fellow villagers shouting that water was coming from the nearby foothills in southern Kulgam area in

indiscriminately" in the southern district of Kulgam, with a third laborer critically wounded and

of the Ellaquai Dehati Bank in southern Kashmir's Kulgam, where a schoolteacher was shot dead on

Bank in Kulgam town this month and killed the manager, who came from the desert state of Rajasthan

LAHORE: Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has condemned extrajudicial killing of five Kashmiris, saying it appears to be the Modi government’s plan to eliminate the identity of Kashmiris.“ Extra-judicial killings of five more Kashmiris by Indian occupation forces is the result of the world turning a blind eye to the worst human rights abuses in IOK, ” Mr Sharif said in a tweet on Thursday. The PML-N president further said: “ BJP-RSS combine is working on a multi-pronged sinis

SRINAGAR: Assailants fatally shot a husband and wife who were both politicians for India’s governing party in held Kashmir, police said, blaming rebels fighting against Indian rule for the attack. Police said armed men entered the home of Ghulam Rasool Dar in southern Anantnag town on Monday and fired at him and his wife.... Doctors declared them dead at a hospital. Dar was the local president of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s farmers wing.... Among those killed was a top BJP politicia

Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of four Kashmiri youth during cordon and search operations( CASOs) in Indian-occupied Kashmir's( IoK) Shopian district this week, according to a statement issued from the Foreign Office( FO).... " The valiant Kashmiri youth is, however, resolutely committed to their just cause and no amount of brutalities can dampen their unbreakable resolve," the FO statement said.... " Notably, Kashmiri youth have been a specific target of th

SRINAGAR, India( Reuters)-Indian forces in Kashmir killed two militants on Wednesday, one them suspected of gunning down a bank manager this month, police said, part of a stepped-up counter-insurgency effort that has triggered an exodus from the Muslim-majority region. India has been fighting an Islamist separatist insurgency in Kashmir since the late 1980s.... Muslim Pakistan also claims the region over which the nuclear-armed neighbours have fought two of their three wars." Indian troops kill

Indian security officials have said that some of the assassinations have been carried out by The Resistance Front( TRF), which they describe as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group, and Hizbul Mujahideen, a group traditionally made up of local fighters.... The assassinations have spread panic among some sections of the population, with scores of minority Hindus and migrant workers fleeing the Kashmir valley towards Jammu and other areas.... " she said.( Reporting by Dev