Umar Mukhtar
Umar Mukhtar is a Srinagar based journalist. He is covering human rights and the changing political landscape of the valley.
Masood Azhar
On May 1, 2019, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) put Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar to its list of ‘global terrorists’...
Literal Techie
A young man who studied literature for his parents and computer to satisfy his technology drive is happy that he could set up a...
Guided By Flashlight
It was the camera flashlight that gave him a vision of his career. Umar Mukhtar met a young man, passionate about camera and photography,...
A Lawyer’s Dairy
A young lawyer decided to rear cows by starting a dairy farm. For almost a year, she is in the business and it is...
Deadly Detention
Days after a private school teacher died in custody, Umar Mukhtar met the family at Awantipora to understand the sequence of events that led...
Pushed to Cliff
Gunfights claiming lives in Kashmir is a daily occurrence, however, using civilians as human shield depicts the darker side of the counter-insurgency. Umar Mukhtar...
Highway Halt
At any point of time during winters, Kashmiris form a major travelling population in this part of the world; some for tourism, some for...
An ITI Fall
The revolution in the Information Technology was key to the fall of two major central government PSUs, the HMT and the ITI in Srinagar....
Another Majnoon
In the just-released Bollywood flick, Laila Majnu, the cast includes a young Kashmiri artist Abrar Qazi, reports Umar Mukhtar
As the Bollywood becomes a new...
A Master Battle
More than two decades after his two brothers including a medical doctor were killed in cold blood by an Ikhwan gang, a Communist Party-affiliated...
Backyard Democracy
Five of the nine phase-Panchayat polls are over. The exact details of the interesting stories would be known once the exercise concludes, reports Umar...
Bear Battles
As the conflict between the wildlife and the human beings is getting frequent at huge costs, nobody is looking at the personnel of the...
Real Kashmir Rises
In Kashmir’s rich football history, uncharitable comments of an elderly resident provoked a journalist to start an amateur club. As the game warmed up,...
Qadir’s Wild Search
His son went to a doctor and did not return. Next morning, he was taken by the army and released in a condition forcing...
‘Gujjars have been marginalised and neglected by both the regions’
Choudhary Zulfikar Ali is a Rajouri lawmaker who has been a minister in the just collapsed PDP government. He tells Umar Mukhtar the crisis...
