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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

STARS OF WOUNDED PARADISE

In spite of batons, bombs, bullets, blockades, curfews, crackdowns, dannert wires, and discrimination, Kashmiris have excelled, are excelling and will excel. Kashmir Life celebrates...

The wordsmith

The 33-old journalist from Kashmir rose to fame with his book Curfewed Night, a powerful account of Kashmir in conflict. Peer’s book published by...

Love in Tokyo

Born in an Islamabad village, Ehsan Bukhari went to a local government school. Then nobody knew he would end up living in Japan, where...

What a kick

Mehraj-ud-din is not just an inspiration for the footballers of the state but an example for all the youth. Hailing from a modest background,...

Programming Taleem

Khan studied computer programming at home and soon went out to design software to digitize land records in Urdu. Khan’s software was installed on...

Melody

His nervousness didn’t last long, somebody among musicians pulled a string and the singer closed his eyes to sing the first line. The song was a call, from an old father to his disappeared son that lingers between hope and ambiguity.

Clicked

When there is a war going on and you hand a gun to a boy, he will learn simply by firing everyday—he learns through...

Risk manager

From an agriculture graduate to top notch financial wizard, Jumsheed Hussain has had a total U-turn in his career. He is probably the only...

Never skip a beat

He topped in the PGI Chandigarh exam, where he pursued DM in cardiology. He is also the pioneer of cardiac electrophysiology in Kashmir. Born...

Designing a dream

Saima Iqbal had a dream. She wanted to become an architect. Her career choice took her to MSIA College of Karnataka University. This was the first time she was away from home; completely on her own.

Piloting A Career

He was born and brought up in a labourer’s family in a Pulwama village around 73 km from Srinagar. His village lacked basic amenities...

Mechanical upgrade

In 1995, a 28 year old auto mechanic from a poor farmer family sells his father’s agricultural land for Rs 25,000 to realise his...

The Fall of The Feudal’s?

What has become of the erstwhile Zaildar families who dominated the society till the 1950s? Have they reconciled with the loss of paisa, power...

TROUBLED FRONTIER

Pakistan’s war against Taliban in its backyard has pitted it against its own people. IFTIKHAR GILANI, the first Kashmiri journalist to reach the troubletorn...

Punjab’s Kashmir connection

The colonial era governor house in Lahore boasts of two Kashmiri inmates. Its present incumbent, the 29th Governor of Pakistan’s largest province of Punjab, Salman Taseer and his media advisor Farrukh Shah. Son of famed Kashmiri intellectual and perhaps first Ph.D, Muhammad Din Taseer, Salman is a media magnate and an industrialist.