India Administered Kashmir

Perpetual lockdown has led to a mental health epidemic in Kashmir

Kashmiris were already under lockdown for over six months before the pandemic started, and it is now triggering a mental health crisis.

Bodies of Kashmir men killed by Indian army exhumed

Indian police exhume bodies of three young men in India-administered Kashmir, killed by the Indian army in what relatives and activists say was a "fake" gun battle.

Indian army admits wrongdoing in killing three Kashmiris

In a rare admission, Indian military says its soldiers in disputed Kashmir abused their powers in the killings of three labourers it had passed off as "Pakistani terrorists."

India asks China to withdraw soldiers from disputed border region

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accuses China of trying to alter status quo along a disputed frontier in Ladakh region, a charge Bejing denies and instead puts onus on New Delhi to curb tensions there.

Kashmir under curfew ahead of Indian clampdown anniversary

Indian authorities impose a curfew in the India-administered Kashmir, citing intelligence reports of looming protests on the first anniversary of the clampdown.

Kashmiris observe Martyrs Day as India detains another resistance leader

Tehreek-Hurriyat chair and a possible replacement of veteran resistance leader Syed Geelani, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was detained under the controversial Public Safety Act, which allows for detention for up to two years without trial.

In pictures: From Kashmir's military lockdown to Turkey's Covid-19 one

An intimate photo series showing elderly Kashmiri parents navigating the coronavirus lockdown in Turkey after experiencing several military lockdowns in disputed Kashmir.

India arrests top Kashmiri leaders under controversial law

Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah were detained again after their six-month-long imprisonment ended on Thursday. New Delhi rescinded the disputed region's partial autonomy and imposed a vice-like security and communications lockdown in August.

Harsh weather kills 70 more people in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Avalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather has killed nearly 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan since Sunday.

'Let it rot on the trees': Apple farmers protest India's actions in Kashmir

Either in anger or at the urging of local rebels, farmers have joined in the rebuke of India's actions in the disputed region by deliberately sabotaging a crop known as "spine of Kashmir's economy."

Death toll from quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir rises to 37

The 5.8 magnitude quake struck the region's Mirpur area, causing property and infrastructure damage and also injuring more than 500 people, officials say.

Kashmir shuts in civil disobedience despite India easing some curbs

An informal but widespread boycott by students, shopkeepers, and public and private sector workers is in effect to protest India's lockdown after it scrapped the disputed region's limited autonomy angering locals and neighbouring Pakistan.