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Students Protest in Baramulla Against Militant Killings in South Kashmir

REGIONAL
August 29 Scores of students from Government Degree College Baramulla on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration outside the college campus against the killing of two Militants in South Kashmir. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that a large number of students shouting pro Freedom and Pro Militancy Slogans gathered outside GDC Baramulla. The protesting also shouted slogans against the attempts to abrogate Article 35 A before they dispersed off on a peaceful note. Two militants including top Hizb commander Altaf Ahmed Dar alias Kaczroo were killed in a gunfight in Muniwar area of South Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag) District this morning.

An Encounter in Islamabad Town after 13 years

WRITE-UPS
July 26 Many of Islamabad (Anantnag) residents have perhaps pompously come to regard their little town as a peaceful, untroubled, but that facade was shattered in just a few seconds with the acrid sound of gunfire filling the air and the blood of two dead men — Bilal Ahmed and Adil Hussain, soaking into the soil. The human cost of the shootout made it a repulsive event in the eyes of the Islamabad residents because Wednesday obviously has flipped the perception of nearly 13 years. The small town was supposedly a sophisticated place, but it was marred by horrible violence in the initial years of Militancy. "It is tough for us to forget what we have lived, one of the toughest thing to forget for anyone in the town is, 27 October, 1990, when Forces burnt down an entire locality, more...