
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