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Shaheena Khan often replays the last conversation she had with her son, Asrar. “I was watching him from the balcony and called him to come have tea,” she recalled. “But he wanted to play another game.”
Asrar, who would have turned 19 this year, was a passionate cricketer. His friends even nicknamed him after Virat Kohli, the captain of India’s national cricket team. In August 2019, he was attacked by half a dozen police officers in riot gear as he played in the street in Srinagar, Kashmir’s largest city.
The day before the attack, the Indian government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majority state that had remained a disputed territory, with the power to make its own laws, since 1947. Thousands of troops entered the region, political and religious leaders were detained and all lines of communication to the outside world were blocked.
From One Year of the Gag to the Next, âNormalcyâ in Kashmir Comes at a Price
Just when the central government was supposed to plan its course under the cold hand of reason, Modiâs pyromania in Kashmir comes with the potential to trigger a blowback that India may not afford.
Indian security personnel stop Kashmiri residents as they stand guard on a deserted road during restrictions after scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government, in Srinagar, August 23, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail
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Srinagar: From the central governmentâs perspective, the year that just ended signifies a triumph of sorts on the Kashmir front. Despite the fact that the Valley was still reeling from the chaotic aftermath of the end of its special constitutional status â the loss of statehood, its division into two, the worldâs longest internet shutdown, mass detentions, a violent crackdown on protests and significant struc
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Kashmir group seeks UN probe into torture by Indian troops
May 20, 2019 By Hassan
Srinagar, May 20: A prominent rights group in occupied Kashmir is advocating for the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what it calls the endemic use of torture by Indian forces who have faced a decades-long anti-India uprising in the disputed region.
The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) on Monday released a detailed reportsaying that the Indian government is using torture as a “matter of policy” and “instrument of control” in Kashmir, where locals have struggled against Indian rule since 1989.
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APDP, JKCCS document torture In Kashmir
May 21, 2019 By Hassan
Srinagar: Prisoners in Jammu and Kashmir have been subjected to abuse and torture, including “water-boarding, sleep deprivation and sexualised torture”, according to a report by two rights bodies.
The 560-page report released on Monday mentions solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and sexualised torture including rape and sodomy, used as torture techniques against Kashmiris.
Other torture methods included electrocution, hanging from a ceiling, dunking detainees’ head in water (which is sometimes mixed with chili powder), said the report by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS).
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February 24, 2021 By Hassan
Anantnag/Islamabad: Two militants have been killed in an ongoing encounter that raged between Indian forces and militants in forest area of Shalgul Srigufwara in Bijbehara belt of South Kashmir’s Anantnag/Islamabad district on Wednesday. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that two unidentified militants have been killed so far while as the operation is on in the […]