Indifference, Anger And Hope
Away from the ruckus in the state assembly and competing nationalistic politics around the discourse of clemency to Afzal Guru, his home in a...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
Lonely battle
A family that lost its only child last June is fighting to bring the killers to justice even after alleged threats and attempts to...
Take off blocked
A young Kashmiri aeronautical engineer was arrested and charged with waging war against the state. Five years later the court found him innocent and...
Immune and offensive
Enjoying the immunity granted to its men under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the army has consistently sidelined the courts in J&K, yet in...
Living Torture
The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...
Justice interrupted
Judiciary has been defunct for more than three months as lawyers across Kashmir have gone on strike against the jailing of their colleagues. Ikhlaq...
Ineffective Inquest
As a commission of Inquiry gets ready to probe the 17 cases of civilian killings since June 11, Kashmir Life takes a look at...
Norm of abberations
It may be a minor error of judgement for the man with his hand on trigger, but for those on the receiving end, it...
Pronounced misery
After 14 years of suffering, a Delhi court verdict in Lajpat Nagpar blast case has brought respite to a few Kashmiri families, and aggravated...
Jailed and honoured
Iftikhar Geelani’s detention and release from jail is a melodrama that he narrated in a book My Days In Prison. Penguin India published the...
Shopain to CBI
Investigators are busy preparing the Shopian rape and murder case to be handed over to CBI after green signal from the High Court. Haroon...
Denial of rights
Freedom of speech and expression may be a constitutional guarantee, but JK government deals protesters with an iron fist, rendering the guarantee
‘Judiciary needs scrutiny’
There is more to it than meets the eye. Ashok Agrwaal, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer who authored the SAFHR’s report on writ of...
