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The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, [13] [30] a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
The 2024 Reasi attack was a militant attack that occurred on 9 June 2024 in the Reasi district of the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.Several unidentified militants opened fire on a passenger bus transporting Hindu pilgrims from the Shiv Khori cave to Katra, causing it to lose control and plummet into a deep gorge, [2] followed by further firing at the crashed bus by the gunmen. [3]
January 1990 was a major turning point for the Kashmir insurgency as well as the Indian government's handling of it. By this time, the Kashmir insurgency was one-and-a-half year old, having been launched by the Pakistan-based Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in July 1988 under Pakistani sponsorship, [3] a year after the rigging of 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election by ...
On 24 June 2023, Indian soldiers fired across the line of control (LoC) in the Sattwal sector of Azad Kashmir at a group of Pakistani Kashmiri shepherds from Tatrinote. Two Pakistani Kashmiris were killed and one critically injured as a result of this incident. [1] [2] [3] It was the first instance of the February 2021 LoC truce being violated ...
According to Indian military sources, the Pakistani army planned an operation called "Operation Gulmarg" as an armed intervention in Kashmir without the consent of the government. As per this Operation, 20 tribal units called lashkars would invade Kashmir in numerous areas. Each lashkar would be composed of 1,000 tribal irregulars trained by ...
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Basit Ahmed Dar (also known as Basit Dar or Abu Kamran Ali ; 12 April 2002 – 7 May 2024) was a Kashmiri separatist militant commander. He was the Chief Operational Commander of The Resistance Front (TRF) following the assassination of TRF Commander Muhammad Abbas Sheikh [ 1 ] in August 2021. [ 2 ]
[242] [243] Scholar Sumantra Bose, on the other hand. opines that the MUF would have won most of the constituencies in the Kashmir Valley. [244] BBC News reported that Khem Lata Wukhloo, who was a leader of the Congress party at the time, admitted the widespread rigging in Kashmir. He stated: I remember that there was a massive rigging in 1987 ...
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference was founded on 31 July 1993. [15] On 27 December 1992, the 19-year-old Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who had taken over as chairman of J&K Awami Action Committee (J&KAAC) and become the head priest of Kashmir after the assassination of his father Mirwaiz Farooq, called a meeting of religious, social and political organisations at Mirwaiz Manzil leading to the ...