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Why Suicide Rate Is On Rise In Kashmir?

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Dr Qayum Hamid Changal Suicide is considered as one of the grave sins in Islam. And, also it is a sign of personal weakness and giving up, turbulent and depressive state of mind, misguided society, and oscillate government. In Kashmir, one of the major factors is the ongoing conflict and flooding of Valley with troops and restrictions by government. The source, root or origin is multifactorial. It would be unwise if we blame only a particular lapse and bury the rest. Though our society is proudly riding on the horse…

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Geelani is my leader

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Dawood Nabi I believe in action not in reaction. But the reaction to Syed Ali Geelani’s recent interview prompting me up to write few lines. This is a letter that is prompted by recent “response drama” to one of the bravest and the most prominent Hurriyat leaders who did everything what was in his ambit for the aspiration of the Kashmiris. Criticism is good but only when it is constructive. Geelani Sahab remains Kashmir’s most beloved and heroic figure despite vindictive criticism. He is an ideology and idea which cannot be…

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Transported to the era of ‘Nund Rishi’- the flag-bearer of Kashmir

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Iqbal Kirmani Urging the academic world to reinterpret the teachings of Kashmir’s patron Sufi saint, Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-Din (RA), Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar Friday said the saint’s life needs retelling as the era of great secularism in Jammu and Kashmir. “In today’s world where Muslims face internal divisions, the era of Sheikh is an example of great secularism in Jammu and Kashmir. Like we have to rediscover the message of Quran, we have to rediscover Sheikh-ul-Aalam as a great connector between people of different faiths,” Akhtar said. The Minister was…

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Kashmir in Hindi Cinema

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Bollywood should give back the legendary naive characters Nasir Ahmed From sixties to eighties, the The Indian Hindi film industry, popularly known as Bollywood and Kashmir enjoyed a sort of made for each other relation. During this period dozens, rather scores of movies were shot in Kashmir on a plethora of subjects, mainly romance, action and family drama. Kashmir used to be the most favorite outdoor location of Bollywood. A film was treated as incomplete if it did not have song or two shot in the lush green environs, dense…

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Children of the Hurriyat Family

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It is darkest before the dawn Shoeb Hamid A cursory observation though, New Delhi and Islamabad of late have been engaged in an intense narrative war, on Kashmir and other issues. Their minions have hardly left any space or opportunity to score a point over the other by claiming what is not even theirs in the first place. But that is just their usual business of poking nose into affairs of others. Whether they see Kashmir as an unsettled and unfinished project whose contours were drawn when these fraternal twins…

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KCCI seeks Australia’s help for state’s economic development

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A delegation of The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Inc) led by Mr. Gowher Maqbool the Sr. Vice President, KCC&I had an interactive meeting with the High Commissioner of Australia on his visit to  Srinagar on the 9th of December 2015. Various important trade related issues, the issues related to the economic development of the state in which Australia can extend its technical/ financial  and also the diplomatic support for the growth of Cross LOC trade between the two parts of the State, were discussed in detail. The delegation informed…

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Twelfth International Kashmir Conference Concluded in New York

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New York. December 11, 2015. Twelfth International Kashmir Peace Conference, entitled, “Beyond the Blame Game: Finding Common Grounds for Peace and Justice in Kashmir,” organized by International Educational Development (IED) at the Church Center of the United Nations, New York, attended among others by the academics, researchers, the delegates from various United Nations Missions, representatives of the United Nations NGO’s, social and civil rights activists, political analysts and prominent Americans of South Asian origin, began with the key-note speech delivered by Hon. Ramsey Clark, 66th Attorney General of the United…

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Our life, their life

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S S Qadri Online shopping is the latest trend in Kashmir. People prefer to shop online for the heavy discounts, genuine products and ease of buying without going into the conventional haggling and bargaining that has plagued the local markets. Moving from one shop to another, shuffling things and the price tags in desperation, envisioning a monstrous scoundrel in the appearance of every salesman, has shifted the shoppers choice to other lucrative options online. The online products decorated with the heavy discount tags on leading brands have been predominantly instrumental…

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I never accepted Geelani as leader

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Aajiz Tufail Shah I was not shocked or even surprised with the behavioral changes Geelani adopted because I was never accepted him as a leader but that does not mean he is enjoying a freedom and possessing license to declare people and nation I belong to; a failed one. We will not go through the pages of history but surely there is a need to shed some light on recent incidents or events. On November 23rd, Geelani called for shutdown “to honor sacrifices of Bijbehara militants”, most people were surprised…

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I died twice, still I’m alive

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Ghulam Nabi Khayal It is about fifteen years ago that I was in Pakistan to meet some relatives over there. In Lahore, I soon developed a close contact with Shoaib-Ibn-Aziz, an affectionate and lovable person. He was also a nice Urdu poet, holding the charge of Director of Information Department of the Punjab government. I used to spend most of my time with Shoaib exchanging pleasantries and talking freely about literature and politics. One fine morning I received a phone call in my hotel room from Shoiab asking me to…

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