Till Death
The J&K High Court ruling which upheld the ‘imprisonment for life’ sentence of the incarcerated separatist, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, has put the ball in...
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
Incarcerated for nearly 17 years in Delhi’s Tihar jail, two youth from Kashmir, who were falsely implicated for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat...
“We Struggled and God Helped Us”
Lawyer Shabir A Salaria is one of rare survivors of 1947 massacres who become J&K advocate general twice and even went to the parliament....
VALLEY OF TEARS
Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...
Chasing A Mirage
A group of Baramulla youth crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 to receive arms training. One of them was Tariq. After 22 years, Tariq...
The ‘Other Side’ of Romance
Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
Lost Faith
Ever since the conflict broke out in Kashmir valley, north Kashmir’s Palhalan village has been at the forefront of violence. Beneath a deceptive calm,...
‘Framed’, Incarcerated
Two Kashmiri youth recently returned home after spending 10 prime years of their lives behind bars. Convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh for...
The Kandahar Daand
Many years after the accused in the sensational hijacking of an Air India aircraft from Kathmandu in 1999 to Kandahar were convicted, the police...
The Orphanage Business
Kashmir orphans are a dispossessed lot. Some of them are slowly falling prey to a stressful life spent behind the closed walls of ramshackled...
Barter’s Fear Factor
Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...
The Chargesheet
The Pathribal faked encounter is a case of conspiracies and lose ends revealed by the investigators in the army’s and initial police narratives. It...
PARTISAN JUSTICE
The recent Supreme Court judgment on the Pathribal faked encounter case may take all such cases, involving armed forces personnel in crimes against civilians,...
Raising cost of resistance
The state, it seems, can not run out of ideas. The police have suddenly become aware of its sealing powers, and is putting it...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
