The Rival Games
Beheading soldiers and taking heads as war trophies is just one dimension of the macabre rivalries of the two armies manning Kashmir ‘frontiers’ since...
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...
Chasing A Mirage
A group of Baramulla youth crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 to receive arms training. One of them was Tariq. After 22 years, Tariq...
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...
‘Framed’, Incarcerated
Two Kashmiri youth recently returned home after spending 10 prime years of their lives behind bars. Convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh for...
CONDEMNED INNOCENCE
For all these years, students, businessmen and travellers from Kashmir were routinely arrested in Delhi and elsewhere, shown on TV, given a bad name...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
A Chilling ‘Voice’
The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...
War Of Deception
In the murky spy wars, Kashmir witnesses a major switch over by police moles into militant ranks since the police took over counter-insurgency in...
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...
In crosshairs
No police chief has finished his innings in J&K in such a controversy as Kuldeep Khuda, one of the longest serving DGPs of the...
STONES AND SILENCE
They are the accused stone-pelters. Their trials in the district courts have lingered on while they wait for others, who are facing PSA, to...
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...
A Village Remembers
Fourteen years have gone by since Ahagam was almost totally razed down during a gun battle between the army and militants, but scares of...
The Conflict Reporter’s Deeper Look
In Indian Kashmir, YouTube generation defines new struggle
By Izhar Wani
SRINAGAR, July 23, 2010 (AFP) - For six weeks, in scenes reminiscent of Palestinian intifadas,...
