Skewed, Skimpy SKEWPY
Billed as a landmark, the government’s employment and welfare programme is mostly a cocktail of existing schemes with some more doles thrown in. Many...
BLOODLESS MURDER
They were launched as promising businesses but interfering politicians rendered them unviable. In effect shaking the lives of thousands of their employees. Haroon Mirani...
Switched Off
Busting the myth of normalcy, the union government has banned prepaid cellular service in J&K in a move that shakes four million users, seven...
Hand That Shakes
Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s. Using power as a lever afte Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s....
The Story So Far
Notwithstanding the massacres, unrest and detentions, there has rarely been any period during last two decades when New Delhi was not in touch with...
Now, Quiet Talks
New Delhi has given a new dimension to dialogue with Kashmir separatists by introducing “quiet talks” or “quiet diplomacy”. Why did the previous dialogues...
PACKAGING POLITICS
The last two decades have seen various prime ministers announce a flurry of economic packages for Jammu and Kashmir. The state government is expecting...
THE SHOPIAN LABYRINTH
(Women protesting in Shopian - Photo by: Bilal Bahadur)
The Shopain "rape and murders" have not only kept Kashmir on boil, but also buried many...
Shopian: Emergence of another bloodied landmark of control in Kashmir
By: PARVAIZ BUKHARI
The culprits of double rape and murder in Shopian may be criminals in uniform, but the series of damning official cover-ups so...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
WHO REPRESENTS INDIA IN KASHMIR?
Onset of militancy in 1989 witnessed Srinagar bound convoys bringing soldiers and guns to Kashmir valley and employees of central government departments and central...
OCCUPIED LANDS
The area under troop occupation in J&K is 527 sq km. That is more than the area of Maldives, Andorra and 41 other countries....
Collateral Damage
They fight painful memories, face hardships and an uncertain future. Tens of thousands of children orphaned by two decade conflict in Kashmir suffer silently....
A Quiet Surrender
The National Conference led government was keen to protect district cadre jobs for home districts alone. But when the moment arrived it chose to...
Whose Safety Act
Enacted in 1978 to nail political detractors Public Safety Act has been consistently strengthened and abused by successive governments. While its advisory board, a...
