Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Newsmakers
KILLED: People held massive protests in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district after troopers of 4 Para who had laid an ambush, shot dead 22-year-old Manzoor...
A drive to uncertainty
Ferrying patients to the hospitals may be a tough job in conflict ridden Kashmir some ambulance drivers are paid peanuts, putting the future of...
Divided we stand
The internal bickering in J&K Congress has divided the party into two factions with each trying to outsmart the other, causing a nuisance for...
LIFE INTERRUPTED
Conflict induced stress is not only taking a toll on mental health in Kashmir but also causing reproductive problems and disorders in young men...
In love with Kashmir
Justine Hardy is a journalist, a writer and an aid worker, working in the area of mental health in Kashmir. Aliya Bashir talks to...
Facing a washout
Washing shawls is a specialised art, and for centuries, washermen on the banks of Jhelum in Srinagar have been engaged in the profession. Many...
Dialogue pays
Rays of hope have started to emerge on the political horizons of the subcontinent after the India-Pakistan foreign secretary level talks at Thimpu culminated...
Avoid provocation
Umair HaqaniThe chief minister Omar Abdullah did an appreciable job by promptly visiting the Magray family, whose 21-year-old son Manzoor Ahmed was killed by...
Of mansions and graveyards
Arshid MalikThat Day: Saturday morning, 25th of October, 2005, a major earthquake struck the India-Pakistan border, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale and was...
Scoring a Condemnation
Unidentified gunmen abducted and later killed two sisters in north Kashmir’s Sopore town early this week. Arifa and Akhter were killed at Takia Bal...
Newsmakers
ACQUITTED: The Sessions Court Kupwara has acquitted all the four surviving accused in twin murder case of the former state home minister Mushtaq Ahmad...
Decades of indifference
More than 100 families purchased residential plots from J&K housing board in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, however, the plots were occupied by army...
A year after
It is a year since a series of teenage killings that stirred 2010 began. Ikhlaq Qadri meets a few victim families and finds them...
No child’s play
The government run child care centres in Kashmir are failing to realise their objective of combating child hunger and malnutrition, and, caring for pregnant...
Ripples in Kashmir
Egypt crisis apart from sending shock waves in the wider Muslim world is being closely followed in the Sub-continent, giving their governments a cause...
