minority community members.... Within two hours of the killing of Makhan Lal Bindroo on Oct....

This month, militants barged into his shop in a bustling market and shot him four times at point-blank range.“ He died before reaching the hospital, ” his son, Siddharth, said. The others killed included two schoolteachers and a street hawker.... Nine militants have been killed in gunfights in recent days.... One of those who left last week was Sunny Raina, a government engineer living in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town....

BANGALORE-A spate of targeted civilian killings in Kashmir has sparked fears of militancy across the conflict-torn region, and caused widespread unease among the minority Hindu and Sikh communities. Unlike attacks in the past decades where Muslims, accounting for 68 per cent of the region's population, had usually been the victims, the attacks this month targeted more minorities than Muslims. One principal and her teacher, a pharmacist, a street food vendor and a taxi driver were among the seven