Mohammad Ismail Bhat
Mohammad Ismail Bhat
(1945 - October 5, 1994)
When Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) finally decided to fight 1987 elections as part of Muslim United Front (MUF), there were...
MUF’s Mind
After conceiving and creating Muslim United Front, turbulent nineties pushed ideologue Dr Ghulam Qadir Wani to the other Kashmir. Throughout his life, this brilliant...
Bomb Hunters
Historically, landmines have remained the lovely little things in fighters’ arsenals. In fact every conflict zone has its inventory of deaths and destruction that...
Firm of Liberty
As the situation crowded the jails across the state, not many could afford to arrange their court battles. It was then a legal firm...
Incandescent Incubator
Concerns mounted as militants stormed the EDI’s Pampore complex initiating a 48-hour long gun-battle that consumed five security men, a civilian and three militants....
Pulwama Periscope
Before the 50-hour long EDI siege would cost the security grid dearly, Pulwama was jumping to retain its No 1 rank among Kashmir’s districts. A...
A Daughter’s Fight
Fourteen years after a chemist from Rawalpora was taken by army and subjected to enforced disappearance, his daughter held his funeral-in-absentia. Fighting twists, turns,...
First Hostage Taking
During the amorphous years of militancy that coincided with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s ascend to first Muslim Home Minister of India, JKLF kidnapped his daughter,...
Kashmir’s Global Jihadists
Kokernag’s Ashraf Dar, the key Al-Qaeda operative whom an American drone killed in Waziristan, was not Kashmir’s first global warrior. The trend took off...
Fearlessly Foreign
In 15 years, the highway township of Chanderkot played host for hundreds of engineers from diverse nationalities. With the project being handed over to...
Man Behind the Mask
Only an investigation will reveal if the Bandipora shootout that killed Altaf Dar, J&K Police’s larger than life investigator, was a chase or a...
Surviving Robberies
In a way banking sector is a huge survival story in itself. There were countless robberies and scores of bankers had providential escapes. Shams...
Solid Sopore
It proved costly for Sopore to jump from being apple town to the rebel town. Inducing poverty and impacting public infrastructure, the image-shift decimated...
Frontier Woes
Caught in the crossfire between India and Pakistan the people of J&K living near IB and LoC are on a razor’s edge. Meha Dixit...
Memon Memories
As Yakub Memon’s hanging triggered a debate across India, various Kashmiris knowing Mumbai’s Tiger after 1993 refreshed their memories telling Bilal Handoo how Delhi...
