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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.

Conviction of a Lonely Mother

Sad and lonely but proud Nabza has lost all her four sons to the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Majid Maqbool tracks the story of...

SENSING LIFE WITHOUT BUNKERS

Hussain Danish takes us around Srinagar to feel what life has been like in areas where some of security forces’ bunkers were removed recently....

What LoC!

Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...

WHO WANTS TO LIVE!

Suicide cases are on the rise in Kashmir with even teenagers as young as 14, attempting suicide. Ibrahim Wani reports on an issue that...

The Cursed Marriages

Weddings in Kashmir have been always held during nights but the rise of armed insurgency and some gruesome incidents forced a change in it....

High Way To Destruction

Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...

Caring For Less Privileged

Social service and philanthropy are necessary to take care of the less privileged in the society. With two decades of conflict leaving thousands of...

Home Coming

Two decades after the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, a combo offer of employment and rehabilitation by the state government beckons them to return....

Invisible hand

With its activism failing to get India and Pakistan anywhere near a solution, the US, through back channels, is pushing the two countries for...

Defence wants more

A hefty hike in defence budget this year, will send the forces shopping for latest weaponry and give it the financial room for modernization...

If Militancy Returns

Is Kashmir poised for a fresh cycle of militancy? Some sections would like us to believe so, some fear so. And if so, who...

Disfigured childhood

A 13 year old boy injured in the summer unrest can barely talk even after three months of hospitalisation and 12 surgeries. Walking on...

Summers of Unrest Challenging India

Not to take up arms again represents a major shift in tactics, and one to which political leaders both in Kashmir and in New...

Mission Al-Faraan

In the summer of 1995, a shadowy outfit abducted five Western tourists from Pahalgam. One killed, one escaped, and the fate of others remains shrouded in mystery since. Many credit the event for making a major shift in US policy on Kashmir. Maqbool Sahil narrates his rendezvous with the event.

Top catch

The government got the most sought after man, on whom it had placed a Rs 10 lakh bounty. Masrat Alam had evaded arrest for...