‘Pathogen’ Solution to Garlic Scare
An otherwise antibiotic and antioxidant, Garlic coming through the trans-LoC trade has become a headache for the government of India. R S Gull reports...
Bombs In Pandemic
The recurrence of the border shelling between the rival armies from Kupwara to Poonch at the peak of a pandemic does not augur well...
MESS OF A TRADE
Ten months after Prime Minister Singh promised to make trans-LoC trade ‘more viable and hassle-free’, President Zardari termed it a ‘pioneering CBM’ on Kashmir....
Gilgit Games
Perhaps for the first time after partition, Kashmir dispute is emerging as a major issue for Pakistan. Beijing is seeking guarantees for making substantial...
Women In Power
The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding around 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when...
GRIDLOCKED
Despite the hype and promise of trade flourishing on both sides of the Line of Control, the reality is far from ideal. Shams Irfan...
War, Is It?
Almost three months and scores of international squabbling matches after, Delhi and Islamabad are inching toward a confrontation to satisfy their national egos. But...
Barter’s Fear Factor
Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...
“Being a border area, there is a deep network of Intelligence agencies including IB,...
A Humanities graduate from Punjab University, Deldan Namgail (38) was Sarpanch before becoming a Lawmaker from Nubra. During his college days, he headed the Ladakh...
Home Calling!
As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...
Zaiba’s Homecoming
A Pakistani travel reporter Danial Shah and an Indian photographer Mithila Jariwala teamed up to report Zaiba’s homecoming to Turtuk after nearly half a...
‘Foreigner’ Returns
At 11, poverty forced him to flee home and a theft landed him in Lahore. Since then more than sixty years eclipsed. As the...
Survival Tales
Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
Barter Bottlenecks
Amid reports that NIA wants barter trade at the LoC to close down, a huge cache of contraband was recovered from a PaK truck...
Trading Nightmares
Recent onion crisis briefly brought LoC trade back into focus when truckloads of onions reached Kashmir markets and eased soaring prices. But ban and...
