Umar Mukhtar
Umar Mukhtar is a Srinagar based journalist. He is covering human rights and the changing political landscape of the valley.
‘Shujaat’s Killings Has Instilled Fear”
Kashmir’s most popular journalist Yusuf Jameel tells Umar Mukhtar
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the difference between the 1990s and 2018 as far as coverage...
Pulwama’s Poswal
Umar Mukhtar met the doctor whose son was born and raised in the same hospital where he was declared dead and offered the funeral...
Mir Syed Shujaat Bukhari
by Umar Mukhtar
The journey of Shujaat Bukhari’s life started in his native village Kreeri in Baramulla, which he left after finishing his secondary school...
Lal Singh’s Red Line, The Complete Story
by Umar Mukhtar
SRINAGAR: Doing it for one more time, the controversial Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) lawmaker Choudhary Lal Singh and former BJPDP minister Friday,...
Pitch Inertia
While sports is being seen as the only way-out in youth engagement, Umar Mukhtar found nothing much on ground in infrastructure as most of the funds...
Ek Tha Tiger
In a fierce gun-battle between militants and the army, Hizb ul Muahideen lost a major face in south Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar visited the baker’s...
Classroom In Crisis
In 47 days of schooling in Kashmir, classes were open for 24 days only. What it means for parents who spend hugely on education...
That Bloody Sunday
As Shopian killings paralysed Kashmir for almost a week, yet again, Umar Mukhtar spent crisis-time down south in locating and meeting the families of...
Clashes erupt in Pulwama’s Koil village
Umar Mukhtar
Srinagar: Clashes broke out on Saturday evening between the youth and government forces in Koil village of south Kashmir's Pulwama district against the...
Muslim Untouchables
Equality is something that had universal appeal and one of the key factors that helped Kashmir embrace it almost half a millennium after it...
Corn on the go
A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...
Massacring A Village
Twenty years after eight Kashmiri Pandits were killed, the Sangrampora village is in ruins because both Muslims and Pandits migrated to other places. Umar...
Kashmir remembers publishing pioneer Noor Mohammad
by Umar Mukhtar
SRINAGAR: This week was the anniversary of Noor Mohammad, the pioneer of book publishing in Kashmir. The family and the J&K Cultural...
Chai Walla
After losing almost everything to the deadly earthquake in 2005, Haneef lost his wife to the shock a year later. Well before, he could...
‘We are resilient. Time has taught us, how to survive.’
President of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry Javed Ahmad Tenga tells Umar Mukhtar
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What challenges you see for the Kashmir trade?
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