We need a way out
KASHMIR AT A CROSSROADS
All these weeks we have experienced an agony. Innocents have been killed and there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel, comments Javaid Malik
Kashmir has been on the boil for the past six weeks. Kashmiris have been witnessing killings, strikes and curfews and there seems to be no end to it. It seems this time Kashmiris have decided that it is now or never for them. The common perception that seems to prevail among the masses is that let More
The song is dead--aroma stays
TRIBUTE
Manzoor Fazili pays tribute to Ahad Bab
Rational religion has two basic ingredients according to George Santanya. One is piety or loyalty to necessary conditions and secondly devotion to ideal ends which means attainment of spirituality. Bab abandoned his family life, detached himself from mundane life and excelled in piety, drank at its More
Hopes Shattered
KASHMIR
How painful is it to see that a father shoulders the coffin of his son, writes Sajad Ahmad
It was December in Kashmir. Snow had carpeted the whole valley. Everywhere. On the roof tops of thatched houses, on the naked tree branches, on the roads, in the open fields. Everything around was white. People who left for work, made their way through snowy lanes leaving behind their foot prints More
- Kashmir
Govt wants 3000 migrant posts centrally-funded
BHALLA CITES FINANCIAL LIMITATIONS IN LETTER TO NEW DELHI
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, July 29: The Jammu and Kashmir government has shot off a letter to the Central government asking it to meet the “wage bill “of the 3000 Kashmiri migrants—appointed under the Prime Minister’s More
- Srinagar City
HAZRATBAL POLICE ABORTS MURDER BID
Victim rescued, kidnappers arrested
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, July 29: The Hazratbal police on Thursday said it rescued a person from the clutches of kidnappers who were allegedly conspiring to murder him. The victim, Muhammad Hanief Bhat son of Ghulam More
- Jammu
HC stays fresh GAD order
Jammu, July 29: Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Jammu wing has stayed operation of an order passed by the General Administrative Department (GAD) imposing fresh conditions on the payment of House Rent Allowance More
- South Asia
Attique sworn as AJK PM
NISAR AHMED THOKAR
Islamabad, July 29: The president of Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan was sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of AJK on Thursday. The AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan administered More
- Business
Valley gets dates from PaK
In the run up to Ramadhan
RABIA NOOR
Srinagar, July 29: With holy month of Ramadan approaching nearer, the demand for dates from PaK has begun to increase in the Valley. Consequently, 80 per cent of the consignments received this week from More
- World
Profiles of 100 million Facebook users leaked online
New York, July 29: A security researcher on Wednesday released a file containing the names, profile addresses and unique identification numbers of more than 100 million Facebook users. The information More
