Long wait
It was really a long tragic wait for the families of three Rajouri youth even to get the bodies back from the authorities in Kashmir as their innocent wards were dubbed as militants and killed in the encounter at Shopian. Belonging to very poor families these three youth have come to Shopain to work as […]
Mainstream struggle
The latest party to hint for the political struggle to restore the special status of jammu and Kashmir is the People’s Conference headed by Sajad Gani Lone. In his first party meeting held after his release from the detention he told his colleagues that the strgulle for the restoration of article 370 would be united […]
NEW THINKING
Since the abrogation of article 370 last year, mainstream political parties faced not only detentions but also curbs on all political activities. During this time it was only BJP and the panchayat members who were moving freely in Jammu and Kashmir. After the prolonged detentions most of the political leaders approached courts for their release […]
Recent developments
Some of the recent developments have forced the mainstream political leadership of Kashmir to think out of box for the political fight against New Delhi in order to get back special status which was snatched on August 5, 2019. The Supreme Court gave all the powers to the administration for the restoration of 4G services; […]
Jammu in focus
From the media to politicians, everyone is blaming the government for the negligence deaths of covid patients especially due to the disruption of oxygen supply. One of the senior journalists from Jammu told the media that he has shifted his close relative to Punjab as he had fears that he would die due to the […]
Hot autumn
While this is the season for the rural people of Jammu and Kashmir to go for harvesting, hundreds of villages near to the LOC are facing huge difficulties due to the recent sprut in the border shelling cases. Many houses have been damaged in the past few months and many villagers have been killed and […]
SECURITY COVER
Government has many times said that they are providing the required security cover to all those political activists who have a threat on the ground. But some of the killings in the recent past have exposed such claims of the government and have shown that the ground workers are still vulnerable and rest are only […]
POLITICAL SPACE
Government has recently allowed all the mainstream political parties to hold meetings and have lifted the restrictions on their movement and also on their activities. The National Conference was the first political force to get the space and they held a series of meetings in Srinagar to discuss the ground situation and also to take […]
Pain of Sajad Lone
Sajad Gani Lone was the first politician from Kashmir to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and decided to have an alliance with BJP much before PDP. He was a critic of both National Conference and PDP and used to call them as political qabal of Kashmir out to deceive their own people and work for […]
Kargil simmers
People of Kargil are not happy with the recent developments in their newly created Union Territory and they want either Ladakh to be declared as a separate state or the Kargil district should be made part of Kashmir. They are not amused not even with assurances of Union Home Minister to the Ladakhi leadership that […]