Srinagar: A viral picture of two ladies offering the funeral prayers of slain Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Ashiq Hussain Bhat in Shopian’s Rakh Kapran village on Monday has evoked mixed emotions on social media with some saying that it is a manifestation of resistance while others terming it un-Islamic. Soon after two militants and four civilians were killed […]
Srinagar Aasif Sultan As Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor Prof Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi’s tenure is set to come to an unceremonious end after the High Court rejected his extension appeal, things are now coming to the fore as to why Raj Bhavan wanted him out. Apart from illegal appointments made by Prof Andrabi during his tenure, it was […]
Srinagar: In a new audio message, Al-Qaeda’s Kashmir representative Zakir Rashid Bhat aka Zakir Musa and chief of Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind said that his group follows the methodology of Afzal Guru and will “fulfil his dream by freeing the resistance movement from Pakistan influence” while quoting from latter’s book Aaina. The authenticity of the audio message, […]
Srinagar: Two days after a guest house was partially damaged in Kashmir University’s Naseem Bagh, the varsity officials removed the hand written expiry and manufacturing dates on fire extinguishers present in various departments. However, after finding it difficult to hide the mismanagement at the varsity, the expired extinguishers were removed from the campus. Kashmir Narrator […]
Srinagar: A fortnight ago, Kashmir University’s Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) in Naseem Bagh caught fire during the night and no newspaper reported the incident. Even though the hungry flames inside the cafe devoured its furniture and machines, the owner wants the news to be buried under the fire debris. “I will get its compensation from […]
Srinagar: Five youth were detained by government forces during a siege in Kareemabad, a village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama, during the intervening night of 16 February and 17. The forces conducted door-to-door searches and vandalised property. A local from Kareemabad told Narrator over phone that the forces detained five youth on Saturday morning after a siege […]
Srinagar: After a local newspaper published a report about an anonymous doctor who was allegedly labeled as a “terrorist” for resisting to buy a lucky-draw coupon for a police fair, several people have come forward to spell out the ‘modus-operandi’ of police to sell the coupons. A youth alleged that some days ago he was […]
As the KU turns 70 this year, Kashmir Narrator digs into the deep mess the varsity is mired in In 1948, when Kashmir’s revered saint Meerak Shah Kashani laid the foundation stone of Kashmir University — then known as Jammu and Kashmir University — in anticipation of giving Kashmiris an educational platform to excel, not […]
Fayaz Ahmad Latha, a video journalist, saw death up close when he was caught in the crossfire between the army and militants in Badami Bagh cantonment in 1999 in the first fidayeen attack in Srinagar. Seventeen years down the line, he narrates his story Journalism is always a tough job. It becomes tougher in a […]
Mugees Ahmad Mir, a young militant commander of Kashmir, was killed in a shootout on the city outskirts on 17 November, according to the police, more than a year and a half after he left home. Aasif Sultan speaks to Mugees’s mother Hajra Banu about her son Q Did you ever ask him to return home? […]