The Latest Breaking News from Kashmir

‘Arbitrary and excessive’: CPJ on Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri journalist being stopped from travelling to US

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for Indian authorities to allow Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo to travel abroad.

Newslaundry · Oct 19, 2022

Uttar Pradesh: Anger in Kannauj village after terrorists kill two of its natives in Kashmir Valley

KANPUR: Anger swept across Dannapurwa village in Kannauj after news of the killing of two of its natives in a grenade attack in Shopian of Kashmir Valley arrived on Tuesday. The villagers demanded that the terrorists responsible for the barbaric act should not be spared and terrorism should be wiped…

The Times of India · Oct 18, 2022

2 Indian laborers killed in Kashmir grenade attack

Police say two Indian laborers have been killed in a grenade attack in disputed Kashmir, two days after assailants fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

India axes rule on Kashmir voting rights after political parties' outcry

India scrapped on Thursday a rule granting voting rights to new residents of its Jammu and Kashmir region after widespread anger among political parties, who labelled it a bid to change the demographics of the country's only Muslim-majority region.

Reuters · Oct 13, 2022

'Frivolous': India slams 's attempt to raise Kashmir during UNGA Ukraine vote

UNITED NATIONS: India slammed Pakistan for raising the issue of Kashmir during an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on the Ukraine conflict, saying such statements by Islamabad deserve the "collective contempt" of the international community and "sympathy for a mindset which repeatedly utters falsehoods".

The Times of India · Oct 13, 2022

Parties cry foul over rule change allowing new residents to vote in disputed Kashmir

A new rule that allows new residents of the contested Jammu and Kashmir region to register as voters has angered political parties who say it is an attempt by India to change the demographics of the Muslim-majority region.

Reuters · Oct 12, 2022

Nehru’s role in Kashmir: BJP, Congress spar over Modi’s remarks

NEW DELHI: The BJP and the Congress have clashed head-on over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in Jammu and Kashmir. While the BJP has defended first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress has come to the rescue of Nehru.

The Times of India · Oct 12, 2022

Kashmir pro-freedom leader Altaf Ahmad Shah dies in India custody

Family of Shah, who had renal cancer, alleges he was denied proper medical treatment in jail despite repeated appeals.

Al Jazeera · Oct 11, 2022

AP PHOTOS: Fewer willows worry Kashmir’s cricket bat makers

Lines of shops display neat stacks of willow wood along a nondescript motorway in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Sangam village. Behind the shops are small manufacturing units, where that willow is hand-made into cricket bats that find their way to India and cricket-playing nations around the world.

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2022

PM Modi says he is walking in footsteps of Sardar Patel, targets Nehru over Kashmir

PM Modi said in 20 years, the BJP Government doubled the electricity production in Gujarat

The Hindu · Oct 10, 2022