Kashmir Life
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
Crisis Manager!
He literally kept Jama’at-e-Islami alive after its entire leadership was jailed post-1987 state assembly results. Mohammad Raafi talks to Mohammad Ashraf Khan to know...
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
(May 27, 1945 – August 13, 1996)
A Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) worker since he was 15 years old, Mohammad Sultan Bhat had contested assembly elections...
Dateline 1987
What happened on March 23, 1987 in Kashmir is even missing from newspaper archives. Shakir Mir painstakingly swifts through whatever material is available to...
Rigging, Where?
For the last more than two decades, almost everybody is accusing National Conference of resorting to rigging to retain power. Riyaz Ul Khaliq talks...
MUF’s Mind
After conceiving and creating Muslim United Front, turbulent nineties pushed ideologue Dr Ghulam Qadir Wani to the other Kashmir. Throughout his life, this brilliant...
Mehbooba: Change or Surrender
By Tasavur Mushtaq
Mehbooba Mufti’s drive to Bijbehara today to pay homage to her father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed wasn’t a routine travel. The scenario when...
MUFfed
The rise of Muslim United Front (MUF) at the peak of a disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar led to unprecedented participation in the 1987...
Zawoora: Why Is This Small Kashmir Hamlet Restless
Saima Rashid
SRINAGAR
Back in 1950, when army’s depot supply took base in Zawoora—a small postcard hamlet in Srinagar outskirts—the villagers had to vacate thousands of...
Captive to ‘Sweet Will’
By Tasavur Mushtaq
Kashmir has a history of being subject to the ‘sweet will’ of its political leaders, its people and the ‘pleasure’ of...
Government Formation: Modi Takes Over Personally?
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally taken over the responsibility of ensuring the formation of government in J&K. He has asked his...
Cries for Justice Resound IUST—as Students Protest Classmate’s ‘Murder’
Mohammad Raafi
SRINAGAR
A massive protest demonstration was Tuesday held in Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) against the “brutal” killing of an engineering student,...
Wicked Silhouettes
By Saima Rashid
Look...
Those silhouettes
Are coming to derail
The calm of the
Hamlet!
Men, Simmering!
Women, worrying.
Youth, fuming.
Children, sobbing...
Are they on prowl
To resurrect
The dark times? -
The one
That proved
Blackhole of
Our...
Modi-Mehbooba Meeting: PDP President Expresses Satisfaction Over ‘Positive’ Meeting
Tasavur Mushtaq
SRINAGAR
In a last attempt to re-stitch the alliance with BJP, PDP’s president Mehbooba Mufti met Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday morning. Ms Mufti...
Turning the Calendar
by Shah Faesal
Counting "red-letter" days on a J&K Bank Calendar - at times by standing over a pile of cushions as the prized Calendars...
