city:srinagar

  • Le joyau du Cachemire | Tauseef Mustapha
    https://making-of.afp.com/le-joyau-du-cachemire

    « Je me rends régulièrement autour du lac Dal, c’est un endroit où je me trouve en paix, quelle que soit la saison », écrit Tauseef Mustapha, photographe à Srinagar, au sujet de ce haut lieu touristique du Cachemire, à l’extrémité de l’Himalaya. « Le lac est un joyau, le plus souvent silencieux. C’est un endroit que j’aime parce qu’il me permet aussi de faire une pause dans la couverture des affrontements entre les séparatistes cachemiris et l’armée indienne ». Source : Making-of

  • Curfew continues; normal life hit for 43rd day in Kashmir - Times of India
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-continues-normal-life-hit-for-43rd-day-in-Kashmir/articleshow/53782502.cms

    Curfew remained in force in Srinagar district and two south Kashmir towns even as normal life in the valley was paralysed for the 43rd day on Saturday due to unrest in the wake of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani on July 8.

    Curfew is in force in entire Srinagar district, Anantnag town and Pampore town as a precautionary measure,” a police official said.
    The official said restrictions on the movement of the people were in force in rest of the valley.

    The separatist camp has called for an “Azadi march” to district headquarters today as part of their protest schedule.

    Normal life remained paralysed for the 43rd consecutive day due to curfew, restrictions and separatist-sponsored strike following Wani’s killing in an encounter with security forces.

    Schools, colleges and private offices remained closed while public transport remained off roads. The attendance in government offices was thin.

    Mobile internet and telephony services also remained suspended.

    The separatist camp, headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, has extended the agitation till August 25
    As many as 64 persons including two cops have been killed in the clashes that began on July 9.

  • Here’s One of the Many Rapes We Won’t Hear about Because the Kashmiri Press is Being Crushed - The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger
    http://theladiesfinger.com/crpf_kashmir-reader

    The Kashmir Reader, an English daily published from Srinagar, had a story yesterday about a group of CRPF men attacking a family on their way to Srinagar. “The CRPF men intercepted the family of three when the son and daughter of an ailing woman were taking her to a Srinagar doctor. The CRPF men sexually abused the daughter, beat and tortured her brother and took him away to be killed. Their helpless mother pleaded for them to be spared, for which she received abuses and kicks in return. An intervention by the local police saved the young man from being killed and the young woman from being raped,” said the first para of this horrifying story.

    Since being published yesterday, the story has been going offline on and off. It is currently offline. But you can read it here and here.

    The Kashmir Reader is of course only one of the many media organisations being gagged in Kashmir right now. The New Indian Express reports, “Police on Saturday seized copies of major Urdu and English newspapers in the Kashmir Valley following midnight raids on the printing press creating an information blackout as mobile services also remained suspended. The publishers on their websites have claimed that their print copies were seized and people working for the printing press were also arrested.”

  • 4th Kashmiri Dies in Clashes With Indian Troops Amid Curfew - ABC News
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/curfew-imposed-kashmir-indian-army-fire-kills-38353707

    Indian authorities on Wednesday imposed a curfew in parts of Kashmir to stop fresh anti-India demonstrations following the killings of four people by Indian troops and a general strike called by separatists.

    The latest death occurred when a man was hit on his head by a tear gas shell fired by security forces and died in a hospital in the northern village of Drugmulla, police said.

    He was part of hundreds of rock-throwing protesters who clashed with government forces for a second straight day Wednesday as authorities enforced a curfew in Srinagar, Handwara and neighboring villages.
    […]
    The protest and clashes in the northern town of Handwara erupted Tuesday following an allegation by residents that an Indian army soldier tried to sexually assault a teenage schoolgirl.

    • ça me rappelle quand j’étais jeune et inconsciente : j’ai séjourné une dizaine de jours au Cachemire à Srinagar dans un « houseboat ». En fait la plupart sont installés perpendiculairement au fleuve, l’arrière est fixé à la rive et l’avant est dans l’eau. L’intérieur est recouvert de tapis épais. C’est très très romantique ! (et très très militarisé)