kashmir terrorism

In a country where democracy has been reduced to the level of a vote bank, it is no surprise if the national or regional elections have become an anathema to the Kashmiri Pandit community. In the first place, they are numerically almost immaterial in a State where, after suffering unceasing persecution for more than six […]

Amidst fervent Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir, author Arshia Malik fondly recalls her Srinagar school days

  BARAMULLA: A most wanted commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the longest surviving terrorist in Kashmir, was among the two terrorists killed in an encounter with security forces in Baramulla district on Thursday, police said. Five security personnel including an officer were injured in the encounter and three terrorists are still holed up. Police said that […]

SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir anti-terror agency on Sunday arrested Kashmir University scholar Abdul Aala Fazili during a raid here. Fazili is involved in writing a seditious article in ‘Kashmir Walla’ digital magazine. Fazili, officials said, was arrested from his Humhama Budgam residence by SIA after it raided and carried out searches for hours. The SIA, […]

  SRINAGAR: Terrorists abducted and shot dead an Independent sarpanch in Pattan area of Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Friday evening, police said, adding that a massive hunt was launched to track down the attackers. The deceased sarpanch has been identified as Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo, a resident of Gishbugh. “Terrorists fired upon & killed one […]

SRINAGAR: A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and another was injured in a terror attack in Srinagar city, and three civilians including two non-Kashmiris were wounded in two different attacks in southern Kashmir on Monday. Head Constable Vishal Kumar and Assistant Sub-Inspector Niran Jan Singh were critically injured after terrorists […]

SRINAGAR: A Special Police Officer (SPO) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and his brother were shot dead by terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday. This is the third consecutive terror attack in the district this month and the second within a week. The police said that the terrorists […]

SRINAGAR: Four terrorists were killed while one was apprehended in three separate anti-terror operations that broke out on Friday evening in Kashmir valley, Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Zone) Vijay Kumar said. A civilian was injured in one of the operations, he said. The encounters between security forces and terrorists were in progress at three […]

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police has apprehended two terror associates for hurling grenade in a busy market in Amira Kadal area of Srinagar that claimed the lives of two civilians including a minor girl, the police said on Wednesday. A top Army commander said that terrorists have started to task young men to lob grenades […]

One thing one can be sure about the wars is that apart from them being the harbingers of death and destruction; they keep on evolving. With the passage of time, most of the wars that started as conventional wars have now evolved into proxy/hybrid wars. One such war that started in 1947 as a conventional […]