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Admin appoints nodal officers for successful implementation of ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ in Jammu Kashmir
News Desk | The KashmiriyatThe Jammu Kashmir administration Saturday appointed nodal officers in all districts of the region for the “successful”...
India top court: Nupur Sharma must apologise for prophet remarks
Source: Al Jazeera and News AgenciesSharma’s ‘loose tongue set the country on fire’, says the Supreme Court, while hearing complaints against the ex-BJP...
Pulitzer winner Kashmir journalist says barred from flying abroad
Al Jazeera Staff | Al Jazeera Sanna Irshad Mattoo tells Al Jazeera she was stopped from going to Paris to attend a book launch and photography exhibition. A...
Press freedom chilled in Kashmir as reporting is ‘criminalized’
Nusrat Sidiq | NBC News Journalists in the disputed Indian territory say they face an atmosphere of intimidation that is hampering their work or driving them...
Who is Mohammed Zubair, Indian journalist arrested by Modi gov’t?
Bilal Kuchay | Al Jazeera Alt News co-founder has long been in the BJP’s crosshairs for his relentless debunking of fake news and false claims pushed by...
Teesta Setalvad who fought for 2002 Gujarat riot victims arrested
Zafar Aafaq | Al JazeeraRights groups say the arrest of Setalvad, who campaigned to get justice for the 2002 Gujarat riot victims, will have a ‘chilling...
Digital advertising trucks in Washington flash messages: Free Yasin & Free Khurram
World News TV UKWashington, D.C. Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), a Washington-based advocacy group, rented digital...
Rohingya families in Kashmir fear separation as India cracks down
Al Jazeera Staff | Al JazeeraRefugees say the fear of separation from families is greater than the fear of being deported back to Myanmar.It has been more...
India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed ‘illegally’
Zafar Aafaq | Al JazeeraYoung Muslim activist’s house demolished after her father is arrested by the police for being alleged ‘mastermind’ of protests over...
UAE joins Muslim nations in condemning India over Prophet remarks
Source: Al Jazeera and News AgenciesThe UAE foreign ministry says the BJP officials’ comments were ‘contrary to moral and humanitarian values and principles’....
Yasin Malik: The most recognizable leader of Kashmir: WKAF
World Kashmir Awareness Forum On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (Shawwal 24, 1443), one of the most influential, recognizable, and revered political leaders of...
World Kashmir Awareness Forum Condemns the Indian Government’s Decision to Sentence Kashmir Liberation Front Leader Muhammad Yasin Malik to Life in Prison
Washington, DC (May 25, 2022) - The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKA) issued the following statement on Indian government’s sentencing of Muhammad Yasin...
India rejects OIC’s criticism on Yasin Malik’s life imprisonment
News Desk | Free Press KashmirNew Delhi: India on Friday rejected the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) criticism of the life imprisonment given to...
‘Seditious’ article probe: JIC gets Kashmir journalist’s custody
Express News Service | The Indian Express After being booked in different cases by three districts — Pulwama, Shopian and Srinagar — Shah was subsequently...
Jailed J&K activist, Khurram Parvez, among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people
News Desk | Free Press Kashmir Srinagar: A prominent Kashmiri Human Rights activist Khurram Parvez, who is currently in a Delhi jail facing “terrorism and...
Article: The Kashmir Files: Myth or reality (Part 4)
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai | Kashmir Media Service NewsDr. Ghulam Nabi Fai is the Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum. He can be reached at...
The Kashmir Files: Myth or reality – Part 3
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai | 24 News HDDr. Ghulam Nabi Fai is the Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum. He can be reached at 1-202-607-6435 or...
Indian court convicts Kashmiri rebel leader of terrorism
Ashok Sharma | AP NewsNEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Thursday convicted a top Kashmiri separatist leader in a terrorism-related case that carries a...
Yasin Malik: India convicts top Kashmir separatist of ‘terrorism’
News Agencies | Al JazeeraThe charge against the founder of JKLF rebel group carries a maximum sentence of death penalty or life imprisonment.An Indian court...
Pakistan summons Indian Charge d’Affaires over framing of ‘fabricated’ charges against Yasin Malik
News Desk | Free Press KashmirPakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan and handed over a demarche to him...
After Gyanvapi mosque seal, Plea filed in Mathura court to close Shahi Idgah Mosque
News Desk | Free Press KashmirMathura: Days after Varanasi court ordered sealing of a part of Gyanvapi mosque, a plea has been filed before a local court in...
British Govt monitoring Yasin Malik’s trial, says UK Minister
News Desk | Free Press KashmirThe British government of the Conservative party told the House of Lords on Tuesday that it is monitoring the trial of Indian...
Yasin Malik is convicted by the NIA court for a militancy funding case
News Desk | Free Press Kashmir New Delhi: A court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday convicted Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik a week after he...
JK Administration to terminate KU staff over militancy links
News Desk| Free Press KashmirSrinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration is likely to terminate around a dozen teachers and non-teaching staff from the...
OIC expresses ‘deep concern’ over delimitation exercise in JK
News Desk | Free Press KashmirThe General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday expressed “deep concern” over India’s...
Pakistan’s parliament passes resolution denouncing Delimitation exercise in Jammu Kashmir
News Desk | Photo- Mehran Bhat | The KashmiriyatPakistan’s Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the alleged Indian attempt of...
The Kashmir Files: Myth or reality
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai | World News TV UK‘Early reviews in the Indian media had found the film deeply Islamophobic, dishonest, and a provocation.’ Sanjay Kak,...
The Kashmir Files: Myth or reality Part-2
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai | World News TV UKTobeya Ibitayo, writer and columnist of St. Louis Magazine’s Culture newsletter, USA asked internationally known Indian...
India’s Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr amid attacks on community
By Associated Press | The Washington PostSRINAGAR, India — Muslims across India marked Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday by offering prayers outside mosques, with the...
J&K HC rules that Kashmiris are no longer allowed to use terms such as “military occupation”
News Desk | Free Press Kashmir Srinagar: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh last week held that statements that Kashmir is occupied by the...
EGI demands immediate release of journalist Kishore
KT News Service | Kashmir TimesNEW DELHI, Mar 03: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Thursday demanded “immediate” release of a journalist who was recently...
‘OGW of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind’: Inside PSA dossier of journalist Aasif Sultan
Junaid Kathju | The Kashmir Walla Srinagar: “[You] may plan some major terror act”; “Over Ground Worker [OGW] of banned Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind”; “aiding the...
Boy drowns after being chased by police in Budgam, police says the case is under investigation
Budgam: On Friday afternoon, a seventeen-year-old drowned in a rivulet as police was chasing a group of protestors who allegedly pelted stones at them in...
Seven killed in Kashmir before India PM Modi’s visit
Modi is scheduled to speak Sunday in his first public event since his government stripped Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status.Six alleged rebels and an Indian...
US Congressman expresses concern over Human Rights situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir
New Delhi: A prominent American Congressman has expressed concern over the human rights situation in Kashmir and emphasised that the US government must make...
US congresswoman visits Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir, draws India’s ire
Abu Arqam Naqash and Krishna N. Das | Reuters MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, April 21 (Reuters) - Congresswoman Ilhan Omar made a rare visit by a U.S. lawmaker to...
Can Narendra Modi stop hate speech in India?
From: Inside Story | Al JazeeraRIghts groups say violence against minorities has risen since Narendra Modi became prime minister. India’s history contains...
Hoax bomb call halts flight at Srinagar Airport
A hoax bomb call led to the halting of a flight at Srinagar International airport this evening, officials said. A Top police officer said that at evening...
Inspired By ‘The Kashmir Files,’ Hindu Extremists Threaten To Remove Muslims From Uttarakhand Village
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) Hindu extremists in an Uttarakhand village have made serious threats against the local Muslim community, inspired by the...