In Kashmir Police Officer Joined Pro Independence Arm Struggle
The Special Police Officer (SPO), who decamped with seven AK rifles and a pistol from the residence of a PDP MLA in Srinagar, has joined Hizbul Mujahideen. In a picture that has gone viral, SPO Adil Bashir is seen posing with two AK rifles with four other Hizb militants, including top commander Zeenat-ul-Islam. Seven AK rifles are also on display in More...
How the killing of a betrothed Kashmiri man shattered many lives – The #Indian armed forces shot dead a 30-year-old groom-to-be in southern #Kashmir in early April this year. Four months later, a Kashmiri photographer visits his mother and fiancé.
Sanna Irshad Mattoo As per local accounts, the Indian armed forces shot dead a 30-year-old groom-to-be in southern Kashmir in early April this year. Four months later, a Kashmiri photographer visits More...
‘In Kashmir, law and order swallows human rights’
I asked Mehbooba to resign after 2016 uprising: Nayeema Didn’t see any seriousness in PDP on self-rule agenda I should’ve quitted PDP when it entered into an unholy alliance with BJP Betraying own people in More...
In Kashmir, Indian Forces Security Searches Lead to Sexual Abuse
India’s renewed Cordon and Search Operations are proving a nightmare for Kashmir’s women. By Qadri Inzamam Zareena (name changed on request) remembers every detail of that evening: “There was a commotion outside. More...
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 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...