Newsmakers
VISITED: Former Chief Ministers, Dr Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad, who are cabinet ministers in federal government at Delhi visited Jammu. Both were...
Crime and sentiment
Zamir AhmadLife seems to have come full circle for the denizens of this God forsaken land. The events of the last week fall into...
CRISIS MISHANDLED
For the last one week, Kashmir is literally on fire. A young mother and a teenager were found dead in isolated peripheries of Shopian
Cities within Srinagar City
Gull M Wani
Srinagar is the city I have known all through my life. I first came to see it as a small boy with my father and later to join the NCC camp as a student of middle school Panzath Qazigund. It was really fascinating then to come to Srinagar from a really rural setting and be a participant in certain socio-religious activities. As I joined Degree college Anantnag I used to come to Kashmir University to take part in inter-college volley ball tournaments. Interestingly the physical college was located at Naseem Bagh campus where after some time I had to join the department of political Science as a postgraduate student. Today I live in Kashmir University campus as a professor in the same department and as a family man. Srinagar has now so to say become my second home. I do make frequent trips to Qazigund –my ancestral home and it continues to be my political laboratory to understand politics in substantive terms.
A Crisis of Our Own Making
by Arshad Malik
I doubt whether there would be much left in the coming years to protect and fight for. Kashmir as a landlocked territory...
Iftikhar Hussain Ansari
Iftikhar Hussain Ansari’s new found political over-enthusiasm was visible just about everywhere in the valley past week– from Srinagar where he, along with other Peoples Democratic Party legislators, was protesting against the government over the Shopian
“Profitability High on Lending Operations in Jammu and Kashmir”
State’s only listed company, the J&K Bank declared a profit of Rs 409.84 crores for 2008-09. This is the highest ever profit that the...
Cost of protest
Strikes have been the most common feature of separatist struggle since 1989. Hamidullah Dar reports the price that people and institutions pay for paralyzing...
Women: Shrinking role
Findings of two censuses, 1981 and 2001, show how women in Kashmir are being limited to home primarily by the thick presence of troops. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Permanent deployment of forces for counter insurgency is not only about occupation of space – agriculture lands, public utilities and orchards, it essentially leads to greater contact with the civilian population resulting in friction that slowly and steadily takes its toll one way or the other. The hitherto unreported impact of this condition is reflected by rise in the number of female non-workers in Kashmir.
By working alongside men in fields and orchards, women have traditionally remained viably active in economic pursuits in Kashmir’s social set up. Besides managing almost half of the burden of activities in agriculture and horticulture sectors, women would collect fire-wood, medicinal plants and other produce from forests to add to the meagre resources at home. But all these activities now stand curtailed due to many factors, chief among them being the thick presence of forces.
Murder most foul
JK Government’s one-man inquiry commission to probe the alleged rape and murder of a women and a teenage girl in Shopian, has its task...
Obama’s oratory: Deeds will have to follow words
Tarique A Bhat
Opening with the greetings of “Shukran” and “As-salaam-alaikum,” his speech was filled with appreciation for Muslim
Has the Governor rule ended?
SHahnawaz Khan
Tell me. Has the Governor rule ended? In January they told me it has. I breathed a sigh of relief. I told my friends, it is over. The six month tenure of the down to earth gentleman governor which saw death of more than fifty civilians, most of them unarmed protestors chanting slogans of freedom, or protesting against an economic blockade of the Valley by Hindu zealots of Jammu.
Tell me. Has the Governor rule ended? In January they told me it has. I breathed a sigh of relief. I told my friends, it is over. The six month tenure of the down to earth gentleman governor which saw death of more than fifty civilians, most of them unarmed protestors chanting slogans of freedom, or protesting against an economic blockade of the Valley by Hindu zealots of Jammu.
The illusive road
Deesa Kapran road can not only connect Doda with Kashmir Valley and trigger development in remote areas, it can also provide an alternate link...
Politics over Shopian
Across the political divide, politicians harped on the alleged rape and murder case to bring their parties to life. Few, however, found people responding to their calls. Shahnawaz Khan reports.
As the death of two young women under mysterious circumstances in Bongam Shopian stirred unrest across Kashmir Valley, politicians from different parties and groups also jumped in the fray with their political stunts.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Mehbooba Mufti first appeared in Lal Chowk with her legislators and party supporters protesting against the alleged rape and murder. Accusing government of covering up, she tried to lead her supporters to Maisuma and interior localities of Lal Chowk, but she could not find sympathies from the stone pelting protestors unimpressed by her stunt.
How they feel?
The alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian has shocked one and all in the Valley. Shazia Khan talks to a few women to see how they react to the incident.
Shayna Shah,
Student, Disaster Management
It is not first time when such an incident has occurred in valley. Over the past many years, we have witnessed scores of similar incidents. All these incidents have weakened our self esteem. We are living under constant fear and are not able to move freely.
If India is claiming Kashmir as its part, why such atrocities against us? Don’t we deserve to live our lives on our own conditions and terms? They have created situation here that is more like a war. Our voices are crushed by bullets and teargases. No women, no human being deserves such a treatment. Let us know how long we need to be subjected to this situation. We want a change to our situation. We don’t need anybody’s handout.
Shayna Shah,
Student, Disaster Management
It is not first time when such an incident has occurred in valley. Over the past many years, we have witnessed scores of similar incidents. All these incidents have weakened our self esteem. We are living under constant fear and are not able to move freely.
If India is claiming Kashmir as its part, why such atrocities against us? Don’t we deserve to live our lives on our own conditions and terms? They have created situation here that is more like a war. Our voices are crushed by bullets and teargases. No women, no human being deserves such a treatment. Let us know how long we need to be subjected to this situation. We want a change to our situation. We don’t need anybody’s handout.
