Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Freedom and Free Trade
Arshid MalikFree Trade is the haute couture of the modern world, the catch phrase, the order of the day, but for the people of...
Executed
A 13-year-old body is allegedly pulled out of a hospital bed and shot at the gates. And the story remained largely unreported. Shahnawaz Khan...
Newsmakers
STAYED: The High Court has stayed the trial court proceedings in Machil fake encounter case in which three innocent civilians were killed and passed...
God, gods and the bug.
Zamir AhmadAbout four thousand years ago, an interesting conversation took place between Prophet Abraham and the king Nimrod. The conversation has been beautifully recorded...
Adios “babugiri”
Arshid MalikA few weeks ago, while I was running an errand for my company, I was obliged to visit a central government office for...
Determined to succeed
Abdur Rashid Khan started his career as a lab technician. Today, as Assistant Professor, he heads the central laboratory of SKIMS Bemina. Ikhlaq Qadri...
Welcome change
This week, J&K government took two baby steps in the direction of restoring a routine in Kashmir that existed prior to the agitation. One...
Clash of interest
Breaking the tradition the winter vacation of schools has been cancelled evoking criticism from various quarters – the latest from coaching centre owners who...
Inching towards growth
Omar WaniThis month’s National Geographic magazine will give you the picture of a new born baby on one of its pages with a caption:“…...
London
Amina RawatPrior to the election of the current coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, the leader of the latter...
Pakistan fires Indus Commissioner
Pakistan has removed its Indus Commissioner as right-wing Pakistani newspapers had been baying for his blood since the World Bank gave a go ahead...
Business of exams
Exams are held to asses a student’s merit and as a means of promotion to the next class but these are also a big...
Breathing poison
Lung cancer is increasing at an alarming rate in Kashmir with experts linking 90 per cent of the cases to tobacco usage. Aliya Bashir...
Back to the pulpit
Two days after IG Police S M Sahai defended the siege of Jamia Masjid saying that nobody would be allowed to preach politics at...
Newsmakers
DIED: Mohammad Hussain Khan died of brain haemorrhage two months after his two sons Altaf Hussain, 35, and Abid Ahmad, 25, were murdered in...
