Kashmir Observer

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Kashmir Observer
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
EditorSajjad Haider
Founded1996
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersSrinagar
Websitekashmirobserver.net

Kashmir Observer is a daily English language newspaper published from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir since 1996.[1][2] Sajjad Haider, a past president of Kashmir Editors Guild, is its editor-in-chief.[3][4] Besides the print and online formats, its stories are republished by other media outlets.[5][6]

Controversies

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Police raided offices of several newspapers in Srinagar including Kashmir Observer in 2016, and halted printing presses, confiscated printed papers due for delivery, and briefly detained printing and delivery staff.[7][8]

Auqib Javed, a reporter with Kashmir Observer, was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2018 in the Asiya Andrabi case.[9][10]

Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai, a reporter for Kashmir Observer, was thrashed and arrested by the police when he was out for work during COVID lockdown in 2020.[11][12]

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