Pindi, Pindi, Sonapindi

Will our political leaders respond to the grave crisis and the graver prospects for future, in the light of new wave of fake encounters

BREAKING VIEWS By Naeem Akhtar

The army major, who is alleged to have killed three Kashmiri boys from a Varmul village Nadihal, must be having a strong poetic streak in him. Otherwise there is no particular reason for him to have picked up this particular hamlet out of all which rhymes so strikingly with the other source of supply More

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The burden of inheritance

Younger the better, not necessarily the stronger

WRITE HAND By AJAZ UL HAQUE

Omar Abdullah – the burden of inheritance assigns two instant jobs. One to assess Arjimand Hussain Talib as an author and the second to evaluate Omar Abdullah as chief minister. Both are to be seen independently with a note of caution. None of the two is neither to be denied the credit nor granted More

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Shopian: The Forgotten Narrative

MAY 30 - ONE YEAR GONE

And the two innocent souls got brutalized. One year down, we can't forget the pain. Can we? Narrates Tanveer Habib

“To take part in African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves”. Sekou Toure, 1959.Shopian tragedy made every conscious soul shed tears More

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Census and Cynics

Looking at Kashmir through the Irish prism

DATELINE SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

At least four seminars were held in the last few days in Srinagar on the census issue. There seem to be two predominant arguments: one is categorical in that the census figures on J&K are fudged. Another argument denies this completely. Both the arguments, however, fail to convince completely More

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Some Shop Front Lessons

The lessons still fresh in my memory

Nostalgia By ZGM

It was the other day, when heavy rainfall had turned the sluggish Jhelum into a raging torrent; I was one amongst a hundred and odd people who had waded their way to sparkling white hall of a local hotel. The occasion was release of a book on chief minister, Omar Abdullah by a young   journalist More

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Digging deep for what?

What if Haroon is buried at Harwan or Solomon at Takht-i-Sulaiman!

Freeze FRAME By By Syeda Afshana

That Fiedel Castro, during that in¬credible guerrilla journey through the rugged terrain of Sierre Maestra, was carrying Rousseau’s Social Contract in his back pocket could be one of those myths, which the legend of revolution might have sparked off. The myth im¬plies two things. That Castro was yet More

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‘Fake encounter business’

Armed Forces Special Powers Act encourages crime in security agencies

Whats up By Sajjad Bazaz

Anti- militancy operations by army in Kashmir, particularly in far flung areas, has once again put credibility of the men in combat dress on stake. This time it is in Sonapindi, Machil where three innocent youth hailing from Nadihal were allegedly gunned down by the army in a fake encounter. As suggested More

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