South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, March 29: A Kashmiri youth, who the Indian police claim planning a suicide attack in the territory, was arrested by the Indian army in 2003 and was untraced ever since, his frantic mother has disclosed. Holding protests along with her Lawaypora family at the Press Enclave in Srinagar, Farida Bano said that her son, Shaukat Ahmad Paul, was picked up by an Indian army officer, Major Pratap of the Kilo Force in 2003.
She was reacting to a media report quoting the Indian police that Paul was planning a suicide attack in Srinagar.

Srinagar, March 29,2013:  Classrooms, computer and stenography labs of the Industrial Training Institute Pattan in Baramulla district have been turned into the bedrooms of Indian paramilitary Central Reserver Police Force (CRPF) personnel.

 
 
Srinagar, March 30, 2013:  Dozens of Kashmiri students were thrashed in  Indian southern city Bangalore on Saturday. Blaming Bangalore police, the Kashmiri students said that they were detained by the police when they approched them to register a complaint in a police station.   

Srinagar, Wed, 13 Mar 2013: A 37-year-old civilian, Altaf Ahmad Wani son of Abdul Ahad Wani, resident of Saidpora, Eidgah a lone bread earner of his family was killed when 73 battalion of Indian paramilitary Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel opened fire at Zoonimar-Saidpora in Srinagaron Wednesday( Mar

 
Thursday, February 6, 2013: Pulling it up sharply for failing to act on its last year’s orders on the 2010 agitation victims, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has given last opportunity to the authorities to explain rationale behind referring only 17 of over 120 cases of killing of civilians to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI).

Srinagar, Jan 30, 2013: An Indian army officer Naib Subedar (JCO) of Army's Territorial Battalion 163 TA Bn, kidnapped a minor girl student on Jan 27 from Dahargulun in Pattan and raped her in a hotel in Mendhar in Rajouri. 

 Srinagar, December 11,2012: A Kashmiri youth taj, son of Mohammad Yousaf of Marrah, Surankote has been acquitted by a court after losing over 8 years in jail.
According to the police claim as they filed case, on June 7, 2004 Taj, son of Mohammad Yousaf of Marrah, Surankote along with five-six other militants barged into a house at Khaitan Draba and started indiscriminate firing on three SPOs including Mushtaq Ahmed, son of Nazir Hussain of Khaitan Draba. In the firing, Mushtaq Ahmed died while as other two SPOs managed to escape from the house.

Srinagar, Sat, 18 August 2012: Fishermen eking their livelihood by working in Wullar lake in Bandipora-Sopore has said that Indian Navy marine commandos (Marcos) of harassing them on baseless pretexts.

Thousands of villagers dwell on the banks of world famous water body and considered as Asia’s 2nd largest fresh water lake get their livelihood by fishing or by collecting water chestnuts from the lake every day.