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Muzaffarabad

Syed Shujaat Bukhari
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.

Muzaffarabad

by Syed Shujaat Bukhari Located at a distance of 180 kilometres from both Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu...

Japan

Sameer Yasir                             Outside the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, the rain drops falling on the gigantic statute of Buddha...

Islamabad

by Syed Shujaat Bukhari For a moment I thought we have landed in different city as the “new look” of Islamabad, the capital city of...

Malaysia

Qazi Mamoon Ashraf: It is time for lunch. It is time to leave all the (fake) studying and hop into the canteen, look around...

Seoul

Dr Upendra KaulFor an interventional Cardiologist like me, Seoul-the capital city of South Korea is a Mecca. A number of surgical procedures have been...

Crimson town

Saffron brought fame and prosperity to Pampore but a decline in production and rogue traders selling adulterated and fake saffron has hit the growers...

Creamy affluence

Raise in milk production has brought in prosperity for some villages in Pulwama giving their children access to education and a better life. Mir...

Peaceful Kandahar

A Kandahar without gunfire, troop presence, killings and Pushtu seems like a dream. Shafath Hussain tours the Kandahar, where tranquility and hospitality awaits every...

Wedded to wood

Lolab, literally the waters of love, is one of the most beautiful places in Kashmir inhabited by beautiful, hardworking people mired in tradition and...

London

Amina RawatIn 2005, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the blanket ban on prisoners voting, imposed in 1870, was an...

Ahmedabad

Athar Parvaiz If Delhi Metro has eased off traffic travails of Delhiites and has revolutionised the mobility in the city, BRTS (Bus Rapid Transit...

Mini Kashmir

Centuries ago they migrated to escape bonded labour or persecution, their language is Kashmiri’s only other dialect and their hearts beat for their brethren...

London

Amina RawatPrior to the election of the current coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, the leader of the latter...

Thailand

Qazi MamoonIt was a little past 3 in the afternoon when our plane landed at the Suvarnabumi International Airport in Bangkok. I had left...