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Nagaland firing incident proves high time AFSPA is repealed from NE: Irom Sharmila

December 13, 2021 4:26 pm

The AFSPA empowers security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone without a prior warrant. In the northeast, it is in force in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and some districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

Explained: What is AFSPA, and why are states in Northeast against it?

December 11, 2021 3:20 pm

The Nagaland govt has called for repeal of AFSPA in the wake of public outrage against the killings in Mon. What impunity does the Act give the armed forces, and how have earlier attempts at repeal played out?

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Across The Aisle: Even to the causing of death

May 03, 2015 12:11 am

Repealing AFSPA is not a demand of separatists in J&K alone.

J&K govt formation: BJP leaders meet to discuss alliance with PDP, Omar Abdullah fumes

January 05, 2015 3:37 pm

Omar criticized PDP for its "assertion" that a coalition with BJP is necessary for getting funds for flood-affected people.

After 14 years, new hopes for release of Irom Sharmila

December 12, 2014 11:15 am

"We are very happy to know that the government will have to release Sharmila once the law is changed," said her brother.

In revised rape law, J&K lets troops retain shield

November 24, 2014 8:16 am

The PDP’s Nayeem Akhtar, for his part, claimed his party would get AFSPA repealed, saying Omar didn’t take any concrete measures.

The longest fast

November 07, 2014 12:05 am

That Irom Sharmila’s fast has entered its 15th year reveals the implacable might of the Indian state.

Rebels with an art cause

August 27, 2014 12:00 am

Clark House Initiative has found a way to survive.

Rethinking impunity

August 26, 2014 9:38 am

Why it may be time to revoke the AFSPA in areas like Manipur.

In reports by inquiry panels, tales of AFSPA abuse in Manipur

August 22, 2014 1:37 am

The Manipur government had been directed to adduce the reports of inquiry commissions.

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PDP has not set new AFSPA conditions: Ram Madhav

February 18, 2016 3:55 pm

New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Madhav on Thursday rubbished reports that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir had sought the introduction of new conditions for the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in exchange for forming the next government in the state. Madhav said the BJP-PDP alliance would continue on the basis of the same agenda that had been agreed upon during the lifetime of former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. He also said that no time frame has been set by both parties for government formation.

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‘4–5 Pakistani fighter jets, most likely F-16s, destroyed in Op Sindoor,’ says IAF Chief

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For the first time since Operation Sindoor in May, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh on Thursday gave a detailed account of the Pakistani aircrafts destroyed, saying the Indian Air Force (IAF) took out “four to five fighter aircrafts, most likely F-16s” that were on the ground at the time of the strikes.

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