Kashmir is a safe place for Kashmiri Pandits

This refers to the news “Pandit Panch has message for KPs.” Indeed Kashmir Valley is a safe place where migrant Pandits can return anytime. However there must not be demands like separate homeland as has been rightly said by Syed Ali Geelani recently. In the past and even today the Kashmiri Pandits and More

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Soz statement

This refers to the news item regarding the statement made by the Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Prof Saif-u-Din Soz on the cash–for-vote scam (Greater Kashmir on May 2,2011). PCC chief while speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a May Day function, on Sunday had stated that horse trading More

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Collective fight

This refers to the news regarding closing down of illegally running USG clinics in the Valley. It is a good move taken by the Directorate of Health Services Kashmir. The office must not succumb to any pressure and continue to address the issue of declining sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir. It should be More

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Unhealthy trend

This refers to an unhealthy trend of dressing indecently to attract attention. Every time I move out, I am amazed at how much has changed since the days when a tailor would invest endless hours of hard work while making a dress and now time has come when he is yet to begin and dress is finished. The More

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Kashmir visitors

This refers to JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s statement on tourists. Such statements are the need of the hour. After 2008, there is an impression outside Kashmir that the Valley is not a safe place to visit. However it is completely baseless. Some foreign countries have also issued advisories on Kashmir. It More

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I agree

This refers to the article "The myth about Saudi woman" by Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor (GK May 8). I agree with the author’s view that realities happen to be contrary to what is being perceived sometimes. The world today presents a very bad image of the Arab women. There have been unnecessary stereotypes created More

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Good sign

This refers to the results of prestigious civil services declared recently. More youth from Jammu and Kashmir have this year qualified the examination. It reflects that Kashmiri students are highly talented and can crack any such examination. In 2010 the achievement by Dr Shah Faesal has encouraged other More

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