Tral Trap
Amid claims of Kashmir bouncing back to halcyon days, army sees Tral as the new ‘militant hotspot’. The latest clash saw two fresh militant...
Justice AK-47
Systemic paralysis during militancy’s amorphous years in 1990s saw the closure of formal courts, ‘encouraging’ people to throng mobile informal courts. Safwat Zargar revisits...
Partition Agenda
Rightwing BJP seems in a hurry to force its agenda for the new government. Apart from seeking citizenship rights for the West Pakistan refugees,...
Lotus In Kashmir
In its attempts to create a foothold in the greener pastures of Kashmir, BJP over the years roped in valley’s political-nobodies, even holding hands...
Mufti’s Last Gamble?
After giving PDP the highest ever seats in a hung house, nobody knows why there is inordinate delay in setting up of a government...
Maverick In A Web
A fractured verdict has given Mufti Sayeed led PDP 28 seats. With BJP getting solid 25 seats from Jammu and the rest of the...
Next CM Is…
By Tuesday EVMs will reveal the verdict. By all accounts, neither two regional nor two national parties are expected to come even near to...
Fair Presence
There are many women in fray in 2014’s election for 87-seat assembly. As the state is heading towards the last phase, there are barely...
Bellwether Drabu
In his professional career of 30 years, Haseeb Drabu wore many hats and made many rudimentary shifts in how J&K thinks, earns, saves and...
Acid Test
Sufferings of remote Kupwara in last two decades created an ideal situation for any unconventional politician to have his debut, an opportunity that a...
In a Dilemma
Kashmir has experienced interestingly different elections, but the change in mainland India’s political landscape has led to an identity assertion which many think could...
Sindh’s ‘Changed’ Course
Ruling NC felt the heat this summer when its charming patriarch Dr Abdullah lost an election for the first time. In a quick follow-up,...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
circa 1947: A Long Story
After heading Information, Libraries and Archives Departments of J&K Government and retiring as Secretary of the Cultural Academy, Khalid Bashir Ahmad started probing the...
Flooded Faithfully
It was not individual greed or the policy failure at the highest decision-making levels only that Kashmir’s watercourse is facing barriers. Even the faithful...
