Whither Mufti doctrine?

On the first death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Delhi indicated that he will become the second posthumous Padma Vibushan from J&K ever. Honours...

Implementing The Agenda  

Demographic engineering is a subject that has historically triggered tensions in Kashmir. Last week when the state government started issuing ‘domicile certificates’ to West...

Work In Progress…

As Chief Minister announced that she will be monitoring 100 top projects across J&K, Tasavur Mushtaq investigates to find out that 90 percent of...

Lalla Rookh Eyes

Exactly 200 years after Irish blind poet Thomas Moore sang in praise of Kashmir, its beauty, its women and their eyes in his epic...

Dismissed

For the first time in last three decades, the government took the ambitious decision of terminating its own employees for fomenting trouble. There is...

Chai Pe Charcha

by Masood Hussain It was proverbial pellet disbursal on Monday last when the activities picked up quickly. While Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was driven to his...

Killed Unpalatably

Stone and the stone-thrower remained unchanged as the response jumped from bamboo shield-tear smoke mix to pellet- PAVA combine. It was consistently asserted that...

Closed Doors

In third month of crisis, neither Delhi nor Srinagar is visibly indicating any sort of willingness to seriously engage Kashmir, reduced to a problem...

Recycling Autonomy?

  In anticipation of the all party delegation visit to Kashmir, various political parties started talking about pushing clocks back in the Delhi-Srinagar relationship. Nothing...

Quietly Unwilling

Understanding the costs that negotiating any kind of deal can have, Sangh Parivaar is resisting pressure from the political class in Delhi to engage...

Robust Rhetoric

As Kashmir entered into the second month of crisis at exorbitant costs to its overall well-being, the governments in Srinagar and Delhi are yet...

Calmly Clueless?

With Kashmir’s grave crisis already into second month at an exorbitant cost, the government is waiting its Delhi ally to give it a confidence...

Blinding SOP

Amid piling load of pellet-blinds in valley’s another seething summer, Kashmir threatens to become a miserable home of dark lives. As eye assault continues...

Smouldering Summer

Six years after 2010 summer triggered Kashmir’s new age militancy, killing of a young rebel stirred up another summer of dissenting and bloodletting. With...

Unmoved

As Kashmir is getting into the fourth week of unrest following Burhan killing in Bamdoora down-south, nothing much is  visible in response from the...