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Tag: Shopian

Members of Shopian-based charity Rehmatal-lil-alameen, an Islam-inspired community support group that feeds, educates and provides medicine to needy people in the district. Photo: Anando Bhakto
Posted inIndia, South Asia, World

Fighting poverty with Islam in ‘militant-hotbed’ Shopian

by Anando Bhakto June 5, 2018February 18, 2020

In the unruly city center in Shopian, a district swarming with militants in restive Kashmir in India’s far north, thick coats of paint camouflage the graffiti on shops and houses. Locals say young boys lay bare their longing for “freedom” in mutinous words every day. Soldiers erase them swiftly. But despite obvious conflict, Shopian brims […]

A file image of Professor Muhammad Rai Bhat, who was killed in clashes with police on Sunday in Shopian. Details about the circumstances of his death are still unclear. Photo: Majid Hyderi
Posted inIndia, South Asia

Kashmiri professor-turned militant killed within 48 hours

by Majid Hyderi May 8, 2018February 18, 2020
Army personnel taking position during encounter at Hajin area of Bandipora district of north Kashmir, where one LeT Militant got killed in a  gunfight with security forces, on March 01, 2018. The Times of India/Bilal Bahadur
Posted inIndia, South Asia

Security forces to make a big killing after Kashmir clashes

by Majid Hyderi April 2, 2018February 18, 2020
Relatives of Suhail Ahmad Wagay, a 'civilian', who local media say died in a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian security forces, mourn during his funeral procession at Pinjoora in Kashmir's Shopian district on March 5, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail
Posted inIndia, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Latest Kashmir killings raise questions over ‘army impunity’

by Majid Hyderi March 7, 2018February 18, 2020

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