What government data says – and doesn’t – about militancy in J&K since the scrapping of Article 370

While there has been a clear drop in militant violence, the figures revealed some worrying trends.

Safwat Zargar

· Jan 19, 2023 · 06:30 am

‘Don’t need lessons from failed state’: India criticises Pakistan’s remarks on Kashmir at UNHRC

Pakistan has been globally recognised as a country that openly supports terrorists, the Indian representative claimed.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 16, 2021 · 11:00 am

‘No locus standi’: India criticises Islamabad for holding elections in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

The elections were an attempt by Pakistan to ‘camouflage its illegal occupation’ of the region, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 30, 2021 · 03:25 pm

Pakistan will let people of Kashmir decide if they want to join us or become independent: Imran Khan

Khan on Friday said that a day would come when Kashmiris would be allowed to decide their future as per UN resolutions.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 24, 2021 · 06:51 pm

Imran Khan unveils new map showing J&K, Junagadh in Pakistan; India ridicules move

The Indian government said that the release of the new map shows Pakistan’s ‘obsession with territorial aggrandizement’ through cross-border terrorism.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 04, 2020 · 08:55 pm

‘Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat, insaniyat’: How accurate are Amit Shah’s claims about Jammu and Kashmir?

Laying out his government’s Kashmir policy, the home minister waxed eloquent on the health benefits of one year of Central rule.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jul 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

Among seven civilians killed in Kashmir, a cricket crazy teen, a commerce student, a young father

Doctors say most of the civilians killed in Pulwama on Saturday had upper-body injuries.

Safwat Zargar

· Dec 16, 2018 · 11:50 am

How the conflict in Kashmir has taken a heavy toll on people with mental health problems

The military is documented to have shot dead at least 18 such persons in the last 15 years, one of them this month.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 14, 2018 · 06:30 am

View from the Kashmir Observer: Young, urban and educated – the new breed of militants in the Valley

The government, meanwhile, remains oblivious to these signs of growing alienation.

Kashmir Observer

· Oct 26, 2018 · 08:30 pm

‘Militants have the pulse of the people’: In South Kashmir, killings of policemen generate no anger

Constable Saleem Shah’s funeral had a thinner attendance than those of three militants believed to have killed him.

Rayan Naqash

· Jul 29, 2018 · 06:30 am

‘Development, development, development’: Modi repeats an old fallacy in Kashmir

Railways and roads have not brought peace to the Valley in the past.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· May 20, 2018 · 09:41 pm

New Indian army check post may have sparked LoC hostilities, say residents fleeing Pakistan shelling

The villages on the Line of Control in Uri in North Kashmir have witnessed intense shelling over the last week.

Rayan Naqash

· Feb 26, 2018 · 05:15 pm