Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination...
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...
The Bride With A Bomb?
Yasmeena Akhter is claimed by Kashmir militants as a suicide bomber and a martyr. But was she? Basharat Peer pieces together the story of...
Documenting Migration
The eruption of militancy in 1990 created a situation that is difficult to even imagine now, thirty years down the road. The situation had...
Khundroo Ammo Depot: A constant torment
Live fuses, shells and landmines scattered in villages around Khundroo Ammunition Depot are haunting a population, who are losing lives and limbs to stray...
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
(1928-1996)
When Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru), who fought on MUF ticket from Kulgam, would attract huge crowds during canvassing: courtesy his brand...
‘The stand-off between India and Pakistan will have fall-out in Kashmir’
In a telephonic interview, the strategic affairs’ expert, author, and the editor of Force magazine Pravin Sawhney tells Saima Bhat Kashmir will remain on...
A Carnage Closure
As the troops are battling an elusive group of fugitives in dense Poonch forests for the third week, curtains fell on the Nadimarg massacre...
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...
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...
Pandit Protests
The killing of Rahul Bhatt triggered unending protests by Kashmiri Pandits who are serving the government across the Valley under a special package. Khalid...
De-Stinging AFSPA
Both the government and opposition are talking loud about the need to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and expressing helplessness to revoke...
Terror Square
Twenty six years after Handwara witnessed the first blood, two youth became the latest casualty, triggering a new chain of protests and killings in...
Al Qaeda’s Last Man?
It took counter-insurgency grid six years to trace Zakir Musa. But will his killing mark an end to the outfit he founded, asks Saima...
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...