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Posted by Kashmir Life on July 22, 2013 :In Gulshani Banat Hostel in Budgam’s Chadoora area, around 100 orphan girls are enrolled for learning. Some of these daughters have lost their parents to ill-timed fate, but most lost to ‘conflict’ back Valley. Kashmir Life’s Photojournalist, Bilal Bahadur tells visual story of orphan daughters of vale.

Srinagar, 7 May 2013: Amid protest demonstrations, complete shutdown was observed on Tuesday in Wuyen Bala village of Pampore in South Kashmir against the establishment of another Indian Army camp in residential area.
Hundreds of people including women and students, came on roads, raised anti-Army and anti-government slogans, and demanded immediate withdrawal of Indian Army from the area.

On October 13, 1983, Mushtaq Ahmed Bhat alias Mushtaq-ul-Islam of Batamaloo, Srinagar was arrested by the police at cricket stadium in Srinagar for allegedly trying to dig the pitch during one day international match between India and West Indies.

By Martin Banks - 6th May 2013:  UK MEP Sajjad Karim has called for an investigation following the discovery of 'mass graves' in Kashmir.The centre right deputy has also condemned EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton for her "muted" response to demands that those responsible be brought to justice. His comments come with the launch of a petition to the EU designed to highlight the current situation in Kashmir, a mountainous region which has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years.

Srinagar May 03, 2013: The Jammu & Kashmir Young Journalists Association (JKYJA) has held an important meeting at its office situated at Lal Chowk Srinagar to celebrate the 20 th annual World Press Freedom Day Journalists  and remembered those fearless journalists  who have died for their cause.

Srinagar, April 01, 2013:  In Srinagar, Doctors has said that the use of non-lethal weapons by Indian forces and police men had increased heart and other health problems in Kashmir.
Stories are increasingly common in Kashmir where government forces use an array of ‘non-lethal’ weapons against protesters, said a doctor. Scores if not hundreds of people have been injured by weapons including marbles fired from slingshots, pellet guns and the so-called pepper grenades which are packed with chemicals and a capsaicinoid concentrate.

Srinagar, Mar 27, 2013: A 16 year old boy was injured in a littered explosive blast in Baramulla district. 16-year-old Mohammad Maqsood Mir son of  Mohammad Afzal Mir  was injured after some explosive went off when he was clearing the field at Danisayyidan in Uri area of the district, a senior police officer in Baramulla told media men. He said Masood received injuries in the leg and was hospitalized.

Srinagar, Thu, 28 March 2013 : In Srinagar, the Civil society on Wednesday debated the draft of the  ‘Police Bill 2013’ and most of them agreed that the bill if passed was aimed at giving  arbitrary power to the police for legalising authoritie’s suppression on the people of Kashmir.
 A seminar, ‘Martyr Jalil Andrabi, A victim of human rights violation’ and ‘Police Bill 2013, was held at the lower Court complex in which eminent lawyers, civil society members, writers and leader spoke on these topics.

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.

Brussels, March 30 : The International Council for Human Rights (ICHR) and International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM) hosted a full day conference entitled Protecting & Promoting Women’s Rights at Palais des Nations in Geneva on 7th of March 2013.