Security

When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...

As the rattling guns broke the early morning slumber inside the sprawling Sunjwan garrison in Jammu on February 10, the action and reaction lasted...

A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...

Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent days in the belt...

Occasionally, some of the young men recruited by various uniformed services in Kashmir desert and join the rebels. Though a proper investigation by their...

As mother’s emotional plea and father’s cardiac attack brought footballer turned ‘militant’ back home, all of a sudden seeking and accepting surrender became the...

Exposed directly to the extremity of conflict, Kashmir’s serious distressed border belts will take a long time to become normal. More than shells and...

It has been a decade since the ordinance depots a Khundru went up in flames sending explosive projectiles to every place, in orchards, fields,...

Six killings in three incidents in Shopian suggest a clear shift that renewed militancy is affecting on ground, reports Tasavur Mushtaq “All three militants have...

Two young men visited a border outpost to register their movement but did not come out. After massive protests, one was recovered almost half...

When the counter-insurgency grid finally confirmed that the salt-and-pepper man slain in a dusky Shopian village was Yasin Itoo, they knew it was extra-ordinary....

News of death and destruction are apparently the only two by-products of a gun battle between rebels and the army. One encounter paves way...

Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...

Separated in birth by a year and in death by 6 kms, sub inspector Feroz Dar and rebel commander Bashir Lashkari belonged to two...

The latest of the juvenile rebels killed in an encounter was only 15 years of age. He was neither the first to fall to...