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Thursday, May 2, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

‘PAGD Hasn’t Done Anything Great Till Now’

PDPs Rajya Sabha member Mir Mohammad Fayaz tells Yawar Hussain KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Aspersions have been raised on the sincerity of the Peoples’ Alliance for...

‘Elections No Alternative To Self-determination’

In his well-known steadfast style Syed Ali Shah Geelani called for boycotting the forthcoming municipal elections, describing it as a weapon for the freedom...

‘Lockdowns Will Not Block Covid-19 Transmission Completely’

Acclaimed scientist, Prof Mohammad Sultan Khuroo’s significant contribution include the discovery of Hepatitis-E virus in 1978 from Kashmir when 1700 of an estimated 52000...

‘Of Course, We Will Fight Assembly Elections’

PDP General Secretary, Dr Mehboob Beg tells Yawar Hussain that his party and president are the chief targets of the ongoing “onslaught” KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Is PDP (Peoples...
Shahbaz Rajourvi

Panchal Never Felt Disconnected From Kashmir

Noted poet and scholar from Rajouri, Shahbaz Rajourvi, talks to Shams Irfan about his recent book Pounpir Gath, a collection of poems in Kashmiri,...

“Instead of reporting to the Chief Minister, certain PDP ministers report to their RSS...

Termed king-slayer after he defeated Dr Farooq Abdullah, Tariq Hameed Karra resigned PDP at the peak of 2016 unrest. After a two quarter pause,...

‘We Are On The Brinks of Community Transmission’

Pulmonologist Dr Naveed Nazir Shah, as head of the Chest Diseases Hospital, is managing the main counter Covid-19 hospital in Kashmir. He tells Khalid...

‘All Major Political Parties in India, Congress Included, Voted for Abrogation of Art 370’

After Congress rebel Ghulam Nabi Azad floated his Democratic Azad Party (DAP), Apni Party founder Syed Altaf Bukhari says he lacks any differences with...

“There is a strange emotional attachment and an unexplainable affinity between Kashmiris and Pakistanis.”

Nadia Mehr, who became first Pakistani girl to earn a doctorate from Kashmir, tells Rahiba R Parveen  that staying in conflict torn Kashmir was...

“Daily-wagers case was a social crisis”

Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu explains the compelling factors that led him to regularize the services of tens of thousands of daily wagers and...

‘What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger’

A Specialty Registrar Doctor in Psychiatry in the hospitals of Oxford Deanery, Dr Shah Tarfarosh is an Oxford University post-graduate with an impressive track...

‘Cancer Continues To Be the Biggest Challenge For Science’

Biochemist Dr Arsheed A Ganaie has worked on Tuberculosis, prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer during his research within and outside India. At Watson and Crick...

Challenging the stereotype

Gulshan Akhtar, is one of the two female SHO’s in Kashmir and heads Srinagar’s only women’s police station at Rambagh. She talks to Aliya...

“I always say that Jammu should be considered from Lakhanpur, Poonch and up to...

Minister CAPD Choudhary Zulfikar Ali who represents Darhal in state legislative assembly tells Saima Bhat that Jammu is developed at the cost of Pir...
Justice Hasnain Masoodi

‘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...