Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu: The Rajouri Police has arrested a local journalist and booked him under section 153 RPC for provoking the public. According to the sources, a person approached Shafiq Mir, reporter of Indian Express and chief editor of Kashmir Watch (Weekly) to publish some objectionable advertisement in his weekly. When Shafiq refused to publish the said advertisement the person approached another local...

Activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF-Nanaji Group) led by their convenor Javed Ahmed Mir Thursday ransacked the office of Greater Kashmir, a leading English daily in Srinagar and wounded four staffers of the newspaper. Police detaining Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF-Nanaji) leader Javed Ahmad Mir, centre, during a demonstration in Srinagar September 2004. Mir and his men...

New York, July 29, 2005–As many as eight journalists were injured today in Srinagar, the major city of Indian Kashmir, after a grenade attack triggered gunfire between militants and security forces in the area, according to international news reports and local reporters. At least one journalist, Muzzafar Ahmad Bhat, a cameraman for the Indian news channel Sahara TV, was critically injured and...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Tuesday ordered a probe into the incident of assault on photojournalists by the police while the former were covering a protest rally in Srinagar last week. Deputy Director General of Police Kuldeep Khuda has been appointed as the inquiry officer. The probe was ordered after the photojournalists held a protest march here from the Press...

The Kashmir Times Delhi Bureau Chief Iftikhar Gilani's recently released book 'My Days in Prison' (Penguin, Rs 195) reveals a shocking story of trial, temerity and triumph and exposes fancies of bureaucracy, politicians, police and intelligence agencies bent to make democracy and liberty hostage to their whims. With abundant pathos and black humour, Gilani has used his skills as a journalist to...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday's attack on photographers Rafiq Maqbool of The Associated Press, and Amin War of the national newspaper The Tribune, who were beaten by police while covering a violent demonstration in Srinagar, the summer capital of war-torn Kashmir. Maqbool and War were photographing as many as 100 activists from the militant separatist group, the Democratic...

Asiya Jeelani died en route to the hospital after the van she was traveling in, which was being used by an elections monitoring team sent by a local umbrella organization, the Coalition of Civil Society, detonated an explosive device on a rural road in northern Kashmir. Jeelani was a freelance journalist who frequently contributed to local newspapers. According to local sources, she was helping...

In a 29 April 2004 letter to Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the IFJ expressed deep concern over the death of freelance journalist Asiya Jeelani and the injuring of Khurram Parvez and Kumar Bharti. On 20 April, Asiya Jeelani, a freelance journalist, was killed in a mine explosion in India-controlled Kashmir, while working with the Coalition of Civil society to prepare a report on...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the threat issued yesterday by the militant group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen against journalists working "against the freedom struggle" in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The organization is one of more than a dozen armed groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan. The rebel group's statement was...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent attack on the offices of Doordarshan Television and Radio Kashmir in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Five people were killed. At about 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, assailants detonated a car laden with explosives near the main gate of an office complex housing the media outlets, both of which are owned by...