Tag: Peace Brigade


  • After Akbarโ€™s invading army faced an โ€˜oppressedโ€™ hatredโ€”โ€œPogi moghulโ€โ€”for being the first alien arm-twisters in the valley, the koshur slang only progressed with political shades and slurs throughout its โ€œNaya Kashmirโ€ resurgent phases.ย  As the two political pals rose to address the monarchy-liberated masses in Kashmirโ€™s Red Square in the late forties, the celebrated Persian…

  • Although they never fought on the frontlines, the forgotten women militia remains a standalone event in Kashmir history in which women took to streets and equipped themselves with arms, and trained themselves thereof. Seventy-three years ago, the tribesmen of North-Western Frontier of Pakistan marched into Kashmir, steadily journeying eastwards in the interest of โ€œfreeing Kashmirโ€…