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India’s crackdown hits religious freedom in disputed Kashmir
The call to prayer at the central mosque in disputed Kashmir’s largest city has been silent for four months.
 
No Kashmiri flag, constitution under Indian-imposed changes
India has formally implemented legislation that removes Indian-controlled Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status and begins direct federal rule of the disputed area.
 
European Parliament members in Kashmir in rare foreign visit
A group of European Parliament members has arrived in disputed Kashmir, the first foreign delegation to travel to the region since India stripped it of its semi-autonomous status and imposed a harsh crackdown in early August.
 
Indian troops kill 3 senior Kashmiri militants
Police say Indian forces have killed a top militant commander and his two associates in a counterinsurgency operation in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
 
India, Pakistan exchange fire in Kashmir, killing 9
Pakistani and Indian soldiers have traded fire in disputed Kashmir, killing at least nine people on both sides.
 
Police arrest Kashmir protesters, rebels kill truck driver
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested 13 women for holding an anti-India protest and two suspected militants shot and killed a truck driver near an apple orchard where he had picked up fruit boxes.
 
India restores post-paid cellphone services in Kashmir
Postpaid cellphone services have been restored in India-administered Kashmir, more than two months after India’s government downgraded the region’s semi-autonomy and imposed a security and communications lockdown.
 
India to allow tourists back into locked-down Kashmir
Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir say they will allow tourists back into the region two months after ordering them to leave because of security concerns amid an Indian crackdown.
 
Kashmir tensions intensify amid India-Pakistan skirmishes
Tensions have soared along the volatile, highly militarized frontier between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, as India deployed more troops and ordered thousands of visitors out of the region.
 
India orders students, tourists out of Kashmir for security
Thousands of Indians are fleeing Kashmir after the government ordered tourists and Hindu pilgrims visiting a Himalayan cave shrine “to curtail their stay” in the disputed territory, citing security concerns.
 
India troop buildup, tourist advisory up Kashmir tension
A government order in Indian-controlled Kashmir is asking tourists and Hindu pilgrims “to curtail their stay” in the disputed region, citing security concerns and intensifying tensions.
 
Indian court jails 3 for life in rape case in Kashmir
A court has sentenced three Hindu men, including a police officer, to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashmir, in a case that has exacerbated tensions in the disputed region.
 
India bans key highway in Kashmir for 2 days a week
Authorities in India’s portion of disputed Kashmir have begun enforcing a twice-weekly ban on the movement of civilian vehicles on a key highway to keep it open exclusively for military and paramilitary convoys.
 
Pakistan says 2 Indian warplanes downed, pilot captured
Pakistan’s military says it shot down two Indian warplanes in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured a pilot, answering an airstrike a day earlier by Indian aircraft inside Pakistan and raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals to a level unseen in the last two decades.
 
Tensions rising after Kashmir attack as gunbattle kills 9
Tensions have escalated since a suicide attack in disputed Kashmir, with nine people killed in a gunbattle Monday as Indian soldiers searched for militants. The deadly bombing last week has increased communal tensions in Hindu-majority India.
 
Indian troops enforce lockdown to foil Kashmir protest march
Soldiers and police are enforcing a security lockdown to foil a march toward India’s military headquarters in disputed Kashmir in protest of the killings of seven civilians and three rebels in a weekend counterinsurgency operation.
 
Strike, lockdown shut Kashmir amid anger over killings
A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule has shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir a day after chaotic protests and fighting killed seven civilians and four combatants.
 
Thousands flock to funeral of 2 teenage Kashmir rebels
Thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir have joined a funeral procession for two teenage rebels who were killed over the weekend in a long gunbattle with Indian troops in the disputed region.
 
Fighting in Kashmir city leaves 3 combatants, civilian dead
Residents and police say anti-India protests and clashes have erupted in the main city in disputed Kashmir shortly after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two rebels, a civilian and a counterinsurgency police official.
 
Mob lynches Muslim man over cow smuggling charges in India
Police say a Muslim man has been beaten to death by a mob in western India over allegations of smuggling cows despite calls by the country’s highest court for immediate steps to stop such deadly violence.
 
Anti-India protests erupt in Kashmir amid deadly fighting
Massive anti-India protests have erupted in several parts of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir amid fierce fighting between rebels and government forces that left at least 12 militants and three army soldiers dead.
 
Kashmir fighting escalates between India, Pakistan
Indian and Pakistani troops have traded fire along their volatile frontier in Kashmir, killing at least five civilians and a soldier in the latest escalation of violence in the disputed region.
 
Pakistan says Indian forces kill 3 soldiers in Kashmir
Pakistan says Indian forces killed three of its soldiers near the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region.
 
Ambushes by Indian troops, Kashmir rebels kill 4 combatants
Police say a pair of ambushes by Indian government forces and Kashmiri rebels have killed two soldiers and two militants in the disputed Himalayan region. Police director-general S.P.
 
Al-Qaida says it has group in Kashmir to fight Indian rule
Al-Qaida said for the first time it is active in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, announcing that a local Kashmiri militant would lead a new outfit of fighters opposing Indian rule in the disputed region.
 
Army firing kills Kashmir man during anti-India strike
Police and residents say the Indian army fired at worshippers outside a mosque in disputed Kashmir, killing one man and wounding another after some threw rocks.
 
India police warned weeks ago of attack on Hindus in Kashmir
As India’s government blamed separatist rebels for gunning down seven Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir, rebel groups in the disputed region have condemned the rare, deadly attack on civilians and insisted they had no part in it.
 
Suspected rebels kill at least 7 Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir
Police say gunmen sprayed bullets on a passenger bus bringing Hindu pilgrims back from a cave shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least seven of them, including five women, and wounding 14 others.
 
Kashmir civilian killed, 7 injured during anti-India protest
Police say a 70-year-old civilian was killed and seven people were injured during an anti-India protest that erupted after a gunbattle that killed three Indian soldiers and two suspected rebels in disputed Kashmir.
 
India bans social media sites to quell unrest in Kashmir
India has banned 22 social media sites in Kashmir in an attempt to quell unrest, but the local telecom is struggling to shut them down.
 
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