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Delhi directives

Situation in Kashmir forced a high level meeting in Delhi chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, which discussed a strategy to contain Kashmir unrest....

‘Saying civilians were killed is a misnomer’

Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai talks about the situation in Kashmir in an interview with Iftikhar Geelani KL: Violence is raging in Kashmir. Is...

June turmoil

For the third consecutive year, the month of June has turned out to be the most turbulent in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports It may be...

Blood For Booty

Macchil murders add one more chapter to the bloody history of fake encounters in Kashmir, where greed for medals and rewards feeds on human...

Norm of abberations

It may be a minor error of judgement for the man with his hand on trigger, but for those on the receiving end, it...

Police rule freaks family

A sudden shriek woke up Ghulam Qadir Lone from his afternoon siesta in his ground floor room at Marhama village, 12 Km from north...

Jailed and honoured

Iftikhar Geelani’s detention and release from jail is a melodrama that he narrated in a book My Days In Prison. Penguin India published the...

Home Calling!

As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...

Those who stayed back

As New Delhi woos migrant Kashmiri Pandits back to Valley with financial packages,  those who stayed back through turbulent years  were almost ignored.  MAJID...

Rape of an investigation

The only bit of evidence on Shopian "rapes and murders" has been lost as CFSL report says that the vaginal swabs of victims have...

Away from Kashmir

They grew up in the valley, they work in Delhi. They left Kashmir but Kashmir stayed with them. Majid Maqbool narrates some experiences Kashmiri...

Kashmir on the precipice

Trouble in Baramulla comes on top on an unresolved Shopian crisis. While the trigger happy policing ensures that the people as well as the...

Murder most foul

JK Government’s one-man inquiry commission to probe the alleged rape and murder of a women and a teenage girl in Shopian, has its task...

De-Stinging AFSPA

Both the government and opposition are talking loud about the need to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and expressing helplessness to revoke...

Khundroo Ammo Depot: A constant torment

Live fuses, shells and landmines scattered in villages around Khundroo Ammunition Depot are haunting a population, who are losing lives and limbs to stray...