The Ghost Village
Continued turmoil did not trigger massive demographic upheavals and migrations alone. Jibran Nazir located a village in Kupwara that ceased to exist because population...
“I do not believe internet restrictions are consistent with human rights law obligations of...
United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye, recently termed internet ban in Kashmir as collective punishment. In a Skype...
A Tragic Life
After a young singer was released from detention by army during 90s, he confined himself to his room and took solace in drugs. Now...
Human Shields
After a mobile user recorded a few seconds of footage showing soldiers using a Shawl weaver as a human shield, moments after he cast...
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...
Deconstructing Disability
Last summer added scores to the already swelled list of conflict induced disables in Kashmir. In order to understand, how the unfortunate individuals are...
Pepper Paradise
In the wild goose chase for something to replace the deadly darker pellets, the government got pepper and PAVA. As the government is still...
12 Years Later
Twenty three days after the Sarojni Nagar blasts killed 62 people and left 210 injured, Delhi Police swooped on two homes in Kashmir and...
Reluctant Rebels
That was 2012 when three friends had come home after evening prayers that there was a killing in neighbourhood. Next morning, they were in...
Stones bleed
Pellets, bullets apart, while stones lead to injuries, there were some killings too, reports Saima Bhat
Stones were portrayed as the weapon of the weak....
Just An Encounter
For last more than two decades, it is quite normal in Kashmir to have an encounter, a gun battle between fugitives from law and...
Oh, Jana
The hope of having him alive keeps Jana Begum going. A witness to five deaths in last two decades, the old lady is waiting...
2010 Killings ‘Admitted’
M L Koul Commission that was entrusted with the investigations of 2010 unrest, belatedly in 2014, has finally submitted its report. Recommending one case...
Sopore Massacre
In Kashmir’s troubled history January is drenched in blood, literally. Jibran Nazir revisits the gory memories of Sopore massacre that consumed fifty three civilians...
Will Nazki deliver?
By Khursheed Wani
By the end of 2016, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) completed two decades of its existence in the trouble-torn J&K.Kashmir. It is...
