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Security

Right now, people are migrating from Keran to safer parts of North Kashmir

Hailing from a political family, Panthers Party MLC Rafiq Shah made forays in politics early in his life. Known for being outspoken in the...

The YES Men

The TSD exposé suggested two NGOs were the beneficiaries of the massive funds till General V K Singh’s super-intelligence structure was disbanded. Suhail Ansari...

Leepa Lamp Post

As Hilal Ahmad went visiting a Leepa Valley shrine wrested from Pakistan in 1971, he found two specific regiments of rival armies facing each...

Chenab Divides

Recent communal clashes in Kishtwar have brought VDCs back into focus. While Muslims question their relevance in militancy free Chenab valley, Hindus feel they...

Who Is Killing Them?

One of the foremost features of Kashmir’s strife is that tens of thousands of people, men, women and youth, started moving out of their...

A New Security Regime

Sixty six years after her independence, India is shifting from its federal structure by using a ‘security route’ to encroach upon the autonomy enjoyed...

Billing Move!

Proposed controversial police Bill 2013 that seeks enormous powers for the over 100 thousand strong force has already set a raging debate across the...
Soldiers patrolling near LoC Fence

An Imaginary Divide?

Line of Control has historically been a cartographic imagination. But the fence that emerged around the divide in the last few years has started...
Widow of Hemraj Singh mourning the brutal slaying of her husband

The Rival Games

Beheading soldiers and taking heads as war trophies is just one dimension of the macabre rivalries of the two armies manning Kashmir ‘frontiers’ since...
A woman cries as she hugs her brother after his surrender in Rampur

Survival Tales

Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
A squad of Former Militants from Baramulla-Photo:Sameer Yasir

Chasing A Mirage

A group of Baramulla youth crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 to receive arms training. One of them was Tariq. After 22 years, Tariq...
Return of the Prodigal

The ‘Other Side’ of Romance

Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
Muhammad Yusuf Mir with his kin

‘Framed’, Incarcerated

Two Kashmiri youth recently returned home after spending 10 prime years of their lives behind bars. Convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh for...

CONDEMNED INNOCENCE

For all these years, students, businessmen and travellers from Kashmir were routinely arrested in Delhi and elsewhere, shown on TV, given a bad name...
Avtar Singh asli

Killer’s last decade

Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...