Opinion

 Crescent Kashmir

NEW THINKING

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Recent developments

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; […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Jammu in focus

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Hot autumn

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

SECURITY COVER

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

POLITICAL SPACE

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Pain of Sajad Lone

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Kargil simmers

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

DIVINE JUSTICE

DIVINE JUSTICE

Sajad Gani Lone was right and was speaking the heart of victim families when he said that justice should not be ornamental but should be divine. He was reacting to the police statement that the DNA samples of parents of Rajouri have matched those three persons killed by army in a staged encounter at Shopian. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Enquiry report

Enquiry report

In order to fix the responsibility on the ground J&K Government has suspended two officials who were responsible for keeping the oxygen supply to the covid designated hospitals of Jammu region. The government had ordered an inquiry into the death of a covid patient who died recently in the hospital and his family alleged that […]