America, Osama and Kashmir

No emotions, let's learn to be practical

VIEWPOINT By Hashim Qureshi

Many people are angry with the US dropping Osma’s dead body into the sea. They rubbish the US claim that the body was submerged according to Islamic rites. But why be cross with the US? It has always been oppressive to freedom loving but subjugated nations. Its policy is to enslave countries politically More
Roy the novelist

BOOK REVIEW

The God of Small Things is a novel with a difference, reviews Dr. Farooq Ahmad Peer

Arundati Roy is at present India’s top ranking novelist and a top human rights activist who has been highlighting the cause of the oppressed people. She was conferred the prestigious award of the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize More
Fighting America

HEGEMONY

They create heroes themselves and then they mow them down. If Osama is declared a terrorists by US, a bigger question we must answer is this. What did US do to the world it claims to civilize, writes Syed Arshad Hussain Kashani

America has unleashed terror on the whole world thereby making civilizations clash. Time and events vindicate the same. The clash has happened everywhere. Sometimes it scaled a new high, sometimes it remained dormant but it was never dead. Osama is the latest character in this story of rebellion against More
  • Kashmir

EU delegation meets Mirwaiz, Malik, Sajad, Mehbooba, Altaf, Beg

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, May 13: A delegation of European Union on Friday met prominent political leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Sajjad Gani Lone, Mehbooba Mufti, Mian Altaf and Dr  More


  • Srinagar City

Despite policing, 42 drug dens operational in City

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, May 13: Even if police claims to have gone after the drug peddlers in Srinagar, the health experts said there were still 42 drug dens operational, which openly sell drugs in different pockets More



  • Jammu

Transporters demand fare hike, threaten agitation

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, May 13: In what could be described as another jolt for the common man, the Jammu and Kashmir transporters have given one-week ultimatum to the government to increase the passenger fare by 50 per More


  • Briefs

Hajj draw of lots postponed

Srinagar: According to the Executive Officer, State Hajj Committee, the date of draw of lots (Qurrah) for the intending Hajj pilgrims of 2011, which was scheduled on May 14, has been postponed till further More


  • Business

Govt puts new VAT return form in abeyance: KTF

IG Road displaced shopkeepers to be rehabilitated this year only

GK BUSINESS REPORTER

Srinagar, May 13: In what would give a major relief to the traders, the “government has put in abeyance the new VAT return form till further orders.”President, Kashmir Traders Federation (KTF), Jan Muhammad More


  • News

US appreciates Pak cooperation

Officials Question Osama’s Widows

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, May 13: The US has been given "access" to the three wives of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, a White House spokesman said today and the "hostile" ladies were reportedly questioned More


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