Price We Pay
In the absence of expertise to deal with unarmed protesters, police invents new ways to quell young voices of dissent in Kashmir. A day...
Cruel Crisis
In the aftermath of Gool when J&K was mourning from Gujar Nagar to Kargil, sectarian clashes erupted in the Valley’s belly. As violence raged...
The Conundrum At Kunan
From a day long protest at the peak of militancy in 1991 to the return in sharp public focus in 2013, the Kunan case...
Bond of Faith
The ripples of Gool massacre were felt across the Pir Panjal as Kashmir valley erupted in protests bringing closer the historically estranged people. Shah...
The Kunan Questions
The remote Kupwara village is a milestone in Kashmir’s tragedy. For the last more than two decades, the entire anger is directed towards the...
Mountain Massacre
The killings in Gool, a Godforsaken bowl nestled in the Pir Panchal peaks, offered residents a day to be on roads for the first...
“For around 15 minutes, nobody knew who is where and who is doing what....
State’s junior Home Minister Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo led the state government team to Gool that was at the peak of crisis. He spoke to...
Waiting For Justice
People heard the killer preside over the mourning but would talk in whispers till the judiciary took over. Papa Kishtwari, the erstwhile villain who...
Kunan Victims Recount “The Ordeal”
At a seminar in Srinagar, various victims from Kunan spoke publicly of their ordeal and threw questions to the society, reports Bilal Handoo
"Our children...
The Killing Entrepreneur
As counter-insurgency became the main priority of the government, it created its own stars. In the Chenab Valley, far away from Srinagar and Jammu,...
A Long Wait
A PIL seeking reinvestigation into the 22-year-old Kunan Poshpora mass rape case was turned down by the J&K High Court. While the petitioners have...
Prison Dairies
Former inmates who served in various jails across Jammu and Kashmir, and the lawyers who visited them, reveal an awful tale of official apathy...
The Kot Bhalwal Keepsaker
As India and Pakistan debate security in jails after the murder of Sarabjit Singh and Sanaullah Ranjay, Shams Irfan meets some of the families...
Caught on Camera
An amateur video showing J&K policemen stripping and assaulting two teenage boys inside a police station in north Kashmir went viral on social networking...
A Victim of Fate
In the aftermath of Afzal Guru’s hanging, a 13-year-old boy found himself in the middle of a protest and almost lost his life. Surviving...
