A Chilling ‘Voice’
The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...
Unpunishable By Law
It is a case where established murderers-men in uniform-of five innocent civilians of Islamabad area has remained un-punishable because of AFSPA, a law that...
Kashmiri Teen’s Trauma Exposes Flawed Indian Justice
SRINAGAR, India, March 8, 2012 (AFP) – Syed Maqbool Shah, an aspiring teacher from Kashmir aged 17, was visiting his brother in New Delhi in June 1996 when police wrongly accused him of taking part in a bombing.
INNOCENT BUT PUNISHED
It is not unique in the slow Indian justice delivery system, but its magnitude for some Kashmiris is. Before courts acquitted them many have...
Life of A Massacre
A massacre can perpetuate trauma in memory. The scars of Chittisinghpora will never vanish, but 12 years after 35 Sikhs were brutally gunned down...
The lone survivor: Nanak Singh
Bodies of victims killed in Chattisighpora massacre - Image courtesy: Sikh Siyasat
I was 46 years old in 2000. I was a government employee in...
The Pathribal Aftermath
Pathribal was a part of three successive and related killings which claimed 50 lives between March 20 and April 3, 2000. On March 20,...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
SPECTRE AND IMPUNITY
Every time a fresh debate surrounding removal of AFSPA is energised, the army raises a spectre to oppose it. Past all other arguments, the...
Twenty Years After
Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...
‘Framed’ By Paying Guest
A medical student from Kishtwar studying in Bangladesh, Wasim is suspected of involvement in the Delhi High Court blast. He and his family have...
Indifference, Anger And Hope
Away from the ruckus in the state assembly and competing nationalistic politics around the discourse of clemency to Afzal Guru, his home in a...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
Lonely battle
A family that lost its only child last June is fighting to bring the killers to justice even after alleged threats and attempts to...
Take off blocked
A young Kashmiri aeronautical engineer was arrested and charged with waging war against the state. Five years later the court found him innocent and...
