Can Electoral Politics Envisage Resistance?
by Muhammad Tahir
On Wednesday, January 9, 2019, well-known Kashmiri bureaucrat Shah Faesal announced his resignation from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) on Facebook, citing...
Why Do Not You Meet The People Who Gave Up Electoral Politics?
by Mubasher Rashid
Dear Faesal,
At the outset, I thank God for adverse weather forecast tomorrow (Friday) in Kashmir, which made you postpone the scheduled interaction...
How different is your tryst with the electoral politics from the MUF?
by Irfan Iqbal
Dear Dr Shah,
I don’t want to judge the reasons of your decision of resigning from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) nor do...
What does a shutdown cost in Kashmir?
by Younis Sideeq Wani
Have you ever been to Kashmir? Ever witnessed a shutdown? It is very common in the valley, as cheap as a...
Why All Is Not Well In The JK Public Service Commission?
by Hamid Rather
Since the declaration of KAS-2016 mains results on December 4, both dropped and selected aspirants have taken to streets to protect their self-interests....
Why Kashmir Should Avoid Getting Minors’ Into Conflict?
by Zahid Iqbal Shah
The battle of Badar was the first and the most critical battle in the history of Islam. The importance of Badar...
Are Kashmiris Not Indian Citizens?
by Nazir Masoodi
During the 2010 civilian unrest in Kashmir, an all-party delegation led by the Home Minister P Chidambaram visited the Valley to reach...
Why Government Does Not Care About Its Own Environment Policy?
by Athar Parvaiz
After dithering over it for years, the Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment uploaded the draft of State Environment Policy (SEP) 2018...
KAS Results: Why Blackmail, Why Fear?
by Zeeshan Khan
Ideally, I should be preparing for my KAS interview and not writing this piece. But I am not. Instead, I am forced...
Virtual Crime: What Is Myth and What is Reality?
In the concluding part of the 3-part series on internet, Azra Hussain writes about the double edged weapon of anonymity that state and non-state actors...
Why Militant Slaying Are Contract Supari Killings?
by Haseeb A Drabu
Last Saturday, 11 people were killed in Pulwama, Kashmir. This is the latest, not the last, an episode in an unending...
What Is Deep Web?
by Azra Hussain
As the internet grew steadily throughout the mid to late 1990s, it brought with itself the major upside of better and faster...
What is the Internet?
by Azra Hussain
The internet is one of the many commodities that users often take for granted. Nobody ever questions its existence – it’s just...
Why I Am Still Waiting For My Militant Brother?
by Syed Tajamul Imran
Few events change history and few storms shatter families. In past thirty years of unending bloodshed, one after other storms has...
Understanding Mir Jafar, Mir Sadiq
by M J Aslam
"Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat its mistakes"
George Santayana
Hostilities cease on death. That is why the cops...
