by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 26, 2017 | World
Indian security forces in the Kashmir Valley shot dead two militants after an hours-long gun battle for control of a government compound in which eight policemen were also killed, the state’s top police official said. The shootout ensued after the militants stormed...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 17, 2017 | World
Washington- The United States on Wednesday said it had sanctioned ‘Hizbul Mujahideen’, the largest of the anti-Indian Kashmiri militant groups. The US Treasury Department, in a statement on its website reported by Reuters, said it had listed the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 3, 2017 | World
The Pakistani military said on Saturday its troops had killed five Indian soldiers in retaliation to Indian firing along the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir. Pakistan on Friday accused Indian troops of shooting without provocation in Nezapir sector, wounding two...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 13, 2017 | World
A father and daughter were killed on Saturday after Pakistani troops fired across the de facto border in the Indian part of the disputed Kashmir region, an Indian military spokesman announced. Three of their relatives were wounded when mortar bombs hit parts of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 1, 2017 | World
India’s security forces lost five policemen shot dead in a bank raid in disputed Kashmir and two soldiers killed in an attack along the border with Pakistan. Suspected militants opened fire on a bank van carrying cash around 70 kilometers south of...