KASHMIR

In late April 1991, Shaban Wakil, Editor in Chief of prominent Urdu daily Al-Safa, was brutally gunned downed in his office by Pakistani sponsored terrorists. Shaban Wakil had been critical of the terrorists who had unleashed an atmosphere of fear and terror in Kashmir since the eruption of terrorism in 1989. In following years, many […]

SRINAGAR: For the first time, there is no call for a ‘bandh’ in Kashmir on the eighth death anniversary of the Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. Kashmir is normal and life is normal. Guru was a Kashmiri separatist-turned-terrorist. He was convicted for his role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and subsequently received a […]

TANGMARG (BARAMULLA): Nine kilometers inside from the main road of Tangmarg on Srinagar-Gulmarg road is a village Goiwarain Hajibal, where Arif Khan (31), who represented India at the Beijing Winter Olympics lives. The village is sleepy and is sparsely populated. The mood is celebratory. The family of Arif is distributing sweets and requesting everybody to […]

One thing one can be sure about the wars is that apart from them being the harbingers of death and destruction; they keep on evolving. With the passage of time, most of the wars that started as conventional wars have now evolved into proxy/hybrid wars. One such war that started in 1947 as a conventional […]

SRINAGAR: Two terrorists of banned terror outfit Lashker-e-Toiba were killed in an anti-terrorist operation in Zakura, in the outskirts of Srinagar city on Saturday. Among the killed terrorists is one who shot dead a J&K Police Head Constable last week in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. His name is Ikhlaq Hajam. “#Encounter has started at Zakura […]

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday arrested Fahad Shah, editor of Kashmir Walla, for anti-national activities and he has been remanded to police custody. Fahad Shah is the editor of Kashmir Walla and has been very vocal against the security forces. Recently his portal reported that in Pulwama encounter in which four terrorists were […]

SRINAGAR: After over three decades, the people of Kashmir valley want an end to terrorism and this is evident from the anti-terror operations carried out since 1 January 2022. Eight out of 12 anti terror operations conducted last month were based on human intelligence and not on technical basis. Senior security officials in valley say […]

NEW DELHI: The Temple of Mata Tripur Sundari (Devsar) in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir was severely damaged and burnt in parts on Friday. The local Kashmiri Pandits claim the temple was desecrated by miscreants and they want the culprits to be punished and immediate probe should be done in the matter. Kashmiri Pandits […]

In last week of August 2021, prescribed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM) Chief Masood Azhar met Taliban leaders in Kandahar. The agenda of the meeting was to seek Taliban’s complete support for ongoing terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The interplay in Afghanistan between Taliban and Pakistan based terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad and others is no […]

With every step, the government seems to unravel what it sought to achieve with the 2019 constitutional changes on J&K. Given the record, we can only try to imagine what the vision was. With just about everything the government has done in Jammu and Kashmir since taking hands-on control of the place in August 2019, […]