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Anarchy \ Arundhati Roy \ Kashmir \ Lemuel Gulliver \ Stone pelters
Of New Age Gullivers
By Hilal Mir An article titled “In response to Mridu Rai” but aimed at, as the author says, exposing “the blatant irony in how leftist ideologues and journalists, from the convenience of their jobs and professional lives, cheer on the poor man’s son in Kashmir to his grave”, seems at cross purposes with itself. Anyways, [...]
Corruption \ Kashmir \ Mirpur \ PaK \ Pakistan
Corruption Reigns in Pakistani Kashmir
By Zafar Iqbal The misconduct of political elite and top government functionaries suggests that Pakistan Administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), commonly known as Azad (free) Kashmir, is literally free from the burden of all rules, regulations and laws. Surprisingly, in a rampant political and administrative corrupt regime a member of ruling political party has been [...]
Kashmir — my motherland
By Shamim Shawl I was reading a book. Every page was interesting. An English writer remembering his village, its streets and ponds, a small school and fellow beings, his parents and every thing which was in his memory would always become sad.The writer usually behaved as a young small boy and started weeping for his [...]
Conflict \ Fahad Shah \ Kashmir \ Quit Jammu Kashmir Movement \ Tufail
I am a citizen of Conflict
By Fahad Shah I am a citizen of Conflict. I am born in a place which was once with Afghan’s than Sikhs and Dogra’s. Then its fate was finally forced to join silver chains of a country which claims to be a largest democracy of world. I believe nations are build they are not constructed [...]
Ganderbal \ I Protest \ Kashmir \ Pakistan \ Sindh \ Valley
Self exile:From Kashmir to Pakistan
By Zahida Parveen East or west home is best. If I will get thousand life times in this world still I will never feel like in my birth place Kashmir anywhere else. If you will ask that how is it to be in Pakistan, being away from my homeland Kashmir? I must say that it’s [...]
Anchar \ Buchpora \ cellphone \ Facebook \ Tufail
Curfew nightmares
By Muhammad Owais My cellphone rings consistently at dawn for a wakeup alarm from my Dad. I woke up. I have to go out to offer Fajar (morning) prayers in a local Mosque. Before setting my steps towards prayers, I login to my Facebook account on my cellphone. I have a look to posts of [...]
democracy \ India \ Kashmir \ Pandits
This Summer, Last Summer and many other Summers
By Seema Duhan ver the last 60 days of summers, the time of maximum mobility and economic activities has been sacrificed in the Kashmir Valley to the latest uprising. People poured down on the streets, not just from the areas falling under the 5 Police Stations located in the urban pockets as claimed by a [...]
AN OPEN LETTER TO OMAR ABDULLAH
Mr. Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir State, Omar Abdullah we are now familiar to bloodshed and violence which has been forced upon us by the tyranny of politicians from both either by state or centre. Humps of probe files are lying in government offices. What is the reason behind calling for probes when they [...]
…And I lost my friend
It’s very hard to forget the moments we shared with each other. I remember my friend Allah Rakha’, a photojournalist who died in a tragic accident on Shab-e-Qadr this Ramzan. My heart is trembling; my hands are shivering, tears are rolling down from my eyes as I am writing some words for my beloved friend, Allah [...]
Three Men And a Cup Of Tea
In the city centre here at srinagar. Sunday morning, looking for a tea shop. Here I reached to one at the dead end of the lane. I was dragged in by my desire of having a cup of tea in this cool breeze morning. The moment I entered people already seated there paid a serious [...]
And we lost Asrar…….!
It’s very sad for me to put in writing about a person who is now no more. He was a young good-looking boy with red cheeks, green eyes and golden hair, but his good looks deceived him. He was liked by everyone, he was adored by everyone, admired by everyone yet death takes him away. [...]
Let’s find out our own Kashmir
Kashmir valley which once used to be called the heaven on earth is nowhere in existence now. I have lost my homeland, my motherland, Kashmir because all of us, the stake holders of the valley degraded our own society and culture; we left no stone unturned to carry out this fatal misdeed. We lost our [...]
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