Depressed Dangerously
Fast life, career rat race, destabilized families and the conflict have created such a mess of Kashmir’s mind that melancholy has become the new...
Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
Inside Islamabad
Chief Minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti is heading for election from her father’s Islamabad assembly seat later this month. The place has changed many masters...
The Groundbreakers
After creating its own identity in the situation that engulfed Kashmir in recent past, Sonawari belt suffered silently under an exploitative broker rule pushing...
Next Tosamaidan?
After winding up its half-a-century-old gory shell-campaign at Tosamaidan in 2014, army is exploring alternative area. Bajpathri, the fascinating meadow between Pulwama, Budgam and...
Charar After Mast Gul
When the Frontier fighter Mast Gul descended down from peaks with his group for a winter sojourn to the revered Chrar-e-Sharief, it led to...
Garrison, My Home
Life changes its details once the home relocates. It sounds completely different when new situation surrounds the home. Shams Irfan meets a group of...
The Gilgit Rebel
From Gilgit to Kupwara, Srinagar to Jammu and eventually from Muzaffarabad to London, Amanullah Khan Astori lived an eventful life to preach third-option for...
Bunker Belligerence
Razing of Handwara bunker apparently vindicated sections in the governance structure and civil society that improved situation should dictate reducing the footprints of counter-insurgency...
Terror Square
Twenty six years after Handwara witnessed the first blood, two youth became the latest casualty, triggering a new chain of protests and killings in...
Newsy Nine
Takeover by a new PDP-BJP government was extra-ordinary phenomenon. After three months of tense wait and intense interactions between the allies, the new government...
Captive Childhood
When a marriage falls apart it’s the children who become first casualty of the crisis. Away from the secrecy of living rooms, couples fight...
Touch-and-Go
In 2015, Mufti Sayeed took two months to negotiate a common minimum programme with BJP. Ten months later, his daughter spent a quarter in...
MUFfed
The rise of Muslim United Front (MUF) at the peak of a disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar led to unprecedented participation in the 1987...
Bomb Hunters
Historically, landmines have remained the lovely little things in fighters’ arsenals. In fact every conflict zone has its inventory of deaths and destruction that...
