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Indian prime minister calls for end to Kashmir violence (10.08.2010)
(Quelle: BBC)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for "the cycle of violence" to end in Indian-administered Kashmir.
India Kashmir seeks urgent reinforcements to stop violence (02.08.2010)
(Quelle: Reliefweb)
The chief minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir flew to the capital on Monday calling for urgent reinforcements to end to the worst anti-government violence in two years in which more than 30 people have died. .. The violence could hurt a tentative peace process launched since the 2008 attacks on India's financial capital Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants.
India, Pakistan envoys begin talks (25.02.2010)
(Quelle: RFE/RL)
Officials from India and Pakistan are holding their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Today's meeting between the two states' foreign ministers is likely to cover efforts against terrorism. Officials are also expected to talk about the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, which has been the cause of two of their three wars.
India says troops have been withdrawn from Kashmir (18.12.2009)
(Quelle: BBC)
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony has said that about 30,00 troops have been withdrawn from Indian-administered Kashmir as rebel attacks decrease.
India ready to withdraw some troops from Kashmir (03.12.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb)
India's home minister said Wednesday the government was prepared to withdraw a "significant" number of troops from the restive Muslim-majority Kashmir region.
Kashmir separatists hold talks with India - report (17.11.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb)
Indian Kashmir's separatist alliance leaders held secret talks with the country's home (Interior) minister in a sign of efforts to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency, a report said on Tuesday.
India Prime Minister offers fresh talks to Kashmir separatists (28.10.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached out to Kashmiri separatists on Wednesday, offering to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency in the Himalayan region.
Kashmir talks 'to be reconvened' (06.10.2009)
(Quelle: BBC / UK)
Talks between separatist leaders in Indian-administered Kashmir and the Indian government are to be resumed after four years, officials say.
India and Pakistan fail to restart negotiations (28.09.2009)
(Quelle: New York Times / USA)
An attempt by India and Pakistan to agree on resuming either open or back-channel negotiations over the full range of their differences stalled on Sunday, stuck once more by the fallout from the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai by Pakistani militants.
Kashmir separatists seek revived India talks (20.09.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
Kashmir's main separatist alliance wants to revive peace talks with India to find a solution to the decades-old problem plaguing the disputed Himalayan region, a leading separatist leader said on Sunday. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Chairman of the separatist alliance All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference, said he also hoped to initiate a dialogue simultaneously with Pakistan to push the peace process forward.
Kashmir violence at lowest levels: Manmohan Singh (16.09.2009)
(Quelle: Daily Times / Pakistan)
Violence in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) has come down to lowest levels yet, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday. Addressing state police chiefs and intelligence officials on the concluding day of a two-day conference organised by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Singh, however, described attempts by secessionist and militant groups in IHK to create an impression of turmoil as “worrisome”.
South Asian leaders set to meet (15.07.2009)
(Quelle: BBC / UK)
The prime ministers of India and Pakistan are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement's summit in Egypt. The discussions between Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani are to focus on a possible resumption of peace talks.
India planning to pull out 10,000 IHK troops (11.07.2009)
(Quelle: Daily Times / Pakistan)
India is considering possibilities to reduce paramilitary forces in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) by 10,000 once the ongoing Hindu Amarnath pilgrimage is completed in early August. Home Ministry sources said they were not against removing paramilitary forces from the IHK and relinquishing control to local police, but claimed the process would take at least two years. They said the proposal was dependent on an intelligence assessment of the situation.
20 hurt in fresh violence in India-controlled Kashmir (04.07.2009)
(Quelle: China View / China)
At least20 people were hurt after police used batons and teargas shells to quell the fresh anti-India demonstrations in Srinagar on Friday, eyewitnesses and hospital authorities said. The protests broke out after Friday afternoon prayers, when people in procession tried to stage demonstration against the killing of four people in Baramulla, 52 kilometers northwest of Srinagar.
Thousands attend Kashmir protest (01.07.2009)
(Quelle: BBC / UK)
Thousands of people have taken part in anti-Indian demonstrations in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir despite a government-imposed curfew. The protests in the town of Baramullah were sparked by the death of a man when police used live rounds to disperse a rally in Tuesday.
45 injured in fresh clashes across India-controlled Kashmir (19.06.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
At least 45 people were injured in the fresh clashes that erupted in some towns of India-controlled Kashmir on Friday, eyewitness and officials said. The clashes broke out after people tried to defy the restrictions imposed by authorities in wake of the separatist march to Baramulla town, 52 km northwest of Srinagar, the region' s summer capital.
India to replace paramilitary troopers in India-controlled Kashmir (12.06.2009)
(Quelle: People’s Daily / China)
Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday signaled that paramilitary troopers would be substituted by Indian police in India-controlled Kashmir in a phased manner, officials said. … The move has been taken to cool down the tempers in the region over the alleged rape and murder of two women on May 30, that triggered massive protests over the past 11 days.
Police fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir (08.06.2009)
(Quelle: New York Times / USA)
Security forces opened fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least seven people, including two critically, in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week over the deaths of two young women. Locals claim the women were raped and killed by Indian soldiers and have staged angry demonstrations that have spread across the Kashmir valley.
More than 100 wounded amid protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir (01.06.2009)
(Quelle: Asia-Pacific Daily Report / USA)
More than 100 people have been wounded as police in several Indian-controlled Kashmir (IcK) cities try to control massive protests over the controversial deaths of two women who local residents say were raped and murdered by security personnel, according to the Associated Press (AP) and the BBC.
37 killed during Indian general elections in India-controlled Kashmir (22.05.2009)
(Quelle: People’s Daily Online / People’s Republic of China)
Thirty-seven people were killed during the staggered five-phased Indian general elections in India-controlled Kashmir that concluded on May 13, said a newspaper Tuesday. A survey carried out by the local newspaper Rising Kashmir said the dead included 20 militants, 11 civilians, one political worker and five troopers of the Indian army.
India Kashmir shuts in poll protest, troops patrol (29.04.2009)
(Quelle: AlertNet / International)
Government forces locked down Kashmir's main city on Wednesday to thwart planned protests against India's general election, renewing tensions in the disputed region after a short period of relative calm.
Security put on high alert in India-controlled Kashmir (27.03.2009)
(Quelle: People´s Daily Online / China)
The security agencies have sounded a high alert in India-controlled Kashmir and asked their men to remain extra vigilant in wake of Lashkar-e-Toiba's threat of carrying out deadly attacks in the region, reported a local daily Rising Kashmir Friday. The security apparatus across India-controlled Kashmir has been beefed up following the five-day long encounters in Shamasbari forest range of Kupwara, close to line-of control, said the newspaper.
Kashmir fight kills 25, Lashkar vows more attacks (25.03.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
The Pakistan-based militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks threatened on Wednesday more violence in disputed Indian Kashmir after a five-day gunbattle with troops that killed 25 people. "The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) will continue to render sacrifices for the freedom of Kashmir and coming days would prove costly for Indian forces," Abdullah Gaznavi, the spokesman for the group, told Reuters by telephone.
One killed, 40 hurt in Indian Kashmir clash (06.03.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
One person was killed and at least 40 wounded on Friday in Indian Kashmir when police fired bullets and teargas to quell protesters demanding the release of a senior separatist leader, police said. Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators marched in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar after Friday's weekly prayers, shouting "Indian forces go back, we want freedom."
India announces election dates (02.03.2009)
(Quelle: Al Jazeera / Qatar)
India's election commission has announced that the world's most populous democracy will hold general elections from April 16. About 714 million people are eligible to take part in the election, which will be held in five stages with the final day of voting on May 13.
Kashmir strike to protest killing (25.02.2009)
(Quelle: BBC / UK)
A total shutdown is being observed in Indian-administered Kashmir to protest against the weekend killings of two Muslim men allegedly by Indian troops. Shops and banks in all parts of Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley are closed and traffic has been suspended. The shutdown has been called by hardline separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. It is being supported by the Kashmir High Court Bar Association.
India, Pakistan held secret talks on Kashmir: report (22.02.2009)
(Quelle: The Times of India / India)
India and Pakistan engaged in nearly three years of secret high-level talks that narrowly missed achieving a historic breakthrough over Kashmir, according to a media report.
Twenty-six wounded as police crack down on Indian-controlled Kashmir protests (20.02.2009)
(Quelle: Asia-Pacific Daily Report / USA)
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir (IcK) said at least 26 people were wounded in the summer capital, Srinagar, on Friday (February 20) as police cracked down on protests for the release of a top separatist leader.
UN chief calls on India, Pakistan to solve disputes through dialogue (07.02.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on India and Pakistan to solve all disputes through dialogue despite the recent tension between the two countries over the Mumbai terrorist attack.
Violence in Kashmir drops to all time low in 2008 (28.01.2009)
(Quelle: Reliefweb / International)
Last year was the most peaceful in Jammu and Kashmir in the past two decades with 147 civilian deaths. According to figures released by state authorities 43,000 people have died in the state since 1989 in militancy-related violence, a figure that is contested by human rights activists.