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Raid, Summon, Censor: Crackdown on Journalists is the New Normal in Kashmir

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Raid, Summon, Censor: Crackdown on Journalists is the New Normal in Kashmir

New policy and policing methods combined with various prohibitive action has made journalism a particularly difficult profession to have in Kashmir. Junaid Kathju The raid at the residences of four Kashmiri journalists in the wee hours of September 9 might be seen as a jolt to the fourth pillar of democracy elsewhere in the world. In a conflict-torn Kashmir, however, it is the new normal that the journalistic fraternity is facing after the government of India took direct control of the former state, following the reading down of its special status on…

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How Social Media ‘Clowns’ are degrading Journalism in Kashmir

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How Social Media ‘Clowns’ are degrading Journalism in Kashmir

With the arrest of a social media ‘journalist’ in a sensational con case, the debate has once again started how some mike-men and Facebook page admins are bringing disrepute to the media profession. By – Auqib Javeed ON August 27, 2021, Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested Imran Ahmad Ganie, aka Shahid Imran, the self-styled “editor-in-chief” of the Facebook page—Kashmir Crown—in a case of fraud and extortion. The online shrill over the scam tried to cast the shadow over the entire tribe, forcing some senior scribes to counter the kneejerk reaction:…

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How Will Taliban Victory Impact Kashmir

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How Will Taliban Victory Impact Kashmir

By Mohammad Tahir The official data indicates that not many Afghans had entered the Kashmir insurgency in the early 1990s. Data on foreign militants who have been arrested or killed during the years when the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan (1996-2001) is hard to come by. The South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) website used to feature a separate dataset on foreign militants in Kashmir, but that information is no longer available on the website, for unknown reasons. Most commentators and analysts, therefore, have been using quantifiers instead of specifying the exact…

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Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

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Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

By Ummar Jamal On Saturday soon after police arrested Ashiq Mir, one of the associates of Shahid Imran, running a social media page –Kashmir Crown—in connection with a case of exhortation under section 383 of IPC, social media journalism became the recent talk of the street. Social media journalism was targeted for inauthenticity and unreliability. Journalists associated with print and television media voiced that social media journalism had degraded the prestige of journalism. They exclaimed that nowadays every Tom, Dick, and Harry buy a mic and put on an identity…

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Hope: Keeps You Alive

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Hope - Keeps You Alive

By – Aubaid Ahmed Akhoon “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise, you begin excusing yourself “ (Margaret Atwood) Change is the law of nature and for the last two years every aspect of life has been affected by Covid 19, but if we put aside the negative effects and consider the positive ones, we will see many positive aspects such as…

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Kashmir’s Descent into Drugs & Criminalization

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Kashmir’s Descent into Drugs & Criminalization

Javed Beigh Recently, Kashmir valley was rocked by two disturbing news. The first one was related to the news of a 10-year-old Kashmiri boy being brought by his father to a drug de-addiction center in Srinagar for heroin abuse, which was alarming given heroin is an expensive and highly intoxicating, and dangerous drug. And for a 10-year-old child to be using it, shows that Kashmir’s drug addiction problem has reached a critical threshold, wherein a substantial youth population of Kashmir valley is not just dealing with a mere drug addiction…

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Why are Sikhs of Kashmir angry?

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Why are Sikhs of Kashmir angry

By Javed Beigh Kashmir has historically been a multi-religious society, where Kashmiri Muslims, Kashmiri Hindu Pandits, and Kashmiri Sikhs have lived with each other for centuries maintaining the cordial, harmonious, and brotherly relationship. Sikhs of Kashmir, who actually are not historically from Punjab but are believed to be Brahmin and Rajput converts from the neighboring Jammu region and even Kashmir valley are very much an integral part of Kashmiri society. After the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindu Pandits, the Sikhs of Kashmir are now the largest religious minority of Kashmir…

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Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban?

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Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban

Recent developments in the region forced India to rethink its approach to the armed group. Abdul Basit In a crucial policy shift, India recently acknowledged that it entered into backchannel communications with the Taliban in Afghanistan. In early June, the Indian media reported that New Delhi has started talking to certain factions and leaders of the armed group against the backdrop of the withdrawal of the United States forces from Afghanistan. A few days later, India’s Ministry of External Affairs all but confirmed these reports, stating that “we are in…

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Doctor; A Savior Or An Executioner

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Doctor; A Savior Or An Executioner

Medicines cure diseases but only Doctors Can Cure Patients -Karl Jung Aubaid Ahmed Akhoon To start from the word “doctor”, so he’s a person who can bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity, and as such the medical profession is an utterly respected profession. During this pandemic, the doctors have played heroic roles and have done a remarkable and outstanding job. We owe them big time and it’s pretty necessary to appreciate their work. As it is mentioned in our authentic books of ahadees as well Narrated Abu Hurairah:…

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Of innocent prisoners, lynching incidents, and Kashmir

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Of innocent prisoners, lynching incidents, and Kashmir

Though Kashmiris opined that their elected leaders should attend the talks with the Centre, they were also rather certain that nothing really would emerge from those talks Humra Quraishi For the last few hours, I have been reading this latest book on the situation of the prisoners. In fact, the very title of this book – ‘Innocent Prisoners. Begunah Qaidi. Stories of Muslim Youth Falsely Implicated In The 7/11 Train Blasts and Other Terror Cases’ – relays the stark reality of those sitting implicated and imprisoned. This book has been…

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