News Topic:Militancy

A CRPF trooper and a civilian were killed while as three CRPF men were injured after militants attacked a party of paramilitary CRPF on Wednesday morning in north Kashmir’s Sopore town.

June has been the bloodiest month in Jammu and Kashmir as 44 militants have been killed in 26 days so far.

A lone protester Zahoor Ahmed Mir from Nishat area of Srinagar outskirts staged a protest here at Press Enclave Srinagar, demanding stern punishment to infamous gunman Papa Kishtwari for killing his father.

Hilal Ahmad Dar, who is pursuing doctorate at University of Kashmir, is fourth scholar in Kashmir who has ‘joined’ militancy since 2016.

The top officials of the Jammu and Kashmir’s security grid Friday said that in the next few months, the will try to ensure that normalcy is fully restored across the Valley so that people resume the activities of their choice in peaceful manner.

A purported video is viral in which a family from south Kashmir’s Shopian district makes a fervent appeal to their militant son, just 17 years old, to return home for the sake of his elderly parents.

In an audio clip, which has gone viral, a youth from Shopian has claimed that he has been “forced” to join militant ranks by a deputy Superintendent of Police in south Kashmir's Shopian district whom he accused of torturing and committing incessant atrocities.

Probably for the first time since the eruption of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the number of militants killed is equal to the number of casualties suffered by government forces in a single month of any year.