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{{Short description|Indian newspaper}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Kashmir Observer
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| editor = [[Sajjad Haider]]
| founded = 1996
| language = English
| headquarters = [[Srinagar]]
| website = {{URL|kashmirobserver.net}}
}}
'''''Kashmir Observer''''' is a daily English language newspaper published from [[Srinagar]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]] since 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Anurag |date=2016-10-03 |title=J&K Govt Shuts Down Newspaper For Inciting Violence |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2016/10/03/jk-govt-shuts-down-newspaper-for-inciting-violence |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Newslaundry}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Besieged by threats and arrests, Kashmir's newspapers try to survive under Delhi's rule |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/besieged-threats-and-arrests-kashmirs-newspapers-try-survive-under-delhis-rule |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |language=en}}</ref> [[Sajjad Haider]], a past president of Kashmir Editors Guild, is its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-10-16 |title=Viewpoint: 'Killing the truth' in Kashmir |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11553695 |access-date=2023-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lepeska |first=David |date=2023-05-31 |title='No thought, no progress'— when libraries began dying in Kashmir, educated started reading less |url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/no-thought-no-progress-when-libraries-began-dying-in-kashmir-educated-started-reading-less/1603847/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref> Besides the print and online formats, its stories are republished by other media outlets.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rashid |first1=Abdul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYRIEAAAQBAJ |title=Know Your State Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh |last2=Sultan |first2=Farah |date=2021-07-28 |publisher=Arihant Publications India limited |isbn=978-93-257-9092-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-21 |title=Kashmir Observer |url=https://scroll.in/author/12581 |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Kashmir Observer |language=en}}</ref>

==Controversies==

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hameed |first=Mustafa |date=2016-07-18 |title=Indian authorities shut down media outlets in Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://cpj.org/2016/07/indian-authorities-shut-down-media-outlets-in-jamm/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Scroll Staff |date=2016-07-16 |title=Major crackdown on media in Kashmir: Police raid newspaper offices, block cable TV |url=https://scroll.in/latest/811881/kashmir-unrest-toll-rises-to-39-as-tension-continues-in-the-valley-for-the-eighth-day |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref>

Auqib Javed, a reporter with ''Kashmir Observer'', was questioned by the [[National Investigation Agency]] (NIA) in 2018 in the [[Asiya Andrabi]] case.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Joy |first=Shemin |title=Kashmiri journalist questioned in Asiya Andrabi case |language=en |work=Deccan Herald |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/kashmiri-journalist-questioned-681982.html |access-date=2023-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-15 |title=NIA questions Auqib for 3 hours, summoned again today |url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/kashmir/nia-questions-auqib-for-3-hours-summoned-again-today/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Greater Kashmir |language=en-US}}</ref>

Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai, a reporter for ''Kashmir Observer'', was thrashed and arrested by the police when he was out for work during [[COVID-19|COVID]] lockdown in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Raza |first=Danish |date=2020-07-31 |title=India arrests dozens of journalists in clampdown on critics of Covid-19 response |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/31/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response |access-date=2023-12-04 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-13 |title=One more blow to press freedom in India |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/pegasus-spyware-scandal-one-more-blow-to-press-freedom-in-india/article35790735.ece |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Frontline |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

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[[Category:1996 establishments]]
[[Category:Daily newspapers published in India]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1996]]

Kashmir Observer - Revision history

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