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Farooq Khan
Srinagar, India
Photojournalist Farooq Khan is based in Srinagar, located in the heart of Kashmir.
Farooq has also worked with leading Indian national dailies like Hindustan Times and Pioneer as well as Kashmir based news papers including Greater Kashmir and Rising Kashmir. His extensive portfolio of work spans over two decades and includes coverages of the Kargil War and the Kashmir conflict.
Wife of Arif Mushtaq wails near his body as relatives (unseen) prepare his body for his funeral in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 13 March 2010. Arif, a special police officer was shot by unknown gunmen outside his residency during the night on 12 March police said. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN
Indian paramilitary soldiers on duty during a curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 31 July 2010. Two Kashmiri Muslim protesters were killed while 40 people including 30 police men were injured in fresh clashes that erupted in the region on Saturday taking civilian death since 11 June to 23. Authorities had imposed curfew which hundreds people tried to violate resulting in day long clashes. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN
Kashmiri protester shout slogans holding empty bullet shells while standing beside a government vehicle which had been set afire by a mob during a demonstration in Srinagar ,the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 04 August 2010, who were protesting over the recent deaths in The Kashmir Valley. Five more demonstrators died in Indian Kashmir as new protests erupted in defiance of pleas for calm from the region's chief minister, the deaths again brought huge crowds chanting anti-India slogans on to the streets of Srinagar as the bodies of two dead men were carried on stretchers to their funerals.. The death in early June of a 17-year-old student -- killed by a police tear-gas shell set off the series of almost daily protests during which scores of people have been killed, 27 of them since July 30. At least 44 people have died in the weeks of unrest most of them killed by security forces trying to disperse angry protests against Indian rule. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN
A young woman wails over the dead body of 16-year-old Feroz Ahmad at Palhalan, Pattan, 30 kms North of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, 06 September 2010. Three persons, including a teeanager, were killed and some others injured during clashes between the police and protesters on 06 September 2010, police said. These dead take the death toll of civilians killed in alleged police and paramilitary action in Kashmir since 11 June 2010 to 69. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN
