Because there always is a third side! “According to Kashmiris, the dispute can be resolved only through trilateral talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmir,” said Mir Suhail while defining Pakistan’s role The chronicle of Kashmir dispute dates back to 1947 with the newly demarcated dominions of India and Pakistan claiming the region in its entirety. […]
Opinions
No one should defend the use of a human shield by the army
ANALYSIS Meenakshi Ganguly The last two decades in Jammu and Kashmir have been marked by atrocities on all sides. Yet now the army has managed to do something which has shocked many people. In an attempt to fend off stone pelters, the soldiers strapped 26-year-old Farooq Ahmad Dar to the front of a military jeep […]
Musharraf’s Four-point Formula: The Devil in the Details #Kashmir
By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “Four-point Formula does not want to resolve the Kashmir dispute but to dissolve it.” Ambassador Yusuf Buch Abba Eban, an international diplomat is reported to have once said, “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they exhaust all other alternatives.” That wisdom was apparent when, in 1995, […]
Pellets fired to quell protests blind hundreds of Kashmiris
By Bernat Armangue | AP December 14 SRINAGAR, Kashmir— Indian authorities call the shotgun shells filled with hundreds of small metal pellets a “non-lethal” weapon for crowd control, but that does not make them harmless. They’ve inflicted a permanent toll on hundreds of Kashmiris hit by them. Their faces are scarred. Their eyes are damaged or simply […]
A Militant’s Blog: ‘Yes this is Kashmir’
By: Basit Rasool “The Water Is Red,” I exclaimed. Is this what they call crystal clear? I started thinking and got arrested deep within the thoughts. Hey Hey Hey…??? These sounds got me out from the jail of thoughts where I was arrested. I raised my head, a man with different clothes from others, with […]
1947 Muslim massacre in Jammu
— by Abdul Majid Zargar Today is 6th November, the day we commemorate in memory of victims of Jammu massacre 1947 , many of whom even didn’t know their fault to go to grave. A people which had faithfully obeyed & served the whole clan of Hindu Dogra rulers for almost a century, fell to […]
Bijbehara massacre: A survivor’s account; `Death comes when it has to come’
Zahir-ud-Din Srinagar, Oct 23: Death follows a strict calendar and it comes when it has to come. Fourteen-year-old Riyaz Ahmad Ganaie proved it on October 22, 1993. He was in the procession that was intercepted and fired upon by the BSF troopers near Post office, Bijbehara. He sustained multiple injuries in the chest, abdomen and […]
‘Dear Modiji, the people of Kashmir are not with us’
Indian journalist Santosh Bhartiya in an open letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi published on ‘Rising Kashmir’ claims that although “the land of Kashmir is with us, the people of Kashmir are not with us.” The journalist presents findings from a four-day trip to India-held Kashmir in the letter, addressing the use of excessive […]
Words of rage, songs of protest
HAROON MIRANI Srinagar: The documentary “In the Shade of Fallen Chinar” ends with a note, ‘the peaceful ending of this film might appear to be a misrepresentation given the ongoing unrest. With the quotation the filmmakers try to cement the fact that Kashmir is unpredictable and never believe the silence that looks like peace, a […]
History of custodial killings in Kashmir
The first reported custodial killing dates back to 1865 (Zahir-ud-Din) Srinagar: Kashmiris have been offering resistance to external aggression for more than four centuries. Thousands were arrested and subjected to extra-judicial execution. Unfortunately, there is no record of the people who were ruthlessly killed in torture chambers. The first reported custodial killings, however, date back to […]
