Mehbooba Mufti On Shopian Deaths

A late night shootout at Shopian in south Kashmir resulted in the killing of two local terrorists and four civilians travelling in two vehicles. The Army says it retaliated after its check post was fired at from a car, in which the terrorists and their associates were killed.

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Army sources today said that its soldiers, charged with murder over the death of two civilians in firing on protesters at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, "opened fire in a desperate situation". A crowd of protesters injured a soldier with stones and "threatened to burn" him, the Army sources said amid a massive political row between the s...

Mobile internet services have been suspended in parts of Kashmir Valley amid a shutdown call by separatists today over the death of two civilians in Army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday evening. The Army says the firing was in "self-defence" when its convoy came under "unprovoked and intense stone pelting" by a mob. The p...

A late night shootout at Shopian in south Kashmir resulted in the killing of two local terrorists and four civilians travelling in two vehicles. The Army says it retaliated after its check post was fired at from a car, in which the terrorists and their associates were killed.

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Army sources today said that its soldiers, charged with murder over the death of two civilians in firing on protesters at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, "opened fire in a desperate situation". A crowd of protesters injured a soldier with stones and "threatened to burn" him, the Army sources said amid a massive political row between the s...

Mobile internet services have been suspended in parts of Kashmir Valley amid a shutdown call by separatists today over the death of two civilians in Army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday evening. The Army says the firing was in "self-defence" when its convoy came under "unprovoked and intense stone pelting" by a mob. The p...