Reduce Numbers
If there is one lesson that has come through in the last 20 years of militancy it is that the gun is not solution – be it in the hands of the army or the militants. If this is the basic premise, then a decisive move has to be made to reduce not only the physical presence of the armed forces
A brief analysis of Kashmiri angst
Arshid Malik
“Terrible are the wounds of a broken dream”, wrote Jiri Wolker. Beyond doubt every dream that Kashmiri people have dared to dream - be it of peace, stability or security - has been fractured halfway and the wounds are so terrible that perhaps we might never ever dare to dream again. It is known that when the tendency of a people to dream is contained it generates tremendous angst. This is the very characteristic angst that boils in the streets of Kashmir today. Our dreams have been snatched away from us, somewhere in the shape of our sons and sisters and elsewhere as pure hopes to lead a secure life.
All attempts made at measuring or molding this breed of angst by “standard” means and measures only aggravates the situation, and that is just what has been happening around here in the past one year. The present governing r?gime led by a young Chief Minister has been incessantly attempting to comprehend and judge the present scenario in Kashmir from a fixed, traditional and immobile point of view.
Er Rasheed
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Unrest in China’s Muslim Xinjiang
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Reid & Taylor strengthens Kashmir Bond
Global fabric giant Reid & Taylor is procuring more tweed from Kashmir and promises to showcase it in a big way. Haroon Mirani reports.
Strengthening...
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WITHDRAWING CRPF
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stumbles on his moves to replace the CRPF by police, stating that state lacked enough police strength. What nobody tells...
Weather blues
Subnormal temperatures are making the summer pleasant but crops are bearing the brunt. Haroon Mirani reports on the threats of erratic weather to crops...
A Trust Questioned
The major custodian of Muslim properties in Kashmir, Waqf or Auqaf, has remained beyond scrutiny for decades, though its management of donations and assets...
Confusion confounded
He described the autopsy and forensic reports of Shopain rape and murder inconclusive, but Justice Jan himself came out not only with an inconclusive...
Not a human’s job
For two decades, Maqbool was the only autopsy man in Kashmir. He tells Zubair A. Dar that knifing thousands of bodies has taken toll...
Newsmakers
SNUBBED: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has snubbed state Congress leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad for questioning “visible administrative inexperience” of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah....
Successful entrepreneur, empowered woman
Mir Javeed profiles the success story of Nuzhat Maqbool, a young and successful entrepreneur, who is the only female distributor of Fast Moving Consumer...
