Ominous Trends?
Between the three gun-battles that dominated Kashmir last week, there were interactions between two parents and their about-to-be-killed militant sons. The conversations offers an...
Fault-line Kashmir
That the militancy in Kashmir is a monolith was always questioned by security experts. Now when black flags have started unfurling in parts of...
Smouldering Shopian
The smallest district in J&K but one of the most prosperous ones, Shopian has gone twice into mass mournings this year. After the six...
Scholar with a gun
When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...
Sunjwan Strike
As the rattling guns broke the early morning slumber inside the sprawling Sunjwan garrison in Jammu on February 10, the action and reaction lasted...
Shot In Shopian
A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...
Militant friends in Ikhwan Town
Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent days in the belt...
Rebel Cops?
Occasionally, some of the young men recruited by various uniformed services in Kashmir desert and join the rebels. Though a proper investigation by their...
Revisit Surrendered
As mother’s emotional plea and father’s cardiac attack brought footballer turned ‘militant’ back home, all of a sudden seeking and accepting surrender became the...
Horror Hills
Exposed directly to the extremity of conflict, Kashmir’s serious distressed border belts will take a long time to become normal. More than shells and...
Shell Shocked
It has been a decade since the ordinance depots a Khundru went up in flames sending explosive projectiles to every place, in orchards, fields,...
Shadow Boxing?
Six killings in three incidents in Shopian suggest a clear shift that renewed militancy is affecting on ground, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
“All three militants have...
A Missing Manzoor
Two young men visited a border outpost to register their movement but did not come out. After massive protests, one was recovered almost half...
Between Two Deaths
When the counter-insurgency grid finally confirmed that the salt-and-pepper man slain in a dusky Shopian village was Yasin Itoo, they knew it was extra-ordinary....
Close Encounters
News of death and destruction are apparently the only two by-products of a gun battle between rebels and the army. One encounter paves way...
