By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: Valley’s leading missionary school Tyndale Biscoe School, situated in the heart of Srinagar, has been declared “no longer safe place after the killing of Editor Mr. Shujaat Bukhari” who was shot dead by gunmen in broad daylight at Kashmir’s Press Enclave, stone’s throw from the school, on 14 June along with […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: Kupwara Police today took the DNA samples from Srinagar man who claims that a militant killed in north Kashmir’s frontier district Kupwara forests on Friday is his son. Ghulam Mohammad Bhat from Srinagar’s Old Barzulla area was asked by authorities to reach the frontier district to have his DNA samples. “Our […]
By Aasif Sultan A Srinagar family of Old Barzulla area claims that a militant killed in frontier district Kupwara in north Kashmir on Friday morning by the Army is their son who had left his home in January 2017. They claim that what Police and Army refer to as “unknown militant” is their 32-year-old son Mudasir […]
By Aasif Sultan When obituaries of Kashmir militancy had been written long back, ‘everything,’ in the words of Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, ‘turned upside down in a few days time’ after the killing of Burhan Wani on 8 July 2016. Since then more and more young boys are disappearing into the woods […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: As the month of Ramazan is starting tomorrow, 17 May, the government of India has announced a unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir, taking many people by surprise. The move comes as government forces operating in Kashmir are busy with the ‘Operation All Out’ that was launched in 2017. Since 2017, 290 militants, including […]
By Aasif Sultan Abdul Hamid Bhat, 52, a Kashmiri businessman-cum-environmental activist, has travelled to different parts of the world to spread his ideas about a greener world. Aasif Sultan spoke to this school dropout about his mission. Your brief introduction. I was born and brought up in Batamaloo area of Srinagar. I failed in my […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: A viral video showing an alleged Army informer interrogated by Hizbul Mujahideen rebel Sameer Ahmad Bhat alias Sameer Tiger, who was killed today at Drabgam village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district along with another rebel Aqib Khan, had sent a message for his chaser through the ‘informer’: “Tell Shukla, let’s fight […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: A Russian girl today embraced Islam as her religion on the hands of Deputy Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam at his office in Srinagar. The Deputy Grand Mufti identified the Russian girl as Olav Alexander, 33, who has been given the new Islamic name Neelofar. “She had thorough […]
By Aasif Sultan Shopian: As government forces pounded Niyaz Ahmad Lone’s two-storey house with mortar shells at Kachdoora village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday, a dying rebel was writing on the wall as to what he was fighting for. As the dust settled and people rushed to clear the debris, they found the […]
Army bullets orphan 18 months baby and shatters the dreams of a family By Aasif Sultan Shopian: Little Aiza is scanning the faces of every visitor at her home in Khasipora, Shopian carefully to find out whether here Abu has returned from the fields. She fails to find him at her home and asks her mother, […]