Kashmiri Teen’s Trauma Exposes Flawed Indian Justice
SRINAGAR, India, March 8, 2012 (AFP) – Syed Maqbool Shah, an aspiring teacher from Kashmir aged 17, was visiting his brother in New Delhi in June 1996 when police wrongly accused him of taking part in a bombing.
Izhar Poured his heart into reporting the conflict
The Kashmir valley, famously described in an Urdu couplet as “paradise on earth”, is now the heart of the revolt against New Delhi’s rule and has become heavily militarised.
His Look At The Kashmiri Boys And The Law
SRINAGAR, India -- Indian-ruled Kashmir has approved amendments to a tough law that allows detention of people without trial for two years and the arrest of youths as young as 16, an official said Saturday.
Using Tradition To Explain Political Conflict
For 30 years, Rashid Malik has walked the narrow lanes of Srinagar before dawn during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, waking up residents for another day of fasting.
Reporting Between The Lines
A Muslim policeman who flung a shoe at Indian Kashmir’s chief minister Omar Abdullah was hailed as a hero Monday, with thousands of people descending on his home village to congratulate his family.
Going Beyond Zojila
One year after a bitter border conflict that claimed 1,000 lives, the Himalayan Indian region of Kargil is managing to lure back some of the tourists who once flocked to the picturesque area.
Why I Kept Izhar’s Illness A Secret From The Fraternity In Delhi?
One of Izhar Wani’s earlier mentors, Sheikh Qayoom, a veteran journalist himself remembers the ‘gentleman of the tribe’ as someone who managed a smile...
INNOCENT BUT PUNISHED
It is not unique in the slow Indian justice delivery system, but its magnitude for some Kashmiris is. Before courts acquitted them many have...
Life of A Massacre
A massacre can perpetuate trauma in memory. The scars of Chittisinghpora will never vanish, but 12 years after 35 Sikhs were brutally gunned down...
The lone survivor: Nanak Singh
Bodies of victims killed in Chattisighpora massacre - Image courtesy: Sikh Siyasat
I was 46 years old in 2000. I was a government employee in...
The Pathribal Aftermath
Pathribal was a part of three successive and related killings which claimed 50 lives between March 20 and April 3, 2000. On March 20,...
Negotiating Power
Public discourse over J&K’s energy crisis has brought NHPC into sharp focus. A cabinet sub-committee, that revisited the history of the company’s ‘exploitative’ relationship...
When Believing ‘Heals’
Despite great advances in medicine, something has remained unchanged. The tradition of faith healing has survived in Kashmir. Shams Irfan caught up with some of...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Conflict And Chemistry
Militarized conflicts affect every aspect of social and private life. In Kashmir the last two decades have brought about a mental health catastrophe, but...
