“There should have been a mention of the scathing unemployment rate in J&K, which is much higher than that of the country.” SRINAGAR โ The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi has sought restoration of abridged constitutional and democratic rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. While speaking…
โThe MoS also said that 98 civilians and 109 security forces personnel were also killed during the same period.โ SRINAGAR โ The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the parliament of India that in 541 militant incidents a total of 439 militants were killed while 98 civilians and 109 security forces personnel lost their…
The political parties are still not clear whether to contest elections without seeking restoration of special status and statehood. SRINAGAR โ When the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi met various political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir including former chief ministers and parliamentarians, in June this year, one of the issues discussed was to strengthen…
In this city of grief, I keep telling him that we should empathise with each other. But no, this old fox always points out faults in others. Streets arenโt the same anymore, so he thoughtโwatching footfall from his cobbler corner. That old bustle, as he remembers it, has long disappeared in the bludgeoning hush. Pretence,…
Last year saw a surge in LoC fireworks amid LAC standoff, keeping life on the cutting edge on tenterhooks. Before snow transiently silenced guns at the Line of Control (LoC), the belligerent nuke-loaded neighbours were at it again โ shelling over the bodies of Kashmiris. Last summer, the frontier fireworks were full of spark and…
Before New Delhiโs new land laws for Jammu and Kashmir would force local unionists to raise demographic change fears in the region, the abrogation of Article 370 had long set the stage for the landscape alteration. After losing its special constitutional positioning on 5 August 2019, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is fanatically…
Kashmir: Homeland and dispute. Even though people talk of it as paradise, it is everything else than a paradise for a resident. Kashmir. This one word inspires so many thoughts, brings forth so many things, images, that Iโm not sure where to start. For an Indian, itโs the crown and an integral part of the…
โI am a citizen of the world.โโย Sylvia Beach In a recent interview, I had put down โidentityโ as an intrinsic part of me, an identity that is devoid of law and religion or other statuses that have the power to affect my identity. I was asked to explain how my identity is bound to law;…
After New Delhiโs last summer step, the loyalist of Kashmirโs grand old party and its โtallest leaderโ felt disheartened, disappointed and deceived. More than a year back, as the valley woke up to the news of abrogation of Article 370, my grandfather Abdul Samad Dar took a routine walk in our sunny- cum-sullen lawn. With…