Everytime rival armies exchange shells, Kanachak moves to newspaper front pages. The region has fascinating stories that usually get buried…
One of the four militants whom police held responsible for the brutal assassination of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, Azad Ahmad Malik’s…
Though 2018 was the deadliest year in a decade, and the new recruitments are down, Shams Irfan sees it premature…
Seven civilians were killed after an encounter in Pulwama saw the killing of three militants and an army man in…
Decision by a son to join militancy was the first blow to her motherhood. His funeral coincided with the detection…
Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016 summer was the key factor in converting a scholar into a militant. Tral teenager used…
Not far away from Khundroo, Kashmir’s major Ordnance Depot, a village hillock is the site where the expired ordnance is…
A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later…
In Last 30 years, Kashmir witnessed killings of thousands of militants, some of them trained by veterans in Afghanistan. But…
Dramatic turns and twists at ground zero have squeezed the space for middle-rung workers of unionist political parties, forcing police…
Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family…
Between the three gun-battles that dominated Kashmir last week, there were interactions between two parents and their about-to-be-killed militant sons.…
That the militancy in Kashmir is a monolith was always questioned by security experts. Now when black flags have started…
As the rattling guns broke the early morning slumber inside the sprawling Sunjwan garrison in Jammu on February 10, the…
Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent…