‘The fear, threat and shrinking space for dissent is a key factor that marks...
Rajani Patil is a third-generation politician. Her grandfather, Ganesh Pingle, a member of the Gadar Movement, was hanged in Lahore by the British in...
‘We Are All Victims of History’
PDP leader Naeem Akhter tells Kashmir Life in an interview
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): An officer, politician, then a minister and finally a prisoner. How has been this long...
‘Ice Stupas Were Copied In Switzerland, Skardu, Peru and Sikkim’
People who watched Amir Khan’s Three Idiots might not have forgotten the character named Phunsukh Wangdu. He is a living legend of Ladakh who...
‘We Will Not Allow Jobless Politicians To Enter Panchayats’
Shafiq Mir, Chairman All J&K Panchayat Conference, tells Hirra Azmat
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the role of Panchayat after the abrogation of article 370?
SHAFIQ...
“The visit of Hurriyat(M) to Pakistan is of no significance to Kashmir issue”
With a crisis-ridden Hurriyat (M) slated to visit Pakistan on Dec 17, Syed Ali Geelani tells Tasavur Mushtaq that his Tehreek-e-Hurriyat party won’t accept...
‘The strongest instinct to pick up the gun is political, not money or governance...
In the intermittent hot discussions on issues confronting J&K in the ongoing budget session, NC Working President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made...
‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’
A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...
‘Sky Is the Limit For Cross LoC Trade’
He headed Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its most critical juncture. After his extended tenure was over, Dr Mubeen Shah flew...
“Examinations are neither being held by me nor because of me”
State’s Education Minister Naeem Akhter regrets the villain’s image that he earned over his assertions that education is key to the overall growth and...
‘Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, This State Is Not An Artificial Entity’
Justice Hasnain Masoodi, the former judge whom people elected to Lok Sabha against Mehbooba Mufti, tell Saima Bhat he will be the voice of...
Weekly is a tough job
After 27 successful years as a weekly, Chattan turned daily. Its editor Tahir Mohi-ud-Din talks about the emergence of Chattan as a political weekly,...
“It Is Modi’s Responsibility to Consider Kashmiris as Humans’
Engineer Sheikh Rasheed tells Saima Bhat how God’s grace, peoples’ support and Facebook helped him
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): In the Lok Sabha elections, you are...
“Infertility in Kashmir has now emerged as a new challenge”
Doctor Syed Sajjad runs ‘Med Age’, an infertility clinic in Sringar. Umar Mukhtar talks to the expert about the state and status of the...
“India and Pakistan had come close to clinching a deal on Kashmir”
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (74), occupied the post of Pakistan’s foreign minister between November 2002 and November 2007, under the regime headed by then President...
“We need long term measures to deal with floods. Otherwise destruction is inevitable”
Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control department, Kashmir, Mir Javed Jaffar tells Saima Bhat that there is no way to handle September 2014 (floods)...
