Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
‘Freedom is more precious’
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani refuses to budge from his stand and asks the government of India to ‘accept the ground reality of Kashmir’. Khurshid Wani talks to the octogenarian leader.
THE MAN
Born in 1929, Syed Ali Geelani was a schoolteacher for ten years till he resigned in 1959 to join Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) as a fulltime worker. A fire brand orator he represented Sopore in the state legislative assembly thrice in 1972, 1977 and 1987
How I topped CET
When it came to topping medical entrance exams, boys always held an edge. Ifra Abid changed that by topping the JK CET 2010 merit list. She secured a phenomenal 210 marks out of 225. Ibrahim Wani reports.
Guwahati
Khursheed WaniThere are many similarities between Kashmir and the north-east. Both hilly and border regions have inherited problems, economic as well as political, from...
Save a generation
For months together now, we are being continuously told that Kashmir’s trouble has a territory and a peculiar commerce attached to it. A few...
Stop Joking Mr CM
Shahnawaz KhanThis is not the first time that Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has talked about democratic means of protest. In the last six weeks,...
Order and disorder
Although normal life is paralysed in Kashmir for the last six weeks, with shutdowns choking government functioning, the government looks very busy, on papers...
Siege of a prayer
The Jamia Masjid has rarely been closed for Friday prayers in the last six decades. But in the last three years, the siege of...
Caught in the showdown
A series of shutdowns and curfews has put the state in a strange logjam, with an escape nowhere in sight. Khursheed Wani reports.
In many...
We will have no pulls and pressures’
The SHRC chairman Justice Bashir-ud-Din tasked to head the Commission of Inquiry into the recent civilian killings says the commission will try to complete...
We will have no pulls and pressures’
The SHRC chairman Justice Bashir-ud-Din tasked to head the Commission of Inquiry into the recent civilian killings says the commission will try to complete...
Newsmakers
KILLED: Police and paramilitary killed three more people, and injured over 70 by firing on protest in Sopore, Pattan, and other places. Authorities swiftly...
All about RAF
Gradually Kashmir is becoming a place where all army and paramilitary wings have presence. IAF, Army, BSF, SSB, CISF, Navy and now it is...
Rage blasted
Mob fury took an ugly turn in Pampore and nearby Khrew where a police station blast claimed five lives. Khursheed Wani reports. The twin...
No rules for Kashmir
Oppression minds neither gender nor age, at least in Kashmir. Bullets fired in the name of maintaining law and order by paramilitaries and local...
