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19.07.2026

ABDUL Rashid Wani was stopped by Indian soldiers near his home in Srinagar in July 1997. He never returned. Nearly three decades later, a court has confirmed that he was murdered in military custody and that his body was disposed of. For Wani’s family, the ruling ends years of official denial but not the pain of never recovering his remains. For countless other families across India-held Kashmir, even this measure of acknowledgement has yet to arrive. Human rights groups estimate that around 8,000........

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