Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Ready to smoke peace pipe
Taliban have sent a 5-point wish-list to US forces in Afghanistan, indicating their preparedness to dump al-Qaida. Iftikhar Gilani reports from Dubai.
After stoking violence...
Picking up the threads
As the valley limps back to normalcy after five month unrest, businesses are returning to their routine and trying to compensate the losses. Aliya...
No way for roads
The number of vehicles in Srinagar has increased five times in the last twenty years while road lengths saw negligible growth. Kashmir Life takes...
‘Influential Indian’
How influential is the Hurriyat (G) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. In Kashmir, he may make it to the top in a list of...
Azadi from Kashmir
Congress leader Sham Lal Sharma, who is the State’s Health minister stirred a controversy this week by suggesting trifurcation for Jammu and Kashmir and...
Newsmakers
REVEALED: Kashmir’s major newspaper Greater Kashmir revealed a senior minister has grabbed 40.7 kanals of land in ecologically fragile Sedow village of Shopian. The...
Newsmakers
BOOKED: Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and author Arundhati Roy besides five others including Kashmir University professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain were finally booked for...
Sparring partners
NC and Congress have had a bumpy coalition, where speaking against each other is a routine affair. The frequent infighting however, is a part...
Shoot out in the city
The killing of three youngsters in a mysterious shootout at Qammerwari has raised questions including that from a parliamentarian. Meanwhile the army issued a...
Pushed by the unrest
The four month unrest, marked by incessant curfews and shutdowns, forced many students and businesses to move outside the Valley. Aliya Bashir reports.
ACQUITTED
The first victims of dreaded POTA have been acquitted, nine years after they were booked and five years after the act was repealed in...
A silent sell out
A deal giving Centaur hotel to a private company for 30 years was struck when Kashmir was under curfew as a seemingly helpless state...
Humane Laws!
Laws in any society are crucial for administration and keeping order. In earlier times autocrats and emperors would make laws that would change with...
Morning tea and power theft
Arshid MalikHa. Ha. I just couldn’t stop laughing out loud. I burst out laughing when, a few days ago, I read a news item...
Military solution won’t work
Wajahat QaziThe gory daylight murder of three young men at the peak of their lives in a busy market square happens soon after the...
