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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.

Why?

As the four districts are trying to get a semblance of routine after losing 77 youth in 2016 unrest, amid frequent interventions in bloody...

Waiting For Gashe’

Nightmare for Ganai family of Shopian began in 2003 with the mysterious disappearance of their second son. After disappearance, death of their eldest son...

Murder Memories

Hours after a militant attack in Dialgam, the soldiers barged into a few houses in the locality and dragged out three civilians whose slaughtered...

Talking Torture

At a time when the three United Nations officials are engaged in a tense situation with Government of India on the state of human...

No Pellets Please

As the Kashmir pellet victims are desperately trying to find some miracle cure that could enable them to have some kind of eyesight, the...

Left Alone

The faces symbolising the battle for justice are fighting at many fronts. While the world knows their protracted struggle to get justice from the...

Pushed to Cliff

Gunfights claiming lives in Kashmir is a daily occurrence, however, using civilians as human shield depicts the darker side of the counter-insurgency. Umar Mukhtar...

 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...

Oppressed in Kashmir

A team of civil society members from New Delhi visited Kashmir after the summer unrest. In its report, it indicts the army and the...

Tales of torture

The first incumbent of the infamous torture centre turned guest house PAPA 2  arranged its exorcism to ward off the evils of its past....
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...

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...

Jail Memoir

The 76-days detention was revealing to the human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who walked out last week from Kot Bhalwal. He shares his indelible...

Horrors of Anonymous Kills

the reports of thousands of unidentified graves of unknown people in Poonch horror stories of the anonymously killed are also coming alive. A Kashmir...

After The Dark Night

In an August night of 1990 BSF personnel barged into homes of Mashali Mohalla residents killing nine people. Mehbooba lost half of her family,...