Kashmir

Kashmir has been burning once again since July. Since the murder of 22-year-old Burhan Wani by Indian security forces on July 8, the soul of Kashmir has been up in flames. 

Indian police say security forces are battling a group of gunmen inside a government compound in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
Police told the Associated Press news agency on Monday that army and paramilitary soldiers cordoned off the compound after gunshots were heard near Pampore town, about 10km outside of Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir.

BELGRADE - India says militants have attacked one of its army camps in Kashmir with gunfire and grenades, killing one border guard and wounding another.

Police said the gunbattle between the attackers and Indian troops from the camp in the garrison town of Baramulla ended early on October 3, RFE/RL reports.

Despite knowing the fact that Pakistan will never take action against its home-grown terrorists, India handed over the content of GPS recovered from the bodies of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants to Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit as an evidence of involvement of the Pakistan-based outfit in the recent terror attack on an Indian Army base in Kashmir's Uri District.

BELGRADE - Islamabad rejects New Delhi's accusations of supporting terrorism groups in India-controlled disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir made after a deadly attack took place there, Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister on foreign affairs, said.

Anti-India protesters attacked government forces with rocks and burned an armored vehicle on April 7 as they participated in the funerals of two insurgents killed in a gun battle in the disputed Kashmir region, an Indian official said.

The European Commission will give Serbia and Macedonia EUR 17 million as part of a money package of assistance to the countries affected by the refugee crisis.

As part of this package, the EU will allocate a billion euros to Turkey.

India and Pakistan blamed each other for the cancellation of talks between their national security advisers that were scheduled for this week, with the rivals squabbling over the agenda.
     

Indian and Pakistani troops intensified firing along their disputed frontier in Kashmir, killing at least eight people and wounding 14, officials said on Aug. 16.

Pakistan has accused India of another breach of their ceasefire in the disputed Kashmir region, after reporting the death of four civilians in earlier cross-border shelling.