Munir Ahmed, Author at Greenfield Recorder

In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 photo, Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. The lives of millions in India's only Muslim-majority region have been upended since the latest — and most serious — crackdown followed a decision by New Delhi to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and downgrade the Himalayan region from statehood to a territory. Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, and rebels have been fighting Indian rule in the portion it administers for decades. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Indian PM: Changes in Kashmir will free it from ‘terrorism’

by Ashok Sharma Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressAugust 8, 2019

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation Thursday night that he stripped Kashmir of its statehood and special constitutional status in order to free the disputed Himalayan region of “terrorism and separatism.” Modi’s Hindu-led…

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard outside a closed market during a strike in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. As tensions escalate between India and Pakistan, shops and business remained closed for the second consecutive day in Indian portion of Kashmir following a strike call by separatist leaders to protest Tuesday's raids on key separatist leaders by Indian intelligence officers. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Pakistan pledges to release captive Indian fighter pilot

by Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Kathy Gannon Associated PressFebruary 28, 2019

Members of the media make images of a posted note on the front door of Jim and Lyn Coleman's home in Stewartstown, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. The Coleman's daughter Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years held captive by a group that has ties to the Taliban and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Captive for 5 years, US-Canadian family freed in Pakistan

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 12, 2017

People gather outside the emergency ward, where authorities brought the bodies of plane crash victims, at a hospital, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. Pakistan's national carrier says one of its planes has crashed shortly after takeoff from the northern city of Chitral with 48 people aboard. A spokesman for Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday that the cause of the crash was unclear and there was believed to be little chance of finding survivors. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Pakistani plane crashes, 48 dead

by Asif Shahzad Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressDecember 7, 2016

Pakistani family members of victims mourn outside a police training center where gunmen opened fire, in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Gunmen stormed the police training center late Monday in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province and detonated explosive vests, killing dozens of police trainees and wounding many others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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Pakistani cadets ran, jumped from windows to flee militants

by Abdul Sattar Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 26, 2016

Pakistani civil society activists light candles Peshawar, Pakistan to pay tribute to the victims of a bombing in Quetta, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. The bomber killed dozens of people and wounded many others in an attack that struck a gathering of Pakistani lawyers on the grounds of a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police and doctors said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Pakistanis mourn attack on lawyers

by Abdul Sattar Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressAugust 9, 2016

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured person for medical help following a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off inside a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens of others, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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Suicide attack targets lawyers at Pakistan hospital, 70 dead

by Abdul Sattar Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressAugust 8, 2016