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Five killed in attack on Kashmir camp

A rebel attack on an army camp in Indian Kashmir killed three soldiers and two police on Friday, an official said, as the tense Muslim-majority state votes in local elections. Two of the assailants also died in what the official described as a suicide attack on the army camp in[…]

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Thousands line up to vote in Kashmir

Indian-administered Kashmir headed to the polls under tight security with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party eyeing power for the first time in the disputed Muslim-majority region. More than one million residents are eligible to vote on Monday in the first stage of staggered elections in the Himalayan region,[…]

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Fresh border clashes erupt in Kashmir

An elderly Pakistani man was killed by Indian troops as fresh cross-border firing rocked the disputed Kashmir region, officials said Wednesday. The 75-year-old was herding goats outside his home in the Chari Kot border village of Pakistani administered Kashmir on Tuesday when he was killed by “unprovoked” firing by Indian[…]

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More deaths in India and Pakistan clashes

India’s defence minister has asked Pakistan to stop its shelling in the disputed Kashmir region and warned it would make such attacks “unaffordable,” as the death toll in cross-border firing climbed to at least 17 after five additional fatalities were reported overnight. “If Pakistan persists with this adventurism, our forces[…]

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12 dead from cross-border shelling in Kashmir

Three women were killed as Indian and Pakistani forces kept up heavy cross-border firing in the disputed Kashmir region, officials said Wednesday, taking the civilian toll to 12, with dozens more injured. The latest casualties came overnight after nine people died Monday in what was the troubled region’s highest civilian[…]

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Kashmir region reels from flooding

The main city in Indian-administered Kashmir has “drowned completely” under floodwaters, according to a senior official, with the deadly inundation now affecting about two million people in neighbouring Pakistan and threatening its all-important cotton industry. The floods began in Kashmir after heavy monsoon rains and are now progressing downstream through[…]

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Al Imdaad sends aid to Kashmir

As the mass evacuation of flood victims begins in Kashmir, local humanitarian NGO Al Imdaad Foundation (AIF) is getting its emergency operation into gear. The foundation’s Qari Ziyaad Patel said its operation in the Kashmir region has been active long before the recent five day heavy rains which has already[…]

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Thousands still stranded in flood-hit Kashmir

Floodwaters have started receding in India-administered Kashmir, giving rescue teams a chance to reach more than 600,000 people stranded by the heaviest flooding in half a century. Torrential rains and landslides caused by days of rain have killed at least 450 people in Kashmir – a Himalayan region divided between[…]

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