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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.

Justice Denied: Sopore 1993

Dubbed as militancy capital, the Sopore town was subjected to a series of carnages and arson during the 1990s. After 45 coffins of charred...

A Master Battle

More than two decades after his two brothers including a medical doctor were killed in cold blood by an Ikhwan gang, a Communist Party-affiliated...

Red Calendar

With the overall death toll highest in a decade, Aaqib Hyder does not foresee any shift in the next year given the lack of...

Missing Mysteries

On this World Human Rights Day, the issue of disappeared in the custody would remain a huge question mark over the governance structure of...

Wounded Womb

Regardless of peace and war, mothers are naturally emotional beings, neutral to every other thing around. What happens when a mother loses a son?...

Qadir’s Wild Search

His son went to a doctor and did not return. Next morning, he was taken by the army and released in a condition forcing...

A Body Snatcher

Nobody knows about the body-bags he might have filled during his Kashmir posting. But Major Gogoi, who was finally sent to the Court Martial,...

Summer Slaughter

The residents in Pazipora still tremble and fret with the memories of August 10, 1990 shooting, that killed 26 civilians in a few minutes

Molvi’s Murder

It has been years since the only brother of five Ganderbal sisters was murdered in a distant Rajasthan town where he was enrolled in...

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....

Horror In Hawoora

A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later soldiers came and sent...

Pulwama’s Poswal

Umar Mukhtar met the doctor whose son was born and raised in the same hospital where he was declared dead and offered the funeral...

A ‘Mad’ Mother

Deserted by her husband, she lived for the only son she owned after a legal battle over his possession. When he was supposed to...

Driven Over

Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family to understand the boy...

Requiem for Rehti

Since 1998 when her fingers were broken by the soldier who took her son, Rehti did not leave even a single garrison across Kashmir...