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Human Rights

Part of Kashmir’s history was dominated by the debate on rights and the liberties that individuals can avail. This section has exhaustive reportage of individuals and incidents that keep the debate going on.

Tragic Tales

Following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru, police and paramilitary forces have resorted to extreme use of pellet guns to deal...

Death of an Activist

A human rights activist by heart, a scholar by profession and a social worker by conscience, very few people must know that Tahir had...
Zuhaib Muhammad Khan

Vanished In Darkness

  Two residents of a Batamaloo neighborhood in Srinagar with similar names were picked up by forces of 22 RR and subjected to enforced disappearance...
Ali Mohammad Najar and his parents

Death Of A Carpenter

Taken as a human shield, Ali remained buried under the rubble of a house and burnt brutally in the fire caused by mortar shelling...
A soldier stands gaurd in Bohri Kadal on January 22, 1990 a day afetr the massacre -- Photo: Mehraj Din

Gawkadal A Massacre, A Case

It took 22 years for the State Human Rights Commission to order a formal inquiry into Gawkadal massacre in which scores of harmless people...

Pulwama Firing: Suhail Is Losing His Memory

Saima Bhat Srinagar Suhail Ahmad Malik, 15, a class 9th student doesn’t remember what exactly happened with him on December 28, 2012 when forces opened fire...

Waiting For Justice

A brave widow from J&K’s summer capital, Srinagar, has been fighting against all odds for 19 years to get justice for her husband who...

Whose “Daminis” Are They?

While the civil society in India is mourning, and rightly so, the horrible rape and murder of a girl in Delhi, it has conveniently...

Grave Document

Being first of its kind, a report on the alleged human rights violations in J&K, since the onset of militancy here, has indicted personnel,...
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The Daughter

Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Dilshada at her residence in Zakoora on the outskirts of Srinagar | Inset: Dilshad's missing Husband Bashir Ahmed Sheikh -- Photo: Hashim Hakeem

Living a Tragedy

Twenty years ago, a painter disappeared mysteriously in Srinagar. His traumatized wife went from police to judiciary to jails to seek answers but no...
Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

The J&K High Court ruling seeking reinvestigation of the 1998 Sailan Massacre in which 19 members of a family including 13 women were shot...
Travesty Of Justice-Cover Story

TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE

Incarcerated for nearly 17 years in Delhi’s Tihar jail, two youth from Kashmir, who were falsely implicated for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat...
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VALLEY OF TEARS

Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...
Live encounter -- Photo:Bilal Bahadur.

Mistaken Identity

Last week, two soldiers were killed and three others injured at Chittergam on the outskirts of Srinagar when a fellow army unit fired on...