Peerzada Ashiq

5 days ago | thehindu.com | Dinakar Peri |Peerzada Ashiq |Devesh K. Pandey |Suhasini Haidar

Commencing Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7, 2025, in a swift and decisive military action against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Indian armed forces carried out 24 precision strikes on nine different targets. Describing the military operation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said India exercised its “right to respond” to an attack on its soil, referring to the Pahalgam attack.

6 days ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

Kashmir has remained a challenging beat for a reporter for over three decades now. The fact that over 20 local journalists lost their lives in the line of duty only indicates the danger of reporting from and about Kashmir. The recent Pahalgam terror attack once again posed multiple challenges to reporters on the ground, both physically and emotionally.

6 days ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

Several wooden houses have been turned into skeletons of charcoal and belongings into mounds of ashes in Salamabad area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. Residents, who migrated in the wake of Pakistan’s mortar shelling on the night of May 7-8 and live in shelters, on Thursday (May 8, 2025) expressed one wish: “The government should ensure our return to home soon”.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

The Kashmir Valley remained calm but on the edge on Wednesday (May 7, 2025) after ‘Operation Sindoor’. Several educational institutes were closed in the border districts and Srinagar airport was shut for civilian traffic “as a precautionary measure”. Hospitals in Srinagar have marked their buildings with a red cross. Follow ‘Operation Sindoor’ LIVETraffic was thin in Srinagar despite it being a weekday. Though schools and colleges in the Kashmir Valley are open most parents kept their wards at home.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

At least 12 civilians, including three women and three children, were killed, and 51 others injured as the Pakistan Army resorted to heavy mortar shelling and firing on villages, hitting scores of houses and vehicles in four districts close to the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K on Wednesday. Follow ‘Operation Sindoor’ LIVEOne Indian soldier was killed in “unprovoked shelling by Pakistani forces” close to the LoC in the Poonch sector, officials said.