Pellet Guns

'Right to healthcare, life compromised': Doctors voice concern for J&K patients in open letter to Union govt

The medical professionals have expressed concerns about the absence of functional ambulance systems, mental health challenges and pellet gun injuries in Kashmir.

Kashmir after Article 370: Death of a civilian, detention of youths fuel fear and loathing in Valley

The Valley has remained under lockdown with both cellphones and landlines blocked and internet access suspended.

Centre dismisses Kashmir protests after Article 370 as 'stray incidents' but rising number of pellet injuries tells a different tale

Twenty year old, Suhail Basheer Mir, has been left with a blurred vision after he was hit by a volley of pellets fired by the government forces in Rainwari area of Srinagar last Friday during a demonstration against the revocation of Article 370

Pellet guns in Kashmir: Cases of injuries to youths continue to be reported, but authorities say use of weapon on the decline

Top police officials have said that the use of pellet guns has decreased as the intensity of protests has also declined in southern Kashmir.

CRPF DG Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar says 360 terrorists killed in Kashmir in two years, security forces operating in 'good synergy'

Back-to-back operations by security forces in the Kashmir valley have reduced the "shelf life" of terrorists, CRPF chief Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar said.

Victims of pellet guns, Kashmir's women battle depression, anxiety with little help from government

Pellet guns have brought much more grief to the people of Jammu and Kashmir than the immediate searing pain in the lives of many. The state government has been of barely any help, and its rehab scheme is a sham.

Government forces flouting SOPs to control mobs in Kashmir, allege activists; security forces reject charges

Human rights activists have alleged that government forces are defying standard operating procedures (SOPs) to control protesting mobs in Kashmir.

Under PDP-BJP rule, Kashmir saw 74 percent more people certified 'disabled'; pellet guns behind rise in numbers

In three years to 2017, under PDP-BJP coalition rule, 31,085 people were certified disabled in Kashmir, up 74 percent from the three preceding years.

Jammu and Kashmir pellet-injury victim clears boards, gets gas agency from state for livelihood

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday decided to provide a gas agency to a 16-year-old pellet gun victim to ensure her a livelihood, a day after she cleared the 10th standard board examination.

Blinded by pellets in 2016, Jammu and Kashmir teen Insha Mushtaq clears Class 10 Board exams

Insha Mushtaq, 16, who was among the youngest victims of the pellets fired by security forces in Kashmir, qualified her Class 10 examinations on Tuesday.