Articles

(Daily Sabah) Ghulam Nabi Fai  If promises are made to be broken, then Kashmir may be summoned to prove the treacherous proposition. Broken promises haunt Kashmir’s history and explain its tragedy. I will confine myself to the last century as a concession to the shortness of life. Under the 1846 …

(Time) Billy Perrigo The Sanatan Sanstha’s extended presence on Facebook—despite being banned from the platform—raises questions about how effectively the company is delivering on its commitment to root out hate speech and incitement to violence, including in its largest market, India. Facebook allowed a Hindu extremist group to operate openly …

(The Kashmir Wala) Shefali Rafiq The deserted streets in Srinagar, currently under a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, brings back the memories of the August 2019 clampdown for Junaid Firdous Naqash, a 32-year-old tent supplier. Naqash, a third generation businessman in his family, said that the peak marriage …

(The Kashmir Wala) Zenaira Bakhsh Weeks before Eid in May, surgeon Owais Makhdoomi received a distress call from his sister Mursaleen Asim, who was pregnant with her first child. She had developed symptoms of the Covid-19 disease and was worried for her unborn baby. Asim’s pregnancy had elated the entire …

Humayun Aziz Sandeela At a time when Narendra Modi came into power in 2014, India had been treading the path of being one of the economic powerhouses and an attractive partner for the western alliance. However, today, the “Shining India” slogans once used as a publicity stunt by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, …

(The News International) Shireen Mazari Within one month two stories of illegal possession and sale of uranium being caught by Indian police have surfaced. Of course, any attempt to smuggle radioactive material must be a cause for concern and Pakistan should report these to the IAEA and question why these …

(The Fuller Project) Shaheena Jan walks along a rough road from her home to reach the main street that leads to the hospital, where she is working as a part-time sweeper in a government hospital in Shangus, Anantnag in South Kashmir. With no public transport available due to the lockdown …

(The Dispatch) Five-year-old Mir Adda chose a ‘Barbie dress’, wore a crown and was excitedly calling for family to cut her brother’s birthday cake, minutes before a leopard took her away from the lawn of her house in the city’s outskirts, in a tragic case underlining human-animal conflict because of …

(Early Times) On March 23 when experts warned of a second Covid-19 wave, the authorities in Jammu and Kashmir asked people to visit Tulip Garden in Srinagar. On March 25 when the Tulip Garden was thrown open, Kashmir registered 131 cases and the active cases at that time were around …

Islamabad, June 08 (KMS): The history of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is littered with several carnages, including of Chota Bazaar that tells a horrendous story of violence carried out by the Indian forces with impunity. Thirty years on, the memories of Chota Bazaar massacre still haunt the …