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Shams Irfan

Shams Irfan
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A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.

Grave issue invokes sharp reactions

The SHRC report confirming the presence of unmarked graves in north Kashmir has evoked sharp reactions across the political spectrum in the valley with...

A buried claim

The calls for forensic tests by impartial International rights bodies to determine the fate of the missing may have brought hopes to many families...

PULWAMA

A 1.29 minutes video posted on YouTube shows soldiers instead of pulling a person out of the rubble shooting him to death at point...

CIC G R Sofi

Gradually, the right to information act is becoming relevant to the society that, for centuries, has remained ignorant of what is happening around them....

Newsmakers

The day I see Allah in (Narender) Modi’s eyes and Modi sees Bhagwan in my eyes, India will grow.Dr Farooq Abdullah in a speech...

The Roughs In LASHKAR

Till date, people knew that Moulana Showkat Ahmad, the peacenik leader of the Jamiat-e-Ahlihadis was the victim of the crisis the puritanical party faced...

Anna Can Wait

Anna Hazare has not resonated in Kashmir. Alienation in the region is so deep that Kashmir has virtually rejected the entire system and Anna’s...

SEE Is Through

Within three months of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approving the Rs 235 crores Skill, Empowerment and Employment (SEE) scheme – now...

Theater of the Wronged

Kashmiri theatre is beginning to find its feet again with artists evolving original plays. Arshad Mushtaq’s Watterpaed will have a series of shows in...

Silenced Yet Still Resonating

Ali Mohammad Shahbaaz, a revolutionary poet, a satirist, a philanthropist and an educationist was a strong poetic voice that was silenced 15 years ago....

Dead Ain’t Silent

Last week, the state police in Vaijaypur solved a mystery. A widow had made an application to police that her nine-year-old son had gone...

I Remember

Sameer YasirPingali Venkayya would have hanged his head in shame if he were to see the Indian tricolor painted on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road these...

Blood the colour of thought

Arshid MalikI was always an ardent lover of books. What kind, you may ask and I would say all kinds. By all kinds I...

SHRC On Unmarked Graves: The Investigation Report

Office of the Sr. Superintendent of Police, J&K SHRC Srinagar. Published: 8/24/2011 1:00:00 PM Updated: 8/24/2011 11:20:20 AM By: Filed Under: India NO: SHRCPIW/2011/1000             Dated: 02.7.2011 Subject: Enquiry Report...

MUMBAI

Shammi Kapoor’s death was felt in Kashmir as well. Not because he was supposed to be in the valley next month in the same...