Blood on Turf
The wait is not over yet. Nine years have passed since army’s ‘bad-boy’ Rambo killed four youngsters in broad daylight. Saqib Hussain Mugloo recounts...
Grave Reports
Amid ceaseless complaints of torture, abduction and new age pellet assault in Kashmir, two documents released recently point out the ghastly security onslaught in...
Decapitated Justice
After its repeated calls for an independent investigation in mass graves SHRC is decapitated. Shakir Mir spends a day at the commission to see...
Jail tales
Picked up by BSF on suspicion during troubled 90s, Riyaz Ahamd Hajji ended up spending 19 years in torture centres and jails across India....
Not Good, Guddi
25 years of conflict has flipped many fortunes. When Basharat Shah, a Batamaloo gold medallist from AMU disappeared, his family changed forever. Guddi, his...
Maze of Military Justice
In its latest report, human rights watchdog Amnesty International says the continued use of AFSPA has created a vast web that frustrates the idea...
Half A Decade Later, Tufail Mattoo’s Killers Still At Large
Durdana Bhat
SRINAGAR
Today is the 5th death anniversary of Tufail Mattoo—the school boy whose skull was busted open with a tear gas shell inside a...
Pellet Blinds
Skipping the raging debate over lethality of the non-lethal weaponry – in vogue for six years now, Saima Bhat meets pellet blinds in their...
Pellet Pains
Saqib Wani
Aspiring to be an engineer, Aaqib Bashir Bhat, 16, of Bhat Mohalla Palhallan wants to study hard but can’t do it for more...
Pelleted Palhalan
Images of a Palhalan boy’s face dotted with pellets haunted Kashmir’s conscience for days. But he was not the only one injured that day....
“Whether it is a hydro electric project, Indus water treaty, it is the people...
Beyond the visible causes for September 2014 deluge in valley, lie the subtle reasons rooted in the network of occupation. The recently released document...
Reliving Khalid
Khalid Muzaffar Wani was killed in an army firing in Kamla forest on April 13, 2015. Brother of Hizb commander, Khalid’s killing was widely...
Haunted Heaven
A breathtaking view of a hamlet in north Kashmir’s Langate turns deceptive once its moment of truth unfolds. Much to one’s disbelief, the hamlet...
Acquitted, A Generation Later
NIA has established that Liyaqat Shah was framed by Delhi Police and has suggested action against a few. But how the government will give...
Wanna Bowl Again!
In the 2008 uprising over Amarnath land row that led to the killing of dozens of boys, scores of others were maimed by bullets...
