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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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Conflict

For the last many decades, the prevailing conflict impacts every aspect of life in Jammu and Kashmir. This section is the listing of detailed copies that otherwise fall in politics, civil liberty, diplomacy, policy making and other spheres of life.

On The Edge

Events starting with the execution of Afzal Guru have led Kashmir to a situation in which it is either a call for a protest...
Silence of graveyard: Lal Chowk wears a deserted look after seperatists called for shutdown against hanging of Afzal Guru -- Photo: Bilal Bahadur

Afzal Guru A Posthumous Probe?

As a deceptive normalcy returns to Kashmir amid separatist-sponsored strikes and government imposed curfews, a lot of reportage is emerging on Afzal Guru case...

Pushed To The Wall

In various cities and towns across India, Kashmiris are prone to face harassment and societal exclusion. These dangers became visible recently when various groups...
The para-military forces had placed concertina wires on the road leading to the village of Afzal Guru in Sopore --Photo: Abid Nabi

With Grieving Gurus’

Temporarily inaccessible for law and order reasons, Sameer Yasir opted a crisscross trek to reach the tiny Mazbug, home of Afzal Guru to understand...

Kashmir’s Own 9/11

As unionists and pro-freedom leaders have come together to echo fears of political radicalisation among the youth, there is little doubt that the decision...

A Jail Story

Knowing that he was going to meet his creator very soon, Afzal had resigned to fate and turned to religion inside Tihar jail. As...

Knots of the NOOSE

Afzal Guru dropped out of medical college, crossed LoC, returned and surrendered. His protracted struggle to survive without becoming a surrogate soldier or a...
Illustration by : Abdul Basit

The Addiction Menace

To escape from the fostering stress and trauma, many people caught in a whirlpool of violence in Kashmir over the last two decades found...
Abdul Rashid Deeder examines the damages caused by Pakistani shell to his house -- Photo: Abid Nabi

In Times of Peace

As India and Pakistan trade barbs over the brutalization of their soldiers in renewed hostilities on LoC, Sameer Yasir treks to the non-descript Charunda...
Parried Peacemakers

Parried Peacemakers

In the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan on the LoC, the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is unable...

Rape: A LARGER REALITY

R S GULL Ever since the victim of a beastly gangrape in Delhi aroused concerns of the middle class, almost every body is trying to...
A woman cries as she hugs her brother after his surrender in Rampur

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...
Cover Story: LOST IN TRANSLATION

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Ever since the birth of Kashmir conflict, the leadership cutting across ideological divides have traditionally embarked on ambitious dispute- resolution trips to Islamabad. As...
cover story THe Daughter

The Daughter

Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Troopers patrolling the Loc -- Photo: Bilal Bahadur

Cementing The Divide

As experts are flying to Srinagar with suggestions and ideas, the invisible LoC is expected to shed a shaky fence for a stronger, impregnable...