Srinagar: A new book on Kashmir titled Resisting Occupation in Kashmir has been released in America. The book analyses the social and legal logic of “India’s occupation of Kashmir in relation to colonialism, militarization, power, democracy, and sovereignty,” according to its publisher University of Pennsylvania Press. “It also traces how Kashmiri youth are drawing on […]
By Rafique A. Khan The Dal lake, once a sparkling fresh water body, is severely polluted, to say the least. As part of its programme to ‘Save the Dal’, the government’s proposal is to remove the houseboats moored along the lake from Dalgate to Gagribal and relocate them to Doldemb. Doldemb is on the lake bank opposite […]
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government today initiated a crackdown against Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and its humanitarian wing, Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), by seizing the organisations‘ offices and taking over the latter’s operational matters, the Dawn reported. Peshawar’s district administration, with the help of police and other law enforcement agencies, had initiated action against the JuD in […]
New York City will pay three Muslim women a total of $180,000 after they were forced to remove their hijabs while having police mugshots taken. The lawsuits were settled in Brooklyn federal court with each of the women receiving $60,000 each, according to media reports. The first case dates back to 2012 when a teenage girl—identified […]
Muneer Baig The situation in Kashmir has forced many Kashmiris to leave their homeland in search of answers for their struggle as Kashmiris and as human beings aspiring for a better life. I left Kashmir and migrated to the United States in the early ‘90s. it was not easy, but there were not many options […]