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‘No borders that terrorism cannot cross’: Kashmir condemns Christchurch Mosques Shooting

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The Kashmir Valley on Friday came together to denounce terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that killed at least 49 people saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach The Kashmir Valley on Friday came together to denounce terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that killed at least 49 people saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach. Across the political divide and on the street, Kashmiris voiced their disgust over the way gunmen said to be whites entered two…

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Dal Lake’s floating produce market is a Lifeline amid the Unrest in Kashmir

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In pre-dawn darkness and near-freezing drizzle, the shikara — a graceful, gondola-like canopied boat — made its way through a series of waterways. It was taking me to the daily wholesale floating produce market that begins at daybreak on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the main city of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Kashmir, the region disputed between Pakistan and India and engulfed by unrest for decades, saw renewed fighting in recent weeks. But on this morning on Dal Lake, the only sounds were the steady dipping of my shikara wallah…

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Kashmir is rich in natural resources

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We know that politics is prevailing everywhere in Kashmir, whether it may be our homes or schools, religious places or local chowks, playground or public parks, business establishments or offices. We are considering ourselves as masters in discussing political scenario that too not only our Kashmir issue but also on the happenings around the world. Recently, I visited my uncle’s home and GST was on top of agenda among the presentees. I observed that everyone was diverting towards political scenario even having been an economical issue like GST. That is…

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Amid the threat of nuclear war, Kashmir is no longer safe for Kashmiris

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When the first fighter jets tore through the sky over his home in Srinagar, Kashmir, 50-year-old Mohammad Yusuf knew immediately that something was very wrong. As a maths teacher, Mr Yusuf has worked at schools no more than 10km (six miles) from the “Line of Control”, the de facto border agreed by India and Pakistan between their respective territories in Kashmir. Yet until last week he had never heard the roar of jets flying low overhead, never mind in Srinagar itself – the summer capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir…

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World looks away as Kashmiri’s are stuck in the middle of potentially nuclear conflict

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When Adil Dar rammed a car stuffed with explosives into a paramilitary convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir last month, I didn’t make much of the news. I was travelling across northern India at the time. Having been born and brought up amid a conflict that has defined the life of every young Kashmiri for the past three decades it just seemed more of the same: military cordons, gunfights, curfews, blown-up houses, maiming and the death of our friends and acquaintances. But the magnitude of this attack by Dar, a 22-year-old Kashmiri,…

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Annual 46 day Amarnath yatra to begin from July 1

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The 46-day long annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas will begin on July 1, a Raj Bhavan official said here on Thursday. The decision was taken at the 36th meeting of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) which met at the Raj Bhavan under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik, he said. The SASB manages the annual pilgrimage on the traditional Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the shorter, Baltal track, in Ganderbal district. Based on the approach set by the Sri Sri Ravi…

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Separatists being held under controversial law allowing imprisonment without Charge

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Indian authorities on Thursday extended the detention of two separatist leaders in the disputed Kashmir region, police said, holding them under a controversial law that allows for suspects to be held for up to two years without charge. The order is part of a crackdown on militancy and those who demand mostly Muslim Kashmir’s secession, after a young man from the region last month rammed a car full of explosives into a convoy of paramilitary policemen, killing 40 of them. The attack was claimed by a Pakistan-based Islamist militant group.…

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Attack on Kashmiri’s continues, two dry fruit sellers attacked in Lucknow

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Two dry fruit vendors from Kashmir were attacked by a fringe right-wing group on a busy road in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. The incident came to light after One of the accused men shared a video of the assault on social media, triggering outrage.However, the video of the incident was taken down from Facebook. According to reports the incident occurred at 5 pm on Wednesday in central Lucknow’s Daliganj area.In the videos, the attackers can be heard saying that they did so as they were from Kashmir.The Kashmiri men…

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Zero crimes against tourists in Jammu & Kashmir: GoI report

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Exposing the negative propaganda against Jammu & Kashmir, a report by the Government of India has confirmed that there has not been a single crime reported against tourists in the state in past two years. This is despite the presence of separatist militancy in Kashmir that has only increased in the past two years.According to a report by ministry of home affairs (MHA), there has not been a single incident of crime against foreign tourists, including females, in Jammu and Kashmir while 284 such incidents have been reported during the…

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European Parliament Members ask India to ‘End Crackdown’ on Rights Activists In Kashmir

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Twenty members of the European Parliament have written to Central ministers, expressing concern about “worrying signs of shrinking civil society space in India”. Twenty members of European parliament have written to the Indian government and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) expressing concern over the crackdown on human rights defenders. They have urged India to create a more open civil society space. The letter is addressed to the ministers of law and justice (Ravi Shankar Prasad), tribal affairs (Jual Oram) and social justice and empowerment (Thaawarchand Gehlot), and to the NHRC’s…

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