SRINAGAR, India—The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked Indian authorities to immediately release a journalist in disputed Kashmir, days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule. The media watchdog on Saturday said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest of Sajad Gul, an independent journalist and…

NEW DELHI–In a village on the India-Pakistan border where cross-border shelling is a constant source of trauma, television turned into an escape route for a child into a better world. Films played on the mind of Shoib Nikash Shah so loudly that the guns outside faded into oblivion—and hence started a quest that turned a…

SRINAGAR, India—A gun attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday killed two police and wounded a dozen others, police said, hours after government forces killed two militants in a brief shootout. Gunmen sprayed with bullets a bus carrying police on the outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city, wounding fourteen officers, the police said in a…

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan—At least 22 passengers were killed on Tuesday in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir after a bus they were on skidded off a mountain road and fell into a deep ravine, police said. The accident happened in Pulandri, a district in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, senior police official Fayyaz Abbasi said. He said…

NEW DELHI—Eleven civilians have lost their lives in a fresh wave of targeted killings in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir since Oct. 5, causing the Indian administration and military to go on high alert in a region that shares a border with Pakistan. The targeted killings of seven unsuspecting individuals from the Hindu…

SRINAGAR, India—Assailants fatally shot two non-local workers in two targeted attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday night, police said, days after five people were killed in a similar fashion in the disputed region. The killing comes hours after police said government forces killed four suspected militants in the last 24 hours and claimed three of…

News Analysis SRINAGAR—With the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, serious concerns have arisen over the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s northernmost territory. It has a Muslim majority. With a recorded history of Kashmiri insurgents getting support from across the border in many sanctuaries in Pakistan and with their reported Taliban links, there are concerns…

SRINAGAR, India—The mastermind behind a 2019 attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary troops has been killed in a shootout with security forces, Indian police in Kashmir said on Saturday. Mohammad Ismail Alvi, the commander of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad, or the Army of Mohammed, was killed south of the regional capital Srinagar, Vijay Kumar, the police chief…

SRINAGAR, India—Government forces killed three suspected terrorists in a shootout in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said, triggering anti-India protests and clashes between troops and residents. The Indian military said terrorists opened fire at soldiers and police as counterinsurgency troops surrounded a neighborhood in the southern town of Pulwama on a tip that terrorists were hiding there….

Five suspected rebels and an army soldier were killed in a gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, officials said, as violence in the disputed region has increased in recent weeks. The gunfight erupted shortly after scores of counterinsurgency police and soldiers launched an operation based on a tip that militants were present in a village…