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A Hindu bank manager was shot in what police called a "terror incident" in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday. At least 16 people, both Hindu and Muslim, have been killed in a series of targeted attacks this year in Kashmir, where India has been fighting an armed insurgency since the late ...

During the sentencing of Kashmiri pro-independence leader Yasin Malik on Wednesday, authorities in India-administered Kashmir blocked mobile internet services and cracked down on Malik's supporters who protested in Srinagar. Some marched through the streets of Kashmir's largest city, chanting "We want freedom" and "Go back, India." Government forces fired ...

Traders in India-administered Kashmir are demanding authorities reopen trade routes with Pakistan as the prices of goods and food continue to skyrocket. In 2008, India and Pakistan opened trade across the "Line of Control (LoC)," a heavily militarized de-facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The move was ...

In early March, the Indian government announced it would reestablish Village Defense Committees (VDCs) to fight "anti-India militancy" in conflict-torn India-administered Kashmir. The decision has alarmed locals, some of whom say they have been victims of violence at the hands of VDC members. Salma Chowdhary is a mother of ...

Every morning before sunrise, 36-year-old fisherman Naseer Dar takes his boat out to Lake Wular, one of the largest freshwater lakes in Indian-administered Kashmir. Overlooked by the Himalayas, the lake spreads over 130-square-kilometers between the Baramulla and Bandipora districts in north Kashmir.  Thousands of Kasmiris depend on the lake's fish ...

On a summer morning in 2020, 25-year-old Abrar Chouhan rose early to play with his son before leaving his village in Indian-administered Kashmir to work as a seasonal laborer in an apple orchard. He knew he wouldn't see his family for some time as he headed off to work ...

Mushtaq Ahmad Wani cried out for public support after Indian security forces refused to return the body of his teenage son, who was killed in a controversial operation on the outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. "Today it's about my son. Tomorrow it will be your son as well," ...

A recent spate of killings of migrant laborers in India-administered Kashmir has triggered a widespread emigration out of the region, shaking supply chains and bringing some industrial activity to a halt. Fears of a demographic change among the Muslim-majority population are behind the killings in the region, which largely ...

As the paddy harvest season nears its end with the onset of winter, Dilshada Bilal, 35, is busy producing earthenware, including fire pots and electric cooking heaters. Her modest workshop in the village of Larm-Ganjipora in southern Kashmir's Anantnag district has a potter's wheel, an oven, and storage space for ...

Last week, two Hindu schoolteachers and a pharmacist in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar were killed by militants who claimed their victims were right-wing Hindu nationalists implementing New Delhi's "occupation designs" for Kashmir. Their deaths are part of a recent spate of killings, which are being blamed on an Islamist ...