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Sep72018 by News DeskNo Comments

Friday Focus- Islam in the Contemporary world

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September 07 Asma & Farooq Bakloo Islam world’s second largest Religion, is growing rapidly and is now spread to more than hundred countries on the planet. It is figured that there are 1.3 and 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world (Heywood 2011). The religion is based on the instructions of the Holy Quran and the teachings of the last prophet of islam, Muhammad. The Holy Quran was revealed on the last and final Messenger of Islam Prophet Mohamed (PBUM) during 23 years in Mecca and Medina, these places are located in the Suadi Arabia. Allah has sent number of the Messengers towards different nations to spread the message of love and compassion among humankind. However, the Messengers before the last Prophet of Islam was sent to specific areas and for a particular kind of people, ...

Aug32018 by News DeskNo Comments

Khursheed- An Aspiring KAS Officer and a Militant for Two Days

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August 03 The sojourn of Khurshid Ahmad Malik son of Gh Nabi Malik resident of Arbal village of Pulwama who was missing from last two days has ended in Drusoo sopore encounter. Khurshid as per family sources has completed his B Tech and was preparing for KAS. According to his family, Khursheed on Tuesday morning told them that he has to submit a form for KAS but did not return since then and his phone too was switched off. They later lodged his missing report at Police station Pulwama. His family members appealed every organisation to return khursheed home however he returned but only dead. In a video that went viral on social media, his family appealed him to leave militancy and return home. Family Sources told The Kashmiriyat that Khurshid called home late night and...

Aug12018 by News DeskNo Comments

1 August 1990: 12 Kashmiris including 2 Policemen Shot Dead by Army in Pattan

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August 01 On August 1, 1990 an Army convoy was on its way to Srinagar from Baramulla. “Some private trucks were also part of the long Army convoy. Pattan road was in shambles and there were many potholes. The tyre of one of the Army vehicles suddenly burst and Army personnel with their finger on triggers, mistook it as a militant attack. Panicky soldiers resorted to indiscriminate firing that lasted up to five to eight minutes. It was a hell let loose. People ran for cover while many, including vendors and shopkeepers, also received serious injuries in the resultant stampede", the victims recounted "Army directly targeted civilians. Over hundred civilians received bullets among which 12 lost their lives,” alleged a survivor. One of the survivors Ghulam Hassan Bhat from main tow...

Jul262018 by News DeskNo Comments

An Encounter in Islamabad Town after 13 years

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July 26 Many of Islamabad (Anantnag) residents have perhaps pompously come to regard their little town as a peaceful, untroubled, but that facade was shattered in just a few seconds with the acrid sound of gunfire filling the air and the blood of two dead men — Bilal Ahmed and Adil Hussain, soaking into the soil. The human cost of the shootout made it a repulsive event in the eyes of the Islamabad residents because Wednesday obviously has flipped the perception of nearly 13 years. The small town was supposedly a sophisticated place, but it was marred by horrible violence in the initial years of Militancy. "It is tough for us to forget what we have lived, one of the toughest thing to forget for anyone in the town is, 27 October, 1990, when Forces burnt down an entire locality, more...

Jul162018 by News DeskNo Comments

The Colour Palette of an Artist

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Lying here, in the corner of this street, next to the busy road, I have seen harsh winter freezing the water pipes, icicles hanging from tree tops, children laughing at each other when they stumble while trying to balance themselves on the frozen ice that covers the roads, and in spring, the town looks like an artist's colour palette, with orange, peachy- pink and white flowers and greenery all around, the fresh sunshine melts all the ice and the mountains are set free of the hard ice that had covered them for months. In the autumn nights, the street lights brighten up the crimson, golden and rust colored chinar leaves and make them look like they're on fire. Women sing folk songs on weddings, baandhs dance on the streets. In Ramadhan, the sahar khwaan beats his drum for pre-dawn calls. A...

Jul102018 by News DeskNo Comments

A Letter to My Brother in Heaven

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July 10 Reyaan Wani The flower of youth was yet to blossom And the smiling petals danced with breeze The memories of you, still bring tears Raze my heart with spears O brother, where did you vanish Alone! I am left to ravish Did you sleep alone in peace? Bringing tears, Gloomy faces voilently out of ease.. Restless, i can not even sleep My own breath chokes me Gazing from window i see The dreams of you rising in glee My heart is quenched by this fact And Sadness has covered my existence Come. Come from somewhere brother Hug your family, Hug your mother Your boy is just little and tender He needs you, he needs a mentor He still calls out for you O Dead nigh Cries himself and makes us also cry My heart is restless and full of sorrow Why you left us that way...

Jul52018 by News DeskNo Comments

The Tale of Burhan Wani and his 10 Associates

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Jahangeer Ganie Burhan Muzaffar Wani was the commander of a Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen.He became popular and appealing among some Kashmiris due to his activity on social media and actions of militancy against India in the Kashmir. He was killed in an encounter at Bamdoora kokernag with the Indian security forces on 8 July 2016 at the age of 22 which made him a hero of Kashmir.Burhan was born in year 1994 at his maternal home dadasara, Tral, Jammu and Kashmir, Killed in Anantnag district and laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard Tral. It isaid that in his funeral over one lakh people participated. Widespread protests erupted in the Kashmir valley after Wani's death, causing 2016 unrest in the valley for nearly half a year,in which more than 96 people died, while over 1...

Jul32018 by News DeskNo Comments

Coalition or Governor Rule? Kashmiris Do not Care

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Mohammed Amin Shah July 03 After the Bharatiya Janata Party pulled out of its coalition with the People’s Democratic Party last week, Amit Shah held a rally in Jammu, and attacked his former ally.Mufti said that her party was betrayed in what many called as the ‘unholy alliance.’ When the Government was formed was clear it was an indication why the space for mainstream politics in Kashmir is shrinking, the election campaign of People’s Democratic Party, was run on keeping the right wing at bay. Later to prove their loyalties to the Indian state, they joined hands with the Bhartiya Janta party, perhaps the think tanks in the regional People’s Democratic Party had learnt a new fact, connecting North Pole to South Pole of different magnets makes the electrons all spin in the same dir...

Jul12018 by News DeskNo Comments

Kashmir- Medical Officer Reaches Hospital to Save Youth Hit With Bullets, Finds His Son’s Dead Body

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Jahangeer Ganie Moments before he breathed his last, Faizan asked his friends to give his bloodsoaked shoes to his mother. His body was pierced by three bullets, one on the abdomen, two more in the chest and rib respectively. Son of a medical officer on duty at the same hospital where Faizan was treated after being hit with three bullets, he had told his father, "I will come back after Friday prayers, then we will have our lunch together." It was a normal wake-up call on a Friday morning on 29 June for Faizan, however, he chose to remain in the bed for a little longer on a rainy morning. He did not go to school, in fact, he spent his morning at his home in Pulwama town. At noon, he left for Friday prayers. As he reached the mosque, a few kilometers away the government forces h...

Jun302018 by News DeskNo Comments

Bashir Lashkar Encounter- An Eyewitness Account

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June 30 News spread in the wee hours of the morning on 01 July that the famous commander of LeT, Bashir Ahmed Wani (Lashkar) alias Abu Ukasha had been trapped in the Breenti area of Southern Kashmir’s Islamabad (Anantnag) district. People in droves of dozens and hundreds gathered around the encounter site trying to help the militants escape. In the first attempt one lady named Tahira wife of Abdul Rashid Chopan was the closest to the house where Bashir was trapped. She covered the face of Bashir with her scarf to give a chance to the militant to escape. Hundreds of others gathered close to the house, an army men tried to hit her with the gun, she in self defence hit the army man with a wooden stick she was carrying. People approached closer and the army fired indiscriminately at the ...