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Salman Shah On 21st May 1990 three gunmen entered the bedroom of the Mirwaiz e Kashmir, Moulvi Mohammed Farooq who had refused security and shot him dead. Mirwaiz had reportedly sustained 15 bullet injuries all over his body. People say there were immediate provocations to the murder, including Mirwaiz meeting an Indian Minister or condemning the kidnapping of Rubiya Sayed as ‘unIslamic.’ But the immediate truth is, you call them excuses, not reasons, the only reason behind his killing was his popularity and the fact that he identified himself with an ideology, his killers wanted to shut forever. Mirwaiz was the head preacher to 5 lakh Srinagar people, Soon after, the blame was put on the ‘unidentified gun.’ As Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, a senior Journalist told a news agency, “Kashmir is ...

Salman Shah/ Irshad Hussain Jammu Kashmir's health system buckles under new covid 19, wave as many hospitals are running out of short of hospital beds for patients who have been Infected by Covid-19. Despite lockdown in all districts of Jammu Kashmir, covid positive cases are continuously surging on a large scale. Sher e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Kashmir’s leading tertiary care facility, like other hospitals in Srinagar is struggling to manage the rush of patients. Even though the hospital’s website did not have any vacant beds for COVID-19 patients at the time of writing; the number of available ICU beds had come down to three. Weeks ago, official figures showed that the Chest Disease Hospital, also at the forefront of treating COVID-19 patients, had only one...

Insha Mushtaq/ Zafar Dar Amid the tall claims and social media optics, the shocking revelations that have unfolded in the past few days force one to think that beyond the well-managed photo ops and bold headlines lies a grim state of Kashmir's ailing healthcare, negligence. In a similar case, four residents of Anantnag town in South Kashmir whose relatives have died in the past few days have made shocking revelations about how alleged medical negligence led to the death of their relatives. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, the family members of the victims, one of the bereaved member, whose mother and sister in law died of covid 19 in the last week, said that, "My mother and my sister-in-law had tested positive for COVID-19 on 24th April, and after that, my mother's oxygen saturation l...

Asif Ali The construction work for a 500-bedded Covid hospital at village Reshipora of district Budgam has stopped for unknown reasons, much to the disappointment of the locals, who had cooperated and had donated their land peacefully. The locals have raised their concerns over the sudden relocation of the proposed site for the Covid hospital, which was Reshipora in the Budgam district earlier and has been moved to Khonmoh, the Khrew area. Budgam authorities had cut down hundreds of trees, last week at the proposed site for the 500 bed Covid hospital. On May 4, 2021, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner of Budgam, Shabaz Mirza visited Reshipora village in Budgam district to take stock of the ongoing construction work of DRDO 500-be...

Mehran Bhat/ Kounsar Bashir Wearing mask and gloves, holding a nylon bag in one hand and a tiffin box in the other, Ghulam Mustafa Rather- aged around 55, enters a two-storey house, in the Padshahi Bagh area of Srinagar. His nephew, Mudasir, has been lodged in a nearby Police Station in the Srinagar district of Central Kashmir. He does not like to participate in protests or does not even like noise, so he, along with some boys from the locality painted the face of a woman wearing the Palestinian flag for a headscarf, and wrote, 'We Are Palestine'. Several other participants of the procession holding Palestinian flags stood near the Pro-Palestine graffiti and raised slogans against Israel. Hours later, the police reached the neighbourhood and around 12:10 AM, a nocturnal raid was c...

Syed Goussia Tabassum Time flies away, but the agony of any gruesome episode leaves eternal imprints in the hearts of people. The dents which can never be compensated, the wounds that never stop aching, the pain remains youthful and the cries of despair keep roaring. In this long driven bloody conflict, the valley confronts a number of incidents and among all these incidents the Khanyar massacre that took place on 8th May 1991 will be remembered in the bloody history of Kashmir as a dark day alongside many blood-soaked chapters of history. The episode is so old that after some time it will be obsolete and demanding justice for the same will be futile. ALSO READ: People Expectant of Gallantry Awards For Forces, As Kashmir Witnesses Another Massacre But the thing which needs to a...

Mir Junaid Mir Hussain and his elder Cousin, Mohammed Sidiq Gujjar were returning from his fields with his cattle, when they were surrounded by a group of cow vigilnates in the Garhote village of Tehsil Bhalwal in District Jammu on the dusk of Thursday shortly after finishing the post dusk meals and beaten mercilessly allegedly for being Muslims. The duo were returning from their fields after a busy day of work with the bulls at Danu and on theur way to their native Bagni, they were accused of cow slaughter, sharp edged knives were forces into their hands and videos of the duo with knives portrayed as meant for 'slaughter' of the bovine were circulated widely on the social media handles. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat a family member of the injured men said that around 9:30 PM, a gro...

Suhail Dar/ Zafar Dar "I saw the images of children weeping for their mothers who died at a very young age for the want of oxygen, we watched those grim images from Delhi together, the whole family promised we will keep our mother safe, But on Tuesday, her health deteriorated and as I ran, I could see my mother gasping for oxygen, she cannot talk, I cannot let her slip away from me," said Sonu (27), whose mother is admitted at the Government Medical college in Anantnag. Sonu is fighting a tough fight to keep his mother alive in a hubbub of noise and chaos said. The premier hospital of South Kashmir located in the town of Anantnag, is a hope to thousands of people, who from various parts of the South Kashmir districts and Bainhal and Ramban districts reach the hospital in expectation ...

Mumin Peerzada The Jammu Kashmir administration headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha recently announced the formation of a Special Task Force (STF) to bring under the scanner government employees allegedly involved in ‘anti-national’ activity, after which a teacher from Kupwara has been suspended allegedly for ‘Anti National Activities.’ Days after the order, the administration sent out an official notice that a teacher named Idress Ahmed Jan posted in Government Middle School of Kralpora, Kupwara was dismissed from his services. The order read, “The Lieutenant Governor is satisfied after considering the facts and circumstances of the case and on the basis of the information available that the activities of Mr. Idrees Jan, Teacher, Government Middle School, Kralpora, Kupwara are...

Sajad Hameed Nearly 38 kilometers away from Srinagar, beyond the loud headlines and dazzling photo ops, lies a large village Ferozpura, where a mass sampling drive was conducted a few days ago, and 130 residents tested positive for the covid-19 virus. Covid positive patients in urban localities across Kashmir have the facilities of oxygen and life-saving drugs, however, in many areas like Ferozpora, the covid positive patients are left to their own fate. Jammu Kashmir is reporting a shortage of life-saving drugs. The Kashmiriyat reported It is unlikely that vaccination of those above 18 years of age will begin from May 1. It has been reported that for the third phase of vaccinations, Jammu Kashmir does not have enough vaccines. “We have placed orders for vaccines but it will take tim...