Poonch Encounters
With counter-insurgency in Kashmir as the key focus, the tensions are rising in Poonch as the troops are readying for another harsh winter stay...
Fear, Insecurity
Civilians have remained the main collateral damage of the three decades of turmoil. Amid restoration of peace claims when a series of selective killings...
Fingers Crossed
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
What would...
The Kabul Spillover?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics,...
Dubious Encounters?
Two families assert their sons killed in encounters were not militants, reports Samreena Nazir
On July 25, at around 8 am Abdul Qayoom Dar, a...
Understanding Ceasefire
Not a single shot was fired anywhere on the LoC after the two armies implemented the ceasefire on February 26 night. The surprise development,...
Renewed Ceasefire
Surprising the strategic affairs community with its quiet diplomacy, rival armies of India and Pakistan announced a fresh ceasefire. The development was welcomed by...
Amshipora Redux?
Days after the sleuths completed investigations in the July 2020 fake encounter involving the killing of three Rajouri labourers, the killing of a teenage...
Machil Moorings
For most of Kashmir, Machil is a border sector where the rival armies shell each other’s positions. Mahmood Ahmad, who visited the belt in...
Gilgit Gambit
A year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was rolled back, the Chinese army is on the borders in Ladakh and Pakistan...
Tense Separatist Block
As the separatist camp has gone silent after the mass crackdown, there is an increasing number of militant casualties being reported in Kashmir. The...
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories in 2019, Beijing had...
Blood and Virus
After the mourners violated the social distancing norms in Sopore, security grid has silently started official burial of the slain militants in Kashmir to...
Bombs In Pandemic
The recurrence of the border shelling between the rival armies from Kupwara to Poonch at the peak of a pandemic does not augur well...
Davinder Details
Less than a fortnight after his arrest with top militants, new revelations suggest more than what Kashmir knows, reports Saima Bhat
As the federal investigator...
