All posts tagged "AFSPA"
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1.1KHuman RightsOut of 613 booked under PSA in Aug 2019, 183 still under detention in JK: MHA
‘Says no one is under house arrest’ Srinagar: A total of 183 persons are still detained under Public Safety Act while no...
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2.3KFeature
Chilling charge-sheet bares staged summer killings in Kashmir
Months after three civilians were branded as ‘hardcore terrorists’ and killed in a fake military operation in Shopian, J&K police’s fact-finding has...
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Time has come to review AFSPA, need to address concerns of rights’ activists as well as soldiers: General Hooda
Lt General (Retd) DS Hooda has said that time has come to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Hooda said...
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1.5KPolitics
Art 370, 35-A a hindrance to development in JK, repealing AFSPA akin to sending ‘our soldiers to gallows’: Modi
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has said that Article 370 and Article 35-A are a hindrance to the development of Jammu...
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2.1KPolitics
Much ado about Manifesto: ‘Best ever’ or the same old rephrased notes?
Political row over Congress’ 2019 Lok Sabha election manifesto is building up, with Indian premier calling it a ‘dhakosla-patra’ (hypocritical document) rather...
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1.4KPolitics
During my tenure as CM, some ‘Congress friends’ conspired against removal of AFSPA: Omar
After Congress in their manifesto said that they will repeal the Armed Forces Special Power Act, Omar Abdullah has said that during...
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3.3KHuman Rights
Sopore Massacre: 19 BSF men were tried in military court, can’t be tried again, CBI tells SHRC
More than 50 civilians were killed in 1993 Sopore massacre when BSF fired on the crowd Srinagar: The report filed by the...
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1.5KConflict
GoI declares Nagaland a ‘disturbed area’ under AFSPA for six more months
The Home Ministry of India, in a notification has declared the entire state of Nagaland a disturbed area for six more months...
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2.2KConflict
‘Can Army do the same in your Mumbai’: A non-local journalist’s Kashmir Diary
Amid shutdown and rage over the killing of seven civilians at Sirnoo Pulwama, a non-local journalist working with Free Press Kashmir went...
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Petition on AFSPA, Major Aditya in SC drafted by Colonel serving in JK: Report
Colonel Amit Kumar, currently posted as a legal officer at a corps headquarters in J&K, who had drafted a petition against AFPSA in...
