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....
Confusion confounded
He described the autopsy and forensic reports of Shopain rape and murder inconclusive, but Justice Jan himself came out not only with an inconclusive...
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...
Kashmir’s Moon Owners
by Raashid Andrabi
On Shahid Yaqoob Khan’s birthday, Srinagar-born Hina Bashir was looking for something special to gift her husband. She is a programme coordinator...
Decimated By Drugs
Talking about drug abuse is the new fashion statement of the socio-political elite, media and academia. The menace has reached a level that now...
Kathua And Kashmir
In goriest kidnapping and murder of the Rasana Bakerwal girl, the special court verdict came in record time. Of eight accused, one was acquitted,...
Denuding Kashmir
Timber smuggling fuelled by a construction boom is causing widespread destruction to the forests in Kashmir in the absence of a coherent forest policy...
Kashmir’s Knife Crimes
It requires a lot of comparative data to suggest if teenage knife crimes have gone up but the fact is incidents of stabbing are...
Playing With Marriage!
A dejected employee exploited loopholes in J&K’s existing marriage registration system to blackmail his boss by marrying his daughter ‘legally’ without her knowledge. Syed...
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...
Molvi’s Murder
It has been years since the only brother of five Ganderbal sisters was murdered in a distant Rajasthan town where he was enrolled in...
A Chilling ‘Voice’
The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...
Daughters First
Reports of women abuse in the family set-up indicate a crisis that the Kashmir society may have to tackle up-front. It will start a...
Deconstructing A Protest
It looks so simple to register a protest. When the protest drags on for a month, sustaining it becomes a festering resource and emotional...
Will exhumation lead the way?
Investigations into Shopian rape and murder has been complicated by loss of critical evidence. Autopsy has been deemed inconclusive. The question now is whether...
