A Distant Casualty
As a major consumer market in northern region, Kashmir sources its requirements from across the region. With the curfew-strike combine taking over the routine...
Blinding SOP
Amid piling load of pellet-blinds in valley’s another seething summer, Kashmir threatens to become a miserable home of dark lives. As eye assault continues...
Night of Pain
A day after Burhan’s killing in nearby Bemdoora village, restive tourist hotspot Achabal reacted quite unexpectedly. Aakash Hassan reports how three deaths have left...
Smouldering Summer
Six years after 2010 summer triggered Kashmir’s new age militancy, killing of a young rebel stirred up another summer of dissenting and bloodletting. With...
Unmoved
As Kashmir is getting into the fourth week of unrest following Burhan killing in Bamdoora down-south, nothing much is visible in response from the...
Painful Pellets
After being inducted as the non-lethal crowd-controller at the peak of 2010 mayhem, pellet guns started scripting a new age misery that is now...
No Empathy For Injured
by Masood Hussain
“After I regained consciousness many hours after the operation was over, I was told that the police officer let the ambulance go...
Southern Samaritans
As bullet/pellet hit of seething south started crowding Islamabad Hospital, the rising sentiments made it tough for medicos to work before volunteers showed up...
Emergency 24X7
Every time Kashmir streets turn into battlefields, hospitals struggled to manage the outcome. Working round the clock medical staff struggled to save the lives...
Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
Love is Blind
It was the end of world for young Amir when he lost his eyesight during 2010 uprising. He resigned himself to his fate. He...
The Conflict Reporter’s Deeper Look
In Indian Kashmir, YouTube generation defines new struggle
By Izhar Wani
SRINAGAR, July 23, 2010 (AFP) - For six weeks, in scenes reminiscent of Palestinian intifadas,...
On The Job, When Journalists And Protesters Were Rarely Distinguished
Indian tactics under fire as Kashmir toll passes 100
By Izhar Wani
SRINAGAR, Sept 19, 2010 (AFP) - Indian security forces say they have exercised “maximum”...
On Conflict Within The Conflict
Last year, Imtiaz Ahmed was marching in some of the biggest pro-freedom demonstrations India has faced in revolt-hit Kashmir since the start of an insurgency two decades ago.
Lonely battle
A family that lost its only child last June is fighting to bring the killers to justice even after alleged threats and attempts to...