Shooting an unarmed protestor is a simple murder

I am deeply saddened to learn about the death of more than 8 youth in Kashmir in the past few weeks. I extend my heartfelt condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones due to the government staged terrorism. I don’t agree with the Chief Minister’s statement of calling it a ‘battle of ideas More

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Revoke AFSPA

The valley is again on boil, this time protesting the killings of innocent men. A worrying trend is that youth seem to be the prime target of “security forces”. Youth being at the forefront of most of the protests and demonstrations in the valley is becoming an easy target for these forces who leave More

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Shun differences

This refers to recent article by Uday Shanker. The writer seems to be a very intelligent person. Throughout his article it may appear he wants both India and Pakistan to shun their differences and move forward. It is quite clear that the writer wants Pakistan to bow down before India which surely is More

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Biased view

This refers to the article “Eve’s daughter breaks her silence” by Khurram Saba (GK July 1). T The author has tried to explore the plight of the women folk. While doing so, she has gone beyond the reality, relied more on imagination. The author has posed some hypothetical questions and answered them artistically More

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Insensitive Government

Human rights violations at the hands of so-called security forces is not a new phenomenon in Kashmir. Prime Minister’s promise of zero tolerance for human rights violations didn’t change the situation on ground. That was a cruel joke being played with Kashmiris. Today a sinister design seems to be in More

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Supporting killings

I am sure that while I am writing this out as a mark of protest against the killings of innocents the troops will have killed or at least injured some more innocents. And when it comes to getting Army back, they are notorious in the whole valley for the worst kinds of human rights violation. The unethical More

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