Over to Professor
After he was barred from teaching in 1986, the disgruntled Prof Abdul Gani Bhat began lecturing on politics in a series of covert residential...
Noori 2.0
After seen being cradled by Omar Abdullah in March 2012, the cloned Pashmina goat Noori went out of sight instantly. Four years later, Noori...
Teacher Motivation: A Key To Overhauling Education System
By Yasir Wani
The movement of renovating the education system has gained pace with innovative circulars from the directorate office. Intermittently, something new is coming...
Battleground Amira Kadal
Being central to Kashmir and to the governance structure, Amira Kadal was always in limelight. That is perhaps why all the anti-NC forces joined...
The Big Jama’at
Had Jama’at-e-Islami not offered its resource base and the vast organizational skeleton, MUF might not had been as important as it eventually proved, reveals...
D-Day: March 23, 1987
Muslim United Front had worked more on road-shows using the raw emotion of people and not on the process of elections. This contributed to...
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
Crisis Manager!
He literally kept Jama’at-e-Islami alive after its entire leadership was jailed post-1987 state assembly results. Mohammad Raafi talks to Mohammad Ashraf Khan to know...
Assassinated
After a new situation took over Kashmir within a year after the March 1987 elections, many players from the unionist camp were killed in...
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
(May 27, 1945 – August 13, 1996)
A Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) worker since he was 15 years old, Mohammad Sultan Bhat had contested assembly elections...
Dateline 1987
What happened on March 23, 1987 in Kashmir is even missing from newspaper archives. Shakir Mir painstakingly swifts through whatever material is available to...
Rigging, Where?
For the last more than two decades, almost everybody is accusing National Conference of resorting to rigging to retain power. Riyaz Ul Khaliq talks...
Briefing
MUF Gains
MUF had contested 40 segments, all in Kashmir. It won Islamabad (Mohammad Sayeed Shah), Kulgam (Abdul Razak Mir), Homshalibugh (Ghulam Nabi Sumji) and...
Letter From The Editor
With your support, we have completed seven years of uninterrupted publication. We have maintained the tradition of dedicating the anniversary issue to a theme...
MUFfed
The rise of Muslim United Front (MUF) at the peak of a disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar led to unprecedented participation in the 1987...
