By Aasif Sultan The most effective way to destroy people,” says George Orwell, “is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” When the authorities decided to cage the Valley after Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar jail on 9 February 2013, the Kashmir University authorities, it appears, had decided to obliterate […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: The son of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai who joined Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit today was “regularly harassed” by the police, his family alleges. Junaid Ahmad Khan, 26, went missing since yesterday after he left his home to offer Friday prayers. Junaid was “regularly called by the police who had lodged an […]
Nissar Ahmad, 53, has been telling the story of Kashmir through his lens since the onset of insurgency in the Valley in 1990. A veteran photojournalist, Nissar is an eyewitness to the horrors of the ‘90s. He shares his thoughts with Aasif Sultan When did you start your journalistic journey? I have worked for more than three […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: Veteran pro-freedom leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was on Monday elected as the chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, a powerful constituent of Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference faction. “The TehreeK-e-Hurriyat led by Syed Ali Geelani today held a meeting at its office in Srinagar and elected senior member Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai as the party chairman”, […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: Exposing yet another fault line in Kashmir’s three-decade-old insurgency, Al-Qaeda’s Kashmir wing Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind chief Zakir Musa has termed militant outfits backed by Pakistan as “armies working under Nimrod’s agency,” an indirect reference to Pakistan’s intelligence wing ISI. “… in his [Shabir Ahmad Dar] jihadi journey, every mujahid has a way […]
Srinagar: Police on late Wednesday ratified the claim of Al-Qaeda’s Kashmir wing Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind which had identified a slain militant in the Valley as south Indian from Hyderabad city. The militant was killed in a gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district during the intervening night of 11 and 12 March along with […]
Srinagar: Al-Qaeda’s Kashmir wing Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind today said that the unidentified militant who was killed in a gunfight in Hakoora village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag on Sunday evening along with two local militants was a south Indian from Hyderabad. Mohammad Eesa Fazili of Srinagar and Syed Owais Shafi of Kokernag were the two local militants […]
In 2008, two militants from Kerala were killed in a gunbattle in frontier district of Kupwara who were identified by their aliases Yasin and Fayaz. They belonged to Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit. Srinagar: In recent history, it is for the first time that Police has taken this much of time to identify a slain militant. After claiming that […]
Srinagar: It seems that the Kashmir University is taking Marxism’s classless society idea too seriously by keeping a Professor on a par with a Junior Assistant on examination duty during the 2018 State Eligibility Test in Jammu and Kashmir. An order from the Department of Commerce’s HoD, a copy of which is with the Narrator, […]
Srinagar: As Kashmir University braces to hold State Eligibility Test (SET) examination 2018 on Sunday 11 March, two bizarre orders have been issued that put teachers as subordinates to non-teaching staff during the conduct of the examination in the Valley. The two orders, a copy of which lies with Narrator, issued for the “smooth conduct” of […]