Srinagar, March 16th, 2015: In Srinagar, Parveena Akhtar the wife if a missing civilian told reporters that police raided her house and arrested her husband Tariq with the assurance that he will be released after questioning. Police party informed us that Tariq will be questioned for a burglary incident. “From past one month we had been visiting police station demanding his release, but every time we were forced to leave from the police chowki with an assurance that he will be released tomorrow,” she said.
Feb 9 2015: Haleema Begum is the ill-fated mother of 19-year- old Farooq Ahmad Bhat who was killed in indicriminae firing of Indian paramilitary forces during a processionin Palhalan village in Pattan on February 9. Haleema, the mother of the victims is a housewife and mother of four daughters. Her dear son was killed by forces after she keeps gazing at the main door of her house ."I am waiting for my son to return home and ask for tea. I've four daughters, and the only one son, who left us. Death is certain for anyone.
London, February 26 : The global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI) has said that perpetrators of extra-judicial executions in Jammu and Kashmir continue to evade justice.
The Amnesty in its 2104-15 report on human rights situation in Kashmir highlighted a number of high-profile human right cases including 2010 fake Machil encounter, 2000 Pathribal fake encounter and many other cases to point out failure of authorities to take action against the culprits. Dozens of innocent civilians were killed by Indian troops in these staged-managed encounters.
Srinagar, Sunday, February 15th, 2015 : Indian Army raided the house of a Kashmiri photo journalist,Tajam-ul-Islam, today, on Sunday and ransacked his house after he clicked pictures of Indian army men who were video graphing the protesters at Palhalan in Pattan in Baramulla district on Friday.
Srinagar, Monday, February 9th, 2015: A 23-year old youth was killed and another three were injured when Indian paramiltary forces opened fire on unarmed people at Palhalan Pattan in Baramulla distric.
Press Release 21st January 2015:The 25th anniversary of the Gaw Kadal massacre of around 50 civilians by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and police is also the anniversary of the renewed beginning of the mass uprising of the Kashmiri right to self-determination movement. The journey of these 25 years of resistance also witnessed widespread and systematic use of violence by India. The Gaw Kadal anniversary therefore serves as an important moment to account for State violence and impunity.
Srinagar, 11 December : Kashmiri students who were thrashed by local goons at Global Research Institute of Management and Technology (GRIMT) in India's Haryana fear for their lives after they have again been threatened them.
Srinagar, November 09: In Srinagar, a forum of journalists in Kashmir has strongly condemned the threats issued by former Senior Superintendent of Police and senior People’s Democratic Party leader, Syed Ashiq Hussain Bukhari to the editor of a local daily Kashmir reader and prominent journalist Showket Ahmad Motta.
Srinagar, November 09: In Srinagar, former officer of the counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG), Syed Ashiq Hussain Bukhari, has threatened an editor of a Kashmir Valley-based newspaper to teach him a lesson for “painting a bad picture” of him in a news report.
Bukhari, who retired in February this year as Srinagar’s Senior Superintendent of Police and retained his official phone number, rang up Kashmir Reader Editor Showkat A. Motta in the morning, the other day, to convey the threat.