Parried Peacemakers
In the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan on the LoC, the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is unable...
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...
Cementing The Divide
As experts are flying to Srinagar with suggestions and ideas, the invisible LoC is expected to shed a shaky fence for a stronger, impregnable...
The ‘Other Side’ of Romance
Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
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...
RETURN OF THE NATIVE
Many of the around 3000 Kashmiri militants stranded on the other side of LoC are returning along with their wives and children. SYED ASMA...
The Fight Within
The fight between the officers and jawans at a strategic base near China border, police investigations reveal, was much more than – what the...
Records of Divide
Decolonisation of the Indian subcontinent was also accompanied by the redrawing of national boundaries. The phenomenon did not just change the course of history...
As He Witnessed History’s Grief
Passengers who rode the first trans-Kashmir bus service in nearly 60 years were Friday enjoying emotional family reunions, visiting ancestral homes and getting to know life on the “other side” of the divided state.
Reporting The Other Side
They are stationed high in the Himalayas to guard against the enemy, but with peace reigning on the Kashmir frontier Indian troops have one eye on Pakistani positions and another on their TVs.
LoC Travel: Seven Years After
Opening the Jhelum Valley Road (JVR) connecting Srinagar with Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani administered Kashmir (PaK) capital in April 2005 was a path-breaking initiative between...
Politics of rehabilitation
They have been returning home to Kashmir in small numbers quietly from the Pakistani side via Nepal, but a larger number may be waiting...
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...
Rehabilitation or Harassment?
Released or ex-militants have had to continue suffer harassment and indignity long after having endured physical torture during their detention by government forces. After...
What LoC!
Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...
