One person was killed in a clash between a mob and security forces in downtown Srinagar on Sunday evening, shattering the peace that was by and large witnessed in Kashmir through the day with curfew in force in the capital and two other towns.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
With three sarpanchs killed in December, many panchayat members are running scared and quitting their posts. Pervez Majeed reports.
Traders in Sopore say that not only were they cheated in fixing the price, but the buyers in PoK also did not pay the Rs 14 lakh (Rs 1.4 million) that they had arbitrarily decided as the price for the supplies they received.
Handing the verdict, the General Court Martial also suspended the service benefits of Col DK Pathania of the 4 Rajput regiment (the unit which was involved in the encounter), Captain Upendra Singh, Subedar Satbir Singh, Havildar Bir Singh, Sepoy Chadraban, Sepoy Nagendra Singh and Sepoy Narinder Singh.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday arrested a top militant commander of terror outfit Lashka-e-Taiyba in Srinagar.The police, acting on specific information, arrested Ashiq Hussain alias Umair, district commander of LeT outfit for Doda, along with his wife, from the uptown Batmallo locality of the city."His wife too is an active LeT cadre. Three associates of the LeT commander have also been arrested," the spokesman said.
Three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed and two others including a CRPF jawan and a woman wounded in a hit-and-run attack in north Kashmir's apple-rich Sopore town in Baramullah district this evening.
Two days ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly poll, militants on Monday shot dead two Central Reserve Police Force soldiers and fled with their service rifles in Baramulla district. Militants sprayed bullets on constables Inderjeet Singh and S S Budhria from a point blank range in Iqbal Market near the main bus stand in Sopore town, official sources said.
The Hussain family from Sopore and Iqbal household in Kashmir's Anantnag are eagerly waiting for their cell phones to buzz. It's been 11 days since 20-year-old Amir Hussain Rather and 25-year-old Wasim Iqbal last spoke with their folks back home.
Former Union minister of state for external affairs and president of National Conference, Omar Abdullah has said India and Pakistan needed to rise above mutual mistrust and work together against terrorism.
One person was killed and two others were injured when unidentified militants hurled a grenade at a National Conference rally in Brat village near Sopore in Baramulla district of North Kashmir.
Curfew was imposed on Friday morning in seven police station areas of Srinagar district as a precautionary measure, a police official said.
Strict security measures were imposed across Srinagar on Friday to foil anti-poll protests by the separatists while a senior police officer was injured in a powerful militant grenade attack at Sopore in north Kashmir on Thursday night.Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in the city and roads in the old city have been sealed to restrict the movement of people.The separatist coordination committeehad urged the people to observe 'shutdown'
Ten incidents of stone pelting were reported from Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian, Awantipora and Sopore.
If and when this latest crisis moves towards resolution, it's unlikely that the economic solutions will take much precedence, says Sreenivasan Jain.
Groups of youth took to the streets at Press Colony and Khanyar in support of Naik.
Article 370 'was not a special status. It was a special discrimination. With its abrogation we have brought Kashmiris on par with Indians', he said.
It is time India acted like Lincoln and not like 'men of straw' who succumbed to pressure in 1947. It is time that India makes it clear that secession is not an option and that Indian unity is non-negotiable.
Gazi Misbah-ud-Din, the operational commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Muzaffar Ahmad alias Tajamul, divisional commander of the outfit were arrested over the past two days.
The improvised explosive device planted by militants at Badyara Ashtangoo on Sopore-Bandipora road went off when a Central Reserve Police Force vehicle ran over it around 8 am, injuring three jawans and three civilians.
Despite major successes against militants in Kashmir Valley so far this year, the recent rise in militant attacks in the state has put the security forces on the alert as more such strikes are expected during winter.
The district administration has also ordered closure of all colleges and higher secondary schools in Srinagar for Monday.
Police said that acting on a tip-off, a joint operation was launched by troops belonging to the 22 Rashtriya Rifles and the CRPF, and the state police in Sopore town on Sunday morning. Having surrounded the house in which the terrorists were holed, the security forces challenged them to surrender. But the cornered terrorists resorted to opening fire on the troops. Till reports last came in, a Central Reserve Police Force trooper and a policeman were reported to be injured.
Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the Valley.
A senior police officer said the two terrorists holed up inside a hotel building were killed when troops stormed the four-storey building to end the stand off.
Abdul Rehman, a resident of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, had infiltrated in January and was engaged in recruiting local youth for "suicide" attacks, the army said.
Normal life remained affected in Kashmir Valley for the 98th day due to the ongoing unrest.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Baramulla, Vijay Kumar said the police raided Sopore on specific information and arrested LeT militant Nisar Ahmad Dar alias Sajid.
No injuries were reported in the incident, defence sources said.
A mentally-challenged boy was shot dead by security personnel after he allegedly tried to intrude into a J&K army camp in the wee hours on Friday.
Top Kashmiri separatist leaders on Saturday evening joined the iftar party hosted by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the hard-line separatist leader at his uptown residence.
Umer Khalid was a A++ category top ranking terrorist and carried a cash reward of nearly Rs 7 lakh.
A Delhi court on Tuesday ordered that Afzal be hanged on October 20.\n\n
Normal life remained paralysed for the 37th consecutive day due to curfew, restrictions and separatist sponsored strike.
The attack comes only a day after three people, including two militants, died in an assault on a Border Security Force camp in Sopore, north Kashmir.\n
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