COVID-19 is taking a terrible toll worldwide. But in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, it’s only the latest indignity in a 73-year cycle of oppression, militarization and scarcity. At least, that’s ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire and shelling along their highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing an Indian border guard, officials said Thursday ...
The first full year after the landmark election reveals how old habits, unmet pledges, and public memory are shaping ...
PULWAMA, India — Men and women filed into gender-segregated lines, huddling in shawls early Wednesday morning in this Himalayan territory. Many prepared to do something that they’d never done before: ...
Kashmir’s tourism sector is slowly finding its footing again as tourists begin to return to the valley, though numbers are still relatively small. The recent ...
NEW DELHI – With India's national elections barely months away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under heavy pressure from his supporters to punish nuclear-rival Pakistan for a suicide attack on an ...
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s changed tone reflects a changed Kashmir where space for dissent has shrunk, say analysts. Even a top religious leader must measure his words. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir's top ...
The rivers of the Kashmir region feed into the Indian subcontinent, including the Indus and its tributaries – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej. India and Pakistan are heavily reliant on these ...
In Ganderbal district's Sonamarg, residents and tourists were spotted soaking in the winter magic as snow coated vehicles, ...
Since 1947, India and Pakistan have been locked in conflict over Kashmir, a majority-Muslim region in the northernmost part of India. The mountainous, 86,000-square-mile territory was once a princely ...
The announcement of a unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on May 15, 2018 came four years after the Indian central government’s iron-fist strategy to finish off ...