Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Sheikh and Plebiscite
Biography of Kashmir’s tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has certain references that M J Aslam failed to get a plausible explanation from the history
Sheikh...
Jinnah And A Controversial Marriage
It is well known that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah argued for a politically sensitive case involving a Kashmir marriage in 1936 and won...
Tral’s Gufkrals’
On the foothills of Tral is a maze of caves that is an established archaeological site offering details about the early settlements of mankind...
An Amir Memory
After reading two books, he gave up a lucrative teacher’s job, which was the lone source of his income to feed a large family....
Begar In Kashmir History
The forced labour was part of Kashmir’s centuries’ old economic exploitation that killed generations in the service of the despots. Muzamil Rashid explains the...
Those Dark Days
Barely married he was and the partition took place. After surviving the massacres at his Reasi home, Karimuddin and his family fled deep into...
Before Pathan Raids
A series of developments took place before and after the crucial three days between October 23 and 27, 1947, but were deliberately not mentioned...
Exiled By Hijack
In between the two high-profile hijackings of 1971 and 1999 involving Kashmir, there was one least reported and much less talked about. Shams Irfan...
Between Red And Green
The right-wingers demolished Sheikh Abdullah’s ‘empire’ by taking their battle – Eak Vidhan, Eak Nishan, against the twin flags system to Srinagar. They, however,...
Article 35(A): The Evolution of A Protection
by M J Aslam
Any argument against Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India in isolation from the political and social conditions in which partition...
August 9, 1953: Why Sheikh Abdullah was removed?
by M J Aslam
A lot has been written about August 9, 1953, removal of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the chair of Kashmir’s Prime Minister. In...
When NC Ceased To Exist
If BJP undoes its erstwhile ally, the PDP in Kashmir, it may not be happening for the first time. A year after the Delhi...
Summer Slaughter
In one year, it took Tahir Bhat eight visits to police station Vilgam to attempt getting even the basic information about a watershed event....
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
