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Qazi Shibli Devastated by the shocking news of migration from her parents, Lalita Raina, known as Laleh, found herself reluctantly leaving behind everything she held dear. As a college-going young girl with predominantly Muslim friends, the prospect of bidding farewell to her life in the Kashmir valley weighed heavily on her. In the early morning hours, Lalita's family boarded a taxi, joining the caravan of hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits fleeing the region. Despite the heartbreak, Lalita, now 54, managed to pack a cherished photo from her recent trip to Pahalgam with college mates before departing for Jammu, carrying with her a symbolic pile of mud from her homeland. Fast forward to the summer of 2011, Lalita reconnected with her Muslim friends, particularly her best friend Shayla (...

Kounsar Bashir The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by its supremo Arvind Kejriwal, is planning to make a massive entry into the Jammu Kashmir polls with key focus on the Jammu region. After a huge victory in the Punjab polls, the party is seeing a heightened activity in its Jammu office located at Gandhinagar in the city. The party is also witnessing the joining of candidates, activists every single day, sources told The Kashmiriyat. "Small trader bodies, job seekers along with various other sections of society angered over the developments post the abrogation of Articles 35-A and Article 370 have promised full support to the party," they said. Industrialists expected some sort of support, but they got none and most of the units functioning in Bari Brahmana industrial estate are non...

Insha Mushtaq Dar The conflict in Kashmir was initiated back when in 1947, British India was partitioned into the Hindu-majority secular republic of India and the Muslim-majority Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and it still continues till this day. In spite of the political and religious differences between Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits, both communities lived in harmony even after the 1947 partition. Post partition, when the whole of India was burning in communal riots, the Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits didn't let the tension muddle their communal harmony.buy zenegra online https://nouvita.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/new/zenegra.html no prescription India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi, observing the communal harmony among the Kashmiri Muslims, and Pandits...

Mehr-u-Nisa Khunmoh area of the summer capital Srinagar has long been witnessing rise in pollution given the presence of cement plants and other industries, causing a threat to the environment. It is pertinent to mention that there's also been an increase in the number of stone crushers in the area. The locals of Khunmoh, however, have been demanding shut down of these crushers. The locals say that the haphazard development of industrial units including the cement factories and stone crushers in the area without following pollution control norms has given rise to the emission of hazardous gases. According to the locals, this has not only endangered human life but even faint-bearing trees of the area have been adversely impacted, resulting in a reduction of fruits by up to 80%. ...

In the many allegations leveled against journalist Fahad Shah in the Public Safety Act (PSA) dossier, submitted before the District Magistrate of Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir police has stated that Fahad was “Propagating stories in a particular selective narrative which is in line with the ISI/separatist propaganda." The dossier also mentions “posting anti-national content," as one of the allegations. J&K Police has alleged that Shah’s 'modus operandi' was to carry one or two stories per month which were based “entirely on the victimhood narrative that glorify stone pelters, terrorists and justify separatism and violence." It is pertinent to mention that journalist Fahad Shah, the editor of a Kashmir based media organization 'The Kashmir Walla' was arrested for the third ti...

Kounsar Bashir/ Danishwar Hameed A female tutor deputed in Kulgam has alleged sexual harassment by officials at her workplace in a nursing college (GNM) in the south Kashmir district. The woman has written to several higher officials in the local administration urging them to take strict action against the accused employees. In her complaint, the female teacher alleged that the accused employee used to pass sexual and offensive comments. In a copy of the complaint written to the higher authorities, which was accessed by The Kashmiriyat, she said, "I warned him repeatedly but he didn't mend his behavior." Narrating her ordeal to The Kashmiriyat she said that the employee who is also an official of the Health Department used his position to harass her. She alleged that he sent he...

Suhail Dar The local administration on Friday faced a sharp protest over a demolition drive over "illegal construction" in the Gadol area of the Kokernag belt of South Kashmir's Anantnag district. A team of revenue officials comprising of SDM Kokernag and Tehsildar on Friday reached an Islamic seminary 'Hazrat Khadija tul Kubra' in the area to demolish "illegal construction", but were met with strong protests from the students of the seminary. The Local administration's drive against the various construction has been on for a long while against constructions on "state land" by local residents. In February, the Anantnag admin claimed it recovered over 1700 Kanals of state, Kahcharie land in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag. In a continuation of these drives, the officials reach...

Insha Mushtaq Dar Kashmir being a conflict zone has engraved in it the painful and gut-wrenching stories of wailing mothers, wailing sisters, widows and half-widows (Women whose husbands have been subjected to enforced disappearances). The life of Kashmiri women has immensely been impacted by the conflict of the region. Kashmir apart from being a home of nature, exquisite landscapes, green lush meadows, high hailing mountains and eye-catching rivers, is also a home to myriad wailing women who are either crying over the dead bodies of their beloved or waiting for the return of their beloved. Hafeeza Begum has to visit her psychiatrist twice a week and is on high medication to control her depression and anxiety. Ever since her son was killed her mental health has deteriorated with ever...

Sheikh Nadeem Mohammed Sultan (67), a resident of the Dehruna area in Anantnag district has been visiting the nearby Nallah every morning for nearly a month in anticipation of water. The river Bringi has run almost dry in the villages following Wandevalgam where a sinkhole developed on the Bringi Nallah on February 11 at around 4 pm. The sinkhole disrupted the entire flow of the stream. The district administration immediately moved to mitigation measures. They said that concurrent efforts are in progress to understand the scientific cause of the event and possible resolutions were also started. The vertical sinkhole at the midst of the river bed has halted the flow of the freshwater stream. The sinkhole has been draining in all the run of the stream water and left the entire downs...

Meer Irfan Pleasant winter sun has come out on Tuesday. Some years back, people would be joyful and with a smile on their faces, they'd rush out of their houses to enjoy the pleasant February sun. However, today, walking the match-stick size roads of Shopian countryside is not the same as back then. Deserted and calm, a few faces that are visible here, seem gloomy - nobody knows why! Among a couple of people walking these streets are two old men - one with a herringbone cap- about 6 feet tall, wearing a Pheran, a walking wooden stick in his hand, a fair complexion. His other hand is resting on the shoulder of another man with a white beard. Mohammed Anwar and Chaman Lal have spent the prime of their youth, their old age together. They have been friends for the last 35 years. About...