Kashmiri Leader Yasin Malik Hospitalized and Put on IV fluids
On 26th July, four days after pro-freedom Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik went on a hunger strike in Tihar jail, the…
Press Repression in Kashmir Continues as India Bars Journalist from Traveling Abroad
On 27th July, Kashmiri journalist, Aakash Hassan was barred from traveling abroad as authorities at airport in New Delhi stamped his boarding pass with…
Educational Institutes in Kashmir Named After the Human Rights Violating Armed Personnel
On 28th July, the Jammu and Kashmir colonial administration issued a list of eighteen educational institutions which were given names after the members of…
Five Kashmiri Families Dispossessed of their Homes under the UAPA
On 29th July, Indian authorities sealed five more residential houses of Kashmiri Muslims under UAPA in Srinagar. The seizure was justified by stating that…
1846
In 1846, after the British East India Company prevailed over the Sikh Empire in the First Anglo-Sikh War, the British sold Kashmir, then ruled…
1865
Kashmiri shawl weavers rose against the backbreaking conditions and taxations Dogra subjected them to. The regime brutally crushed the uprising and in the three…
1931
On July 13, during the trial of Abdul Qadeer, who was accused of encouraging Kashmiris to rise up against the tyranny of the Dogra,…
1932
Prominent Kashmiri Muslim leaders established the All Jammu Kashmir Muslim Conference, aiming at empowerment, education, and representation of Kashmiri Muslims in the government. The…
1947
With the end of British colonial rule in South Asia in 1947, and the creation of the modern Indian state and Pakistan in its…
1948
India took the case of Kashmir to the United Nations. Kashmir was officially recognized as a disputed territory. The United Nations Security Council passed…