Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Out of sight
After dithering over the issue of getting youth back from the training camps across the LoC for many years, the government has come out...
Challenges Ahead
Javeed AhmadKashmir is a long-pending dispute - the assertion found its way into President Obama’s recent public pronouncements in New Delhi. The statement lit-up...
Stifling voices of Kashmir
The attack on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at a seminar in Chandigarh is third recent attack on a Kashmiri separatist outside Valley. Observers say the...
Sentiments & Compulsions
The families of most of the people killed during the five months of unrest have been paid cash compensation, while some refuse to accept...
Virtual Kashmir
Restricted to their homes for the most of summer, people in Kashmir have taken to the virtual world with a vengeance... Networking, gossiping, sharing...
Home sweet home
The rehabilitation policy, allowing those who had crossed the LoC and are living in PaK to return home is witnessing stiff opposition, with very...
Non-existent bonds
A US intelligence analysis group Stratfor has pooh-poohed the accusations of links between Kashmiri separatists and Maoist of central and eastern India leveled by...
Newsmakers
RETURNED: Mohammad Shaheen, a school teacher from Mansar in Samba, was detected alive shortly before he would be buried. He was injured in a...
UN chips in
The UN has recognised APDP and released a grant to it to help the families of the people subjected to enforced disappearances in Kashmir....
Reform reversal
The government made huge noises about the children losing precious academic year but many students accused of stone pelting languishing in jails and police stations have not been able to sit in the annual exams, putting their career in jeopardy. Sumayyah Qureshi reports.
Presidential scare
Nocturnal knocks in two Sikh villages in the north and south of the valley on the eve of Obama’s India visit created panic and raised apprehensions of a Chittisinghpora-like event. Ilham Hassan reports.
Is it constitutional to ban demand for plebiscite in Kashmir
Writer Arundhati Roy’s remarks on Kashmir triggered a with demands of sedition charges against her. But she is not the first one in India...
Prayers Without The Preacher
For nine weeks, Friday prayers were not offered in the Jamia Masjid of Srinagar. Initially it was the curfew era and when it started relaxing, the authorities would impose it on Friday around the mosque.
A losing proposition
With the partition of the sub-continent and the birth of Kashmir dispute there started an era of injustice, which took different shades under different...
Lest we forget!
Arshid MalikForgotten? No, we never do forget:We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,Leave them to bleach out in the open day,Or...
