Denied
International watchdog Amnesty International’s latest report on human rights abuses in Kashmir titled Denied: Failures in accountability for human rights violations by security force...
Free KU
In last 25 years of conflict, Kashmir University has seen many phases, including the troubled ones. But there was never an instance when students...
Dark Streets
The first day of Ramazan in Kashmir was marked by curfew like restrictions in Srinagar and Sopore. The otherwise busy bazaars of Srinagar were...
Messy Roads
In last few years travelling to Srinagar from any part of the valley has become one hell of a hectic affair. Reason. Massive traffic...
Weather Costs
For the last three quarters, everybody was hopeful that the devastation wrecked by the unprecedented September 2014 floods would pave way for an elaborate...
Discrimination?
Most of the post-partition era was dominated by one key debate in J&K—”discrimination”. There have been already two commissions of enquiries looking into the...
The Way Out
In his maiden budget proposals when state’s finance minister Dr Haseeb Drabu said he intends to make government services unattractive, he was not announcing...
Omissions In Commissions
Constitution of inquiry commissions has been in fashion for a long time now. Accepting or rejecting recommendations of a Commission is the prerogative of...
Tufail Tragedy
It has been five years now that J&K government has been unable to tell the society who killed tenth grader Tufail Mattoo, whose murder...
Davos Dream
The timing could have been better if not perfect for having a wishful thinking to convert ailing tourist resort Gulmarg into India’s Davos (Switzerland)....
‘Will Be’ Government
It has already two months since Mufti Mohammad Syed took over as Kashmir’s CM after forging an alliance with right wing Indian nationalist party...
Blurred Focus
There seems to be something terribly wrong with our policymakers. They seem to have their focus blurred. What figures on their priority list has...
Choked Lives!
The fabled Jhelum is breathing its last. And we are sitting on the dykes, with our hands folded leisurely, watching it die every day....
Disaster in Making
Floods are a reality in Kashmir now. Let’s accept this fact. But by accepting this fact it doesn’t mean that we should simply acknowledge...
Third Party, No Party
Being one of the oldest disputes in the world, Kashmir has more than once brought nuclear neighbours India and Pakistan close to war. A...
