Blood on Turf
The wait is not over yet. Nine years have passed since army’s ‘bad-boy’ Rambo killed four youngsters in broad daylight. Saqib Hussain Mugloo recounts...
Justice AK-47
Systemic paralysis during militancy’s amorphous years in 1990s saw the closure of formal courts, ‘encouraging’ people to throng mobile informal courts. Safwat Zargar revisits...
The half in Dark
A year after Parliament attack convict Azfal Guru was hanged inside Tihar, his widow Tabassum is living a hushed life. Devoting most of her...
Jail Chalo
As the crisis enters fourth month, arrests dominate the scene. Now cops move from door-to-door and get the ‘suspects’ to police station where they...
Raising cost of resistance
The state, it seems, can not run out of ideas. The police have suddenly become aware of its sealing powers, and is putting it...
Death Trap
As the army’s authority over the use and misuse of Tosamaidan meadow expired after five decades, the fascinating but tattered landscape is in sharp...
Tanveer Hussain
Tanveer Hussain, a 24 year old Kashmiri athlete may land in jail in the United States after he was indicted on charges of sexually...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
Kunan Victims Recount “The Ordeal”
At a seminar in Srinagar, various victims from Kunan spoke publicly of their ordeal and threw questions to the society, reports Bilal Handoo
"Our children...
Speedy Justice!
A consumer’s court offers solace to thousands of complainants seeking compensations from fraudster service providers in Kashmir. But the understaffed forum, after raising hopes,...
The Mother’s Struggle
Threatened by the government-backed gunmen to keep quiet, Bakhti Begum sold off her land to keep up the fight for her son who became...
Waiting For Justice
People heard the killer preside over the mourning but would talk in whispers till the judiciary took over. Papa Kishtwari, the erstwhile villain who...
Article 370: The Verdict
Four years after political parties and concerned citizens flocked to the Supreme Court challenging the reading down of Article 370, and the bifurcation of...
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...
With Grieving Gurus’
Temporarily inaccessible for law and order reasons, Sameer Yasir opted a crisscross trek to reach the tiny Mazbug, home of Afzal Guru to understand...
