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Video: ‘My Son was a Civilian, Not a Militant’- Father of Imran Killed in Kulgam Encounter

Video: ‘My Son was a Civilian, Not a Militant’- Father of Imran Killed in Kulgam Encounter

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Vikram Raj/ Yasir Yousuf Terrified and shocked, tears are rolling down the cheeks of all inmates in the house of Imran Ahmed Dar, who was killed in an encounter in the Munar area of Yaripora in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Scenes inside the house would tear apart any human heart, an Inconsolable mother, a father holding the portrait of Imran weeping loudly and repeating in a low voice, “Fathers should never have to bury their children.” On Sunday, the Government Forces early morning laid a cordon and search operation in the Yaripora area of Kulgam. The Jammu Kashmir Police issued a press release, that a Militant had been killed during the exchange of gunfire. The Police also said that they had made recoveries from the Militant. In a normal army nomenclature in Kashmir, recovery i...
Video- Pegasus Project: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, his Driver, Geelani’s Family Among Others on the Leaked Database for Surveillance

Video- Pegasus Project: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, his Driver, Geelani’s Family Among Others on the Leaked Database for Surveillance

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The latest report by The Wire under the Pegasus Project claims that atleast 4 members from the Senior Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani's family were selected as potential targets for surveillance. They were targets of an India-based client of the Israeli NSO company who created the Pegasus Spyware. A French media organization, Forbidden Stories collaborated with Amnesty International on finding a leaked database of 50,000 telephone numbers to have been potential targets of surveillance by the governments of various countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpnQ5vz5SE They further collaborated with seventeen media organizations from around the world in this venture of investigative journalism. The Wire revealed that around 300 Indian telephone numbers present in the leaked ...