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Dr Farooq Abdullah with his wife Molly Abdullah. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur

Frozen Photos

With only BJP contesting the Block Development Council (BDC) polls, the politics of Jammu and Kashmir is frozen in time. Though the government indicated...

Blood In Hunger

After many years, the Muslim month of fasting did not witness any cessation of hostilities between militants and the security grid. This made the...

Al Qaeda’s Last Man?

It took counter-insurgency grid six years to trace Zakir Musa. But will his killing mark an end to the outfit he founded, asks Saima...

Highway Hiccups

The deadly Lethpora car-bomb attack has led the security grid to literally take over the highway, especially during the movement of military convoys. After...

Shelled Life

In the aftermath of the tensions between India and Pakistan, serious insecurity has overtaken the populations living near the Line of Control, Faheem Mir...

‘The stand-off between India and Pakistan will have fall-out in Kashmir’

In a telephonic interview, the strategic affairs’ expert, author, and the editor of Force magazine Pravin Sawhney tells Saima Bhat Kashmir will remain on...

War Memories

As the Line of Control became active and the warplanes started dominating the skies, Saima Bhat met the elders to understand how bad the...

‘You can’t get intelligence about what is inside the mind of a suicide bomber’

In the wake of Lethpora attack and the subsequent development, Saima Bhat interviewed A S Dulat, the former RAW Chief and one of the...

Highway Horror

When an explosives-laden car driven by a militant ambushed a convoy driving paramilitary men who were to resume their duties in Srinagar, 49 personnel...

Bawa Jitto and BSF

Everytime rival armies exchange shells, Kanachak moves to newspaper front pages. The region has fascinating stories that usually get buried under the debris of...

Accidental Militant?

One of the four militants whom police held responsible for the brutal assassination of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, Azad Ahmad Malik’s entry into militancy was...

Guns and Graves

Though 2018 was the deadliest year in a decade, and the new recruitments are down, Shams Irfan sees it premature to write an obituary...
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Slaying At Sirnoo

Seven civilians were killed after an encounter in Pulwama saw the killing of three militants and an army man in an apple orchard hideout....

Hot Pursuit

The gun battles have kept Kashmir on the edge as 600 militants stand killed since the fateful Bamdoora encounter in 2016. The battles have...

A Wailing Mother

Decision by a son to join militancy was the first blow to her motherhood. His funeral coincided with the detection of cancer in her....