Kashmiris Keeping Alive Their Struggle for Independence
Ishaal Zehra Indian occupied Kashmir has remained tensed for long now. The powerful surge of retaliation against Indian brutalities which began two years back has intensified this year. Death of Kashmiri civilians at the hands of Indian Military has become a routine in guise of counter-militancy operations in the valley. These counter-insurgency operations More...
Refocus on Afzal Guru and the Kashmir Movement
By Sajjad Shaukat Muhammad Afzal Guru was hero of the Kashmir movement, whom India secretly hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. It triggered protests in Kashmir and widespread More...
Kamran Yousuf a Journalist or Terrorist? Kashmir Photographer Is Jailed, Pending Answer
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar SRINAGAR, Kashmir — He is known as one of Kashmir’s gutsiest news photographers covering the intensifying hostility in his home region, and when violence broke out he was More...
The Myth of Indian Republic Day for Kashmir
Every year, 26th of January is being celebrated by India as the Indian Republic Day. But, the day is being observed by the Kahmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and all over the world, including their More...
Indian Violation of the UN Resolution Regarding Plebiscite in Kashmir
By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, January 5 is celebrated in remembrance of the pledges of the UNO; as on this very day in 1949, UNCIP (United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan) resolution was adopted in which More...
Kashmir conflict: Pellet injuries leave boys in India struggling to adapt to blindness
Story by Annie Gowen It was months before Faisal Ahmed Dar finally stepped back on the cricket field. He had been his team’s top batter. But Faisal, 16, was recovering from a pellet wound that robbed him More...
Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir ‘fed up’ with India’s human rights abuses
As the world observes the UN-sponsored Human Rights Day, rights violations continue to be a major issue in Indian Occupied Kashmir. Since 1989, nearly 70,000 people have been killed in violence that separatist More...
In Indian Occupied Kashmir, a father’s fight against forgetfulness
Tufail was killed on June 11, 2010, near a sports stadium in the old city of Srinagar in Indian-Occupied Kashmir By Rifat Fareed Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Mohammad Ashraf Mattoo was at home when More...
Senior Azad Kashmir figure calls for Turkish mediation
Speaker of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly asks Turkey to initiate dialogue between India, Pakistan By Kubra Chohan Shah Ghulam Qadir, the speaker of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative More...
ISIS asks Kashmiris to behead Indian troops
An article in Islamic State magazine ‘Rumiyah” asks Kashmiri Muslims to restart their fight “under the banner of Khilafah” and behead Indian and Pakistani troops who confront them. The article, More...