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The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, [13] [30] a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
However, a report by the US State Department said, "Indian authorities use Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to avoid holding its security forces responsible for the deaths of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir." [23] Militant violence in the 1990s, led by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front against Kashmiri Hindu Pandits has led to the exodus ...
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed territory administered by India, are an ongoing issue.The allegations range from mass killings, forced disappearances, [11] torture, [12] rape and sexual abuse [13] to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings. [14]
A surge in violence in Indian Kashmir in recent weeks, including a spate of militant attacks on civilians and a widespread crackdown by security forces, has left 33 people dead in the heavily ...
SRINAGAR (Reuters) -Police in India's territory of Jammu and Kashmir blamed arch rival Pakistan on Wednesday for a spate of militant attacks that has killed 12 people and injured dozens over the ...
IED blast on the Jammu Srinagar national highway 8 [5] 22 November IED blast in Srinagar Lashkar-e-Taiba 6 23 November IED blast at Lower Munda on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. 19 24 November Secoind Raghunath temple attacks: Lashkar-e-Taiba 14 5 December Assassination of Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone, brother of Mushtaq Lone. 1 20 December
Present day district map of Jammu and Kashmir. Scholar Ian Copland tries to estimate how many Muslims might have been killed in the Jammu violence based on demographic data. If the headcount figure of 333,964 refugees from the Indian-administered parts of the state [55] is used to calculate an estimate, one ends up with a surplus rather than a ...
The 2010 Kashmir unrest was a series of violent protests and riots in the Kashmir Division, Chenab Valley and Pir Panjal regions of Northern Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It began in June 2010 after the Indian Army claimed to have killed three Pakistani infiltrators. [ 4 ]