Hyo Sajada!!!!

A brilliant piece of writing puts author in the dock

AJAZ UL HAQUE

Hyo Shabira is a heart-rending tale of a boy whose father and two uncles fell to bullets. (July 2, Greater Kashmir). The lone breadwinner, brother to three sisters and son to a widowed mother, Shabir headed a family when he was barely nine. With three young widows in the family alongwith other fatherless More

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A Clairon Call For All

It was shocking to see the ‘renovations’ including extension patterns applied to our signs and symbols of spiritual-cultural heritage locations

Dr. Riyaz Punjabi

This has reference to Mr. M. Saleem Beigh’s review (A Wake-up Call,Greater Kashmir, July 1st,2012) relating to the present state of affairs of our spiritual-cultural heritage sites particularly in Kashmir valley.He has rightly observed that special care and a professional approach and management More

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Monsoon’s NHPC angle

J&K will have to re-think its strategies for hydropower project handover

Arjimand Hussain Talib

Jammu & Kashmir’s power and economic crises may just worsen if the monsoon rains really fail in the country.Optimist meteorologists and ruling politicians are trying to downplay the impact, yet some losses are irreversible. The Monsoon may not fail outrightly, yet the delay is chilling. J& More

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Our Science Mashter

ZGM

I am too tethered to childhood. Is it wrong, I do not know?  Cannot say because it is too dear to me. In the wildest of dreams, I cannot think of separating it from my being.    I love every minute, I have lived and often dream of reliving every day of my childhood, boyhood More

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Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak

There is hardly any consensus about anything in today’s Pakistan

Happymon Jacob

Fifty nine per cent of Pakistanis consider India to be the biggest threat to Pakistan as opposed to the Taliban or al Qaeda, according to the results of a recent survey carried out by the Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Project. However, 62% of Pakistanis believe it is important to improve More

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