A Major Death
When a young army major was brought out dead from her Bari Brahmana quarter, the story ended with the assertion that it was a...
Judging the Victims!
Gulzar Peer’s acquittal shocked everybody including police. With fake Peer back behind bars and case listed in the High Court, Saima Bhat takes a...
Petty Thefts, Big Deal
Is it the kick that makes one steal petty things like plants, manhole covers, railings, telephone cables, flower pots etc or the money behind...
Sex Slavery
Abducted, she spent more than a year as a sex slave entertaining drug addicts, paedophiles and other criminals who brutalized her childhood. She was...
Predators @ Work
With just 3 cases a year related to harassment of women at workplaces reported in Kashmir, we are a proud lot. But one look...
Memon Memories
As Yakub Memon’s hanging triggered a debate across India, various Kashmiris knowing Mumbai’s Tiger after 1993 refreshed their memories telling Bilal Handoo how Delhi...
Guns In The Government
As the gun battles were in focus in the last 30 years, a section of bureaucracy was arming the deep-pocketed criminals. Now the CBI...
Driven to Death!
With an alarming rise in domestic violence cases women find themselves in a fix between reporting abuse and saving their marriages. Muntaha Hafizi reports...
Faking a marriage
In the last three years, the police have unearthed a series of gangs that would ‘solemnise’ marriages with already married women. The ‘brides’ would...
Ah, Set Afire
With conflict dominating the discourse, the ugly side of Kashmir’s routine is consigned to individual memory. To this was added a mother of two...
Dream Chaser
He tried his hands at teaching and then working for the government, but there was something that kept him looking for more. Saima Rashid...
Acidic Lives
Gruesome acid attacks take away victims' identity, pushes them to merely survive in shadows and bar them from interacting even with their own family....
Shaken Innocence
Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak...
A Monstrous Murder
After raising two sons in his more than three decades of marriage, an old man is strangulated to death and thrown into Dal lake....
The Scholarship story
A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...