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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.
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 ...
A series of massacres of Hindus in May–August 2001 by Islamic militants took place in the erstwhile Doda district (present-day Kishtwar district) of Jammu and Kashmir, India, wherein 43 Hindus were killed. [1] [2] [3] The massacres took place at villages and temporary summer camps called dhoks in remote meadows used by local shepherds. [4]
The Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police said that "Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba" is responsible for the attack. Subsequently, police arrested Mohammad Abdullah (alias Abu Talah) of Lashkar-e-Taiba in connection with this massacre. [ 1 ]
The massacre was a turning point in the Kashmir issue, where Sikhs had usually been spared from militant violence. [15] Shortly after the massacre, hundreds of Kashmiri Sikhs gathered in Jammu, shouting anti Pakistan and anti Muslim slogans, criticising the Indian government for failing to protect the villagers, and demanding retaliation. [16] [17]
Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq. 1 May Assassination of Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son. Anti-Pandit Militants 2 21 May Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah. Hizbul Mujahideen: 1 1990–1991 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus: Anti-Hindu and Anti India Millitants 217-228 [7] [8] Dissolved (Jagmohan Malhotra)
The Muslim troops within the Jammu and Kashmir sector defected from the state forces, where they had been serving as guides. One Muslim soldier reached Istak by floating on a swollen cow's skin and informed Major Ehsan that the Muslims on the right bank were secure, while state forces were massacring those on the left bank. [ 19 ]
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and ...