A Grave Issue
Apparently to prevent mass gathering at militant funerals, security grid has abandoned the practice of transferring foreign militant corpses to residents for burial. Instead,...
Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
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....
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Distant Burials
Families whose members were buried by authorities in distant graveyards citing pandemic want the restrictions must be eased now for all, reports Farzana Nisar
Dressed in...
A Widow’s Life
An overwhelming 91 per cent of widows choose not to remarry in Muslim majority Kashmir as they are stigmatized and their children are not...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Widows of Tosa Maidan
With Bajpathri threatening to set off a winter of discord in Kashmir for figuring in a probable list of new firing ranges, the old...
INNOCENT BUT PUNISHED
It is not unique in the slow Indian justice delivery system, but its magnitude for some Kashmiris is. Before courts acquitted them many have...
Mehand Murders
Homes and properties getting up in smoke are not so uncommon in Kashmir. But blasting a home along with its inmates is something that people...
A Step Ahead
It’s a difficult life for landmine victims, but one man hopes he can help alleviate their suffering. Tasavur Mushtaq reports on one individual’s crusade for...
Emptied Lap
The turmoil has exacted a heavy toll on Kashmir. For each causality reported there is an unreported emptied lap. Shazia Khan meets a few...
Cry, Not Bite
By Masood Hussain
I am pretty embarrassed; I told the official function of the SHRC, the main official watchdog for civil liberties in the state,...
Pellet Debts
After their youngest son was hit by pellets at the peak of 2016 unrest, Rasheed and Wazira Sheikh borrowed a lot of money from...
“At least 100 army men were there in Kunan that night so one can...
He was the first government official to visit Kunan after the mass rape in 1991 and his report resulted in his immediate transfer. In...
