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What LoC!

Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...

Lethal Residue

The leftover explosives at encounters and army’s shooting practice sites are claiming lives, mostly of children and poor scrap collectors. A labourer at Islamabad...

Dummy parade

More than nine months after the killing of teenager Tufail Matoo, the policeman who fired the shell that killed him is yet to be...

If Militancy Returns

Is Kashmir poised for a fresh cycle of militancy? Some sections would like us to believe so, some fear so. And if so, who...

Decades of indifference

More than 100 families purchased residential plots from J&K housing board in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, however,  the plots were occupied by army...

Immune and offensive

Enjoying the immunity granted to its men under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the army has consistently sidelined the courts in J&K, yet in...

Just an FIR

Teengar Tufail Matoo was killed after being hit by a police teargas shell, triggering a cycle of protest and killings in Kashmir. Tufail’s family had to struggle hard, just to lodge an FIR. Aliya Bashir reports. 

Non-existent bonds

A US intelligence analysis group Stratfor has pooh-poohed the accusations of links between Kashmiri separatists and Maoist of central and eastern India leveled by...

Curfewed Marriages

Big fat Kashmiri weddings have become austere this season, thanks to long curfews and shutdowns, but the simple ceremonies have much bigger hassles in...

Enemy territory

People of Palhallan have been incarcerated in their homes without electricity and access to healthcare, nor are they allowed to harvest paddy or pick...

A law of lawlessness

With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.

Caught in the showdown

A series of shutdowns and curfews has put the state in a strange logjam, with an escape nowhere in sight. Khursheed Wani reports. In many...

Interrupted childhood disrupted future

Youngsters are becoming a major causality in street protests in Kashmir. Apart from the bullets and batons, a number of children are now facing...

Witnessing murder

An otherwise calm colony of Islamabad town, Anchidora, witnessed horror on June 29, when three youth were killed in cold blood, in the compound...

Delhi directives

Situation in Kashmir forced a high level meeting in Delhi chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, which discussed a strategy to contain Kashmir unrest....