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...
SPECTRE AND IMPUNITY
Every time a fresh debate surrounding removal of AFSPA is energised, the army raises a spectre to oppose it. Past all other arguments, the...
Sand Diggers
On a pleasant September morning, Mohammad Sidiq, a sand-digger in his early 30s, pushes his long wooden boat out onto the River Jhelum, which...
Snatched Livelihood
Almost ten years after the army laid a siege around a cluster of villages in Drugmulla and occupied their paddy fields, the villagers are...
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...
Lethal Residue
The leftover explosives at encounters and army’s shooting practice sites are claiming lives, mostly of children and poor scrap collectors. A labourer at Islamabad...
Dummy parade
More than nine months after the killing of teenager Tufail Matoo, the policeman who fired the shell that killed him is yet to be...
If Militancy Returns
Is Kashmir poised for a fresh cycle of militancy? Some sections would like us to believe so, some fear so. And if so, who...
Decades of indifference
More than 100 families purchased residential plots from J&K housing board in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, however, the plots were occupied by army...
Immune and offensive
Enjoying the immunity granted to its men under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the army has consistently sidelined the courts in J&K, yet in...
Just an FIR
Teengar Tufail Matoo was killed after being hit by a police teargas shell, triggering a cycle of protest and killings in Kashmir. Tufail’s family had to struggle hard, just to lodge an FIR. Aliya Bashir reports.
Non-existent bonds
A US intelligence analysis group Stratfor has pooh-poohed the accusations of links between Kashmiri separatists and Maoist of central and eastern India leveled by...
Curfewed Marriages
Big fat Kashmiri weddings have become austere this season, thanks to long curfews and shutdowns, but the simple ceremonies have much bigger hassles in...
Enemy territory
People of Palhallan have been incarcerated in their homes without electricity and access to healthcare, nor are they allowed to harvest paddy or pick...
A law of lawlessness
With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.
