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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.

A Poetic Struggle

From loudly singing elegies of rebels to holding afternoon poetic sessions with detained in the interrogation centre, Madhosh Balhami has seen a lot in...

Spy Statements

A journalist had a series of joint interviews with A S Dulat, former RAW chief and Assad Durrani, who headed ISI in 1990, and...

Major Embarrassment

As Kashmir felt vindicated that the counter-insurgency grid has been using civilians as human shields and sought action, Major Leetul Gogoi was celebrated as...

Last 40 Hours

Nobody knows exactly, the details of Dr Rafi’s last forty hours, till he was located besieged in a Shopian village, alongside top Hizb rebels....

Ceasefire In Retrospect

As the political parties in the state are readying to approach the centre for a ceasefire to prevent mass recruitment of youth in militancy,...

Lonely Battles

Every time a militant falls, thousands of people join the funeral prayers. Once he is lowered into the grave, the story ends. In order...

Ek Tha Tiger

In a fierce gun-battle between militants and the army, Hizb ul Muahideen lost a major face in south Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar visited the baker’s...

Khudwani Encounter

All the militants escaped but the gun battle left behind razed homes and painful memories. Saqib Mir spent a day with the residents in...

That Bloody Sunday

As Shopian killings paralysed Kashmir for almost a week, yet again, Umar Mukhtar spent crisis-time down south in locating and meeting the families of...

Dateline SMHS

With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of injuries, offer a distinctly...

Understanding Stake-holding

It is very difficult to decipher why there are lot many political parties in Kashmir. But it is quite easy to link the proliferation...

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...

The Dual Rule

As the residents from villages straddling the LoC moved for shelter in Uri, they had tons of tragedies and tales to talk about when...

Sabzar Enigma

A bookish man who stayed away from tensions, was frightened by tear-smoke shells, spent eight years in studying; far away from his picturesque home...

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...