US Appointing Kashmir Expert

Is there any scope of hope for us anyway?

PUNCHLINE By Z.G. Muhammad

‘If I am not reading too much in it; or it really is a significant   development that needs to be thought over and talked about.’ Or ‘it is tempest in teapot.’ On Saturday morning, after reading a newspaper report these ideas struck my mind at once.  The report said that Washington More
The poetry of protest

Faiz intermingles revolutionary ideas with aesthetic experiences

MESSAGE By Mir Imtiyaz Aafreen

 The question has been raised frequently whether poetry should be usedas a medium of transmitting socio-cultural and political issues or itshould only be directed towards providing aesthetic insight. InEnglish Romantic tradition, P B Shelley uses poetry for the expressionof revolutionary More
Sublime Ruins

I reach home. Hands shake and ink falls

MUSINGS By Mir Faizan Ul Haq

I leave the masjid. There is an impervious haze all around. The dim sun is drifting towards the lands beyond those majestic mountains that guard this village. Snow will be here in a few days. Across the courtyard walnut trees stand like wizards with their branches making ominous signs. Behind the More
Failure is not the end

We must develop confidence in our children. Putting pressure on them to score more and more harms them

EDUCATION By Abid Jeelani

While it is natural to feel some stress during exams, the intensity of fear to the students is alarming. And the main reason for this is our attitude to failure.A do-or-die scenario thrust on adolescents, who are just beginning to make a foray into our competitive world can prove fatal. Not only More
  • Kashmir

ZAHID FAROOQ 2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Father decides to approach SC

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Feb 5: Family of teenage boy, Zahid Farooq, allegedly killed by paramilitary BSF men on this day in 2010 at Brein Nishat, is yet to come at terms with life.   The intense grief of his More


  • Srinagar City

Another deadly mishap at faulty Sanat Nagar square

Load carrier crushed to wreckage,driver critically wounded; Admin sleeps

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Feb 5: A load carrier auto-rickshaw was crushed to wreckage and its driver critically wounded Sunday morning when the cab collided with a truck at faulty Sanat Nagar square, which government More



  • Jammu

Students stage protest in Jammu

Demand expulsion of Education, PHE ministers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 5: Demanding immediate expulsion of Education Minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed and PHE minister Taj Mohi-ud-din from the state cabinet, various student organizations on Sunday staged a protest More


  • South Asia

Chinese to be taught in Pakistani schools

Islamabad, Feb 5: Chinese will soon be taught in schools across Pakistan, said a minister. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said arrangements were being made for More


  • World

Violence in Egypt, Govt building set on fire

Cairo, Feb 5: Egyptian pro-democracy activists set on fire a prominent government building in central Cairo as the street protests against army rule raged into the fourth consecutive day, with the toll More


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