Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
Silent Disquiet?
The lockdown, now into the fourth week, offers no idea about when Kashmir will return to routine
Almost three weeks after the parliament unilaterally withdrew...
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...
Match-Makers Mobile
With the drop gates preventing the movement on roads and cell phones blocked, the Kashmir lockdown hit the basic institution of life. Umar Khurshid...
That Televised War
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s...
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...
Last Journey
Feroz Ahmad Ahanger, a truck driver by profession was on his way home from New Delhi after shopping for his marriage when militants struck...
Caught In Between?
Coinciding with the 50 days of lockdown, the Kashmir story migrated to America along with the Prime Ministers’ of India and Pakistan. Though the...
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...
Op Gibraltar
Half a century eclipsed since Pakistani dictator Ayub Khan pushed regulars disguised as Mujahedeen behind enemy lines into Kashmir thinking it would fetch him...
The Karakoram Trade
With Chinese troops ‘occupying’ a part of eastern Ladakh for more than a fortnight now, it is the ‘unofficial’ trade between people at the...
War Woes
TV suggests that India and Pakistan stand on brink of another war. Even Kashmir is thick with battle talk. War means disaster. Bilal Handoo...
Enforced Break-Ups
The conflict continues breaking families and adding to the destitute population. Muhammad Younis meets three widows and their children who lost their main support...
Inheriting Language of Turbulence
August 2011 marks the beginning of 24th year of the militancy in Kashmir, a phenomenon that did not only devour a generation in its...
The 2009 Failure
Amid the roars of guns at the LoC, when Nawaz Sharief wished seeking Obama’s help on Kashmir, it angered many people from Delhi to...
