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Month: May 2018

Nobody Informed Army, Our Phone Call was Traced, Saddam told Family in the last call

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May 06 I visited the house of Heff Shermal in Shopian the last month to meet the father of Saddam Padder; who suspiciously looked at me and fired a series of questions, who are you? Which Agency do you work for* *Ghulam Mohuddin Padder upon hearing that I am a journalist looked amazed. It was the first that some journalist had come to meet him. Lying in the corner of his one story house Ghulam Mohuddin Padder recited the ordeal of how his son Saddam up in Heff Shermal area of Shopian. “He was very active and a naughty child.” “He would ask for my permission to go to school, later when I went to cut wood in the fields, I would see him at a distance,” his father who is a wood cutter and an orchardist remembers. ‘‘Along with Waseem Shah (another local Militant), the Government Forces...
Jinnah Row at Aligarh Muslim University- ‘Another Attempt to Polarize us’

Jinnah Row at Aligarh Muslim University- ‘Another Attempt to Polarize us’

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The Narratives of the ‘Modern India’ are dangerous, developed to please the conscience of a few in a nation of multiplicity. One is burnt alive and few lynched simply for choosing the food they want to eat. Welcome to India of the 21st Century, where aggression and hatred is explicitly sermonized in news rooms (Pop Up battle fields). This is India of 21st Century where pursuing education after certain age is aberrant and a citizen with criminal backgrounds going to election is, Democracy. The unified effort by an increasingly Hindu nationalist state to normalize and mute potential alternative voices from educational institutes is a clear obstacle to the appearance of new generations of nation upholding a pluralistic understanding of Indian society. The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), in...

“I am proud that My Son Died as a Martyr”- Says Father of Sameer Tiger

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May 02 Jahangeer Ganie On Tuesday, Sameer Bhat alias tiger became the thirteenth militant of Drabgam village of South Kashmir's since 90,s who was laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard Drabgam. His family has no regrets and feels proud of his martyrdom. He was killed along with his associate in his native village on Monday afternoon. Class 8th pass, good looking, and native of Drabgam of Rajpora, Sameer joined militant ranks few months before the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani. "After passing his class 8th examinations, Sameer started working in a bakery shop at Pulwama and was several times arrested by security forces over stone Pelting charges," says Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, father of Sameer Bhat alias tiger. Before joining ranks he worked as an over-ground worker to provide logistical ...