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Kashmir’s Unmarked Graves; UN Mediation

By Huma Sheikh In August 2011, the unmarked graves atrocity came to light in Kashmir after the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission confirmed that more than two thousand bodies were buried in those graves in several districts of the Valley. The commission said many of the dead were civilians who had disappeared over the [...]

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IMAGINE! China Invades America!

Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe” or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their strategic [...]

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Meeting A Counterinsurgency Officer

By Farah Bashir In the course of the last ten years, that I have been away from home, I have met many people from various parts of the world. After I would introduce myself as a Kashmiri, either they have had something to share about Kashmir or they have wanted to hear about the life [...]

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Why He Throws Stones

By Iymon Ganaie In the battlefield; guns, bullets, teargas shells, lathis, bricks and stones are the common weapons. Stone is Manzoor’s only weapon in this battle, played on the streets and highways of Kashmir. “Either you hit or you miss. There is no in between,” Manzoor says of the stones he throws. Winters often put [...]

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Army ‘refuses’ to vacate land

In 2002, their land was ‘forcibly’ occupied by the Army. Nine years after, the inhabitants of Fakirpora, a hamlet in Drugmulla-Kupwara, are still waiting for the Army to vacate 62 kanals of their land or pay the necessary compensation. “It was January 2002 when army told us that they want our land. When we refused, [...]

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Army’s Half-Marathon Participants Beaten Up

Army’s public relations campaign today went awry after police baton charged college and school children at a prize distribution ceremony resulting in injuries to an unknown number of students including six girls in this south Kashmir district. Among the injured girls four were identified as Bintul, Sheema, Umaira and Ruqaya from Goodwill school of Balapora [...]

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