Kashmir Pellet Guns

Doctors on Wednesday successfully removed the pellet lodged in the right eye of an 18-month-old girl, Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir who was injured after getting hit inside her house last month.

Eighteen-month-old Hiba Nisar, the infant who was injured with pellet gun fire in Shopian, has been discharged from hospital after surgery on her right eye. The doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.

Nearly 18 months after Insha Mushtaq became the face of Kashmir's pellet gun tragedy, the 15-year-old has come to symbolise hope and resilience in the Kashmir valley. Once aspiring to be a doctor, the girl was blinded by the pellet gun injuries she had received in the summer of 2016 but nevertheless continued her studies and qualified her class X b...

The CRPF has sent 21,000 rounds of newly-developed and "less lethal" plastic bullets to the Kashmir Valley to tackle street protests, says a top officer of the force.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned why pellet guns and human shields were not used to control mob violence in Haryana, wondering whether the forces kept them "only for protesting Kashmiris", but withdrew his tweets "unconditionally" after deaths were reported in the violence.

Last August was a difficult time in the Kashmir valley. Street protests had broken out in mid-July after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter. And every time the security forces controlled mobs throwing stones with pellet guns, they left people on Kashmir's streets angrier. Thousands had been injured in the protests and much of t...

I do not know what prompted the Bar Association of J&K to approach the Supreme Court for a ban on the use of pellet guns in Kashmir. I am not even privy to the arguments it put fourth for imposing such a ban. But if the plea of the Association came as a surprise, the observations of the court have left me completely baffled.

Skunk water - Israel's weapon of choice for crowd control - is said to smell like a mixture of excrement, noxious gas and a decomposing donkey. And that is what the government is considering for use to break up protests in India. Under attack over the use of pellet guns that wreaked havoc during protests in Kashmir last year, blinding and injuring ...

A grenade packed with spicy jelly, which causes irritation in the eyes on exploding, is likely to be included in the weaponry of security forces in Kashmir for controlling violent protests. Pellet guns will, however, stay.

The controversial pellet gun is going in for a modification to minimise its lethal effects. The shot gun has caused serious injuries, including blinding hundreds of people during the months-long unrest in Kashmir last year. The Central Reserve Police Force or CRPF has now come up with a deflector that will be fit on the muzzle of the gun so that th...

With pellet guns leaving hundreds of protesters in Jammu and Kashmir with severe eye injuries, a modified version of the weapon will now be used to ward off any protest ahead or during any anti-terrorism operations. CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad, who is retiring tomorrow, said the paramilitary force had taken the decision of modifying the pe...

Pellet guns cannot be used "indiscriminately" to control street protests in Kashmir, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The authorities, the court said, can take a decision to use them only after "proper application of mind".

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked security forces to restrain themselves from using pellet guns and differentiate between stone-pelters and their families, while noting that force was used to deal with law and order in the Valley during the recent unrest.

The pellets have almost blinded him in the right eye, but that has not deterred 16-year-old Suhaib Nazir from appearing for his Class 10 board exams. He has, in fact, requested doctors to postpone his second surgery till the end of his exams.

On the outskirts of Srinagar, a government girls school closed for last four months due to the unrest in Kashmir was burnt in a mysterious fire incident on Monday evening. Officials say 18 schools have been set on fire during the current unrest.

Doctors on Wednesday successfully removed the pellet lodged in the right eye of an 18-month-old girl, Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir who was injured after getting hit inside her house last month.

Eighteen-month-old Hiba Nisar, the infant who was injured with pellet gun fire in Shopian, has been discharged from hospital after surgery on her right eye. The doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.

Nearly 18 months after Insha Mushtaq became the face of Kashmir's pellet gun tragedy, the 15-year-old has come to symbolise hope and resilience in the Kashmir valley. Once aspiring to be a doctor, the girl was blinded by the pellet gun injuries she had received in the summer of 2016 but nevertheless continued her studies and qualified her class X b...

The CRPF has sent 21,000 rounds of newly-developed and "less lethal" plastic bullets to the Kashmir Valley to tackle street protests, says a top officer of the force.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned why pellet guns and human shields were not used to control mob violence in Haryana, wondering whether the forces kept them "only for protesting Kashmiris", but withdrew his tweets "unconditionally" after deaths were reported in the violence.

Last August was a difficult time in the Kashmir valley. Street protests had broken out in mid-July after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter. And every time the security forces controlled mobs throwing stones with pellet guns, they left people on Kashmir's streets angrier. Thousands had been injured in the protests and much of t...

I do not know what prompted the Bar Association of J&K to approach the Supreme Court for a ban on the use of pellet guns in Kashmir. I am not even privy to the arguments it put fourth for imposing such a ban. But if the plea of the Association came as a surprise, the observations of the court have left me completely baffled.

Skunk water - Israel's weapon of choice for crowd control - is said to smell like a mixture of excrement, noxious gas and a decomposing donkey. And that is what the government is considering for use to break up protests in India. Under attack over the use of pellet guns that wreaked havoc during protests in Kashmir last year, blinding and injuring ...

A grenade packed with spicy jelly, which causes irritation in the eyes on exploding, is likely to be included in the weaponry of security forces in Kashmir for controlling violent protests. Pellet guns will, however, stay.

The controversial pellet gun is going in for a modification to minimise its lethal effects. The shot gun has caused serious injuries, including blinding hundreds of people during the months-long unrest in Kashmir last year. The Central Reserve Police Force or CRPF has now come up with a deflector that will be fit on the muzzle of the gun so that th...

With pellet guns leaving hundreds of protesters in Jammu and Kashmir with severe eye injuries, a modified version of the weapon will now be used to ward off any protest ahead or during any anti-terrorism operations. CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad, who is retiring tomorrow, said the paramilitary force had taken the decision of modifying the pe...

Pellet guns cannot be used "indiscriminately" to control street protests in Kashmir, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The authorities, the court said, can take a decision to use them only after "proper application of mind".

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked security forces to restrain themselves from using pellet guns and differentiate between stone-pelters and their families, while noting that force was used to deal with law and order in the Valley during the recent unrest.

The pellets have almost blinded him in the right eye, but that has not deterred 16-year-old Suhaib Nazir from appearing for his Class 10 board exams. He has, in fact, requested doctors to postpone his second surgery till the end of his exams.

On the outskirts of Srinagar, a government girls school closed for last four months due to the unrest in Kashmir was burnt in a mysterious fire incident on Monday evening. Officials say 18 schools have been set on fire during the current unrest.