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Shabir Ali Around 10 kilometers from Srinagar city, Hokersar Wetland, which is known to be the home of tens and thousands of Migratory birds, is located at Zainakoet area of Srinagar. It is the largest bird reserve in the Kashmir Valley, serving as an important staging ground for medium and long distance migratory shorebirds, geese, cranes, ducks and other species. Over the years, the wetland has been receiving domestic waste from all the residents, who live in the adjacent areas. Discharge of domestic waste into the wetland, primarily through the intel streams, has led to excessive weed growth and eutrophication, both of which pose a great threat to the reserve. Ghulam Mohammed (36) told The Kashmiriyat that everyday, people would throw domestic waste into the Hokersar wetlan...

Shams ul Haq Hailing from Trikanjan village of north Kashmir's Boniyar Tehsil Shazia Bano (21) has successfully followed her dream to write Quran. Shazia achieved this milestone in a span of just 8 months with hardwork and dedication. Shazia has completed her graduation and would look after household chores, too. "I didn't have any fixed or specific time duration for writing it, because I had to pay attention to my studies and other chores as well. I used to work on it in spare time during the night hours as I had very less time to utilize during the day." Talking about her future goals, Shazia said that she wanted to write a paragraph of Al Qur'an on a single sheet of paper which hasn't been done by anyone in the world, so far. Besides that, Shazia also happens to be a great call...

Insha Mushtaq Dar Today marks the 24th death anniversary of Adv. Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Regoo, who was a member of the High Court Bar Association and a businessman. Since then, Masooda Parveen, wife of late Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Regoo, has been fighting for justice at national to international platforms. On the night of February 01, 1998 at around 8:30 pm, Adv Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Regoo was abducted from his home in Chandhara Village of Pampore area in Pulwama district by the pro-government gunmen (Ikhwanis) who were led by an Army Major. Three days later, on February 03, his mutilated body was handed over to his family members. The army had alleged that Adv. Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Regoo was a 'Pakistani-trained militant.' Adv Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Regoo's widow claimed that her husband was taken...

Meer Irfan Ali Mohammed (name changed) of Shopian's Kral Chek area is getting ready for the sixth surgery of his daughter scheduled for Friday at a private hospital in the Ompora area of Budgam in central Kashmir. The physically disabled father has spent lakhs of rupees to ensure that his daughter gets well, however, no major success has been achieved so far. In October last year, his daughter was walking towards a shop when a boy from the Aadoo area in Shopian splashed acid at her face and ran away from the spot. But the story dates back to 2020. "The two were about to be married. But the father of the boy refused the proposal of the girl's family owing to their poverty," a family member of the girl said. "The girl's family tried to convince the boy's family, several times, bu...

Around 6 p.m., on Tuesday, she was returning to her home from work. Suddenly, some young boys stopped her and threw the acid on her face and she lay on the street, groaning in pain. Today, the 24-year-old is battling for life with a disfigured face in a hospital in Srinagar. Outside the Intensive Care Unit Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, her father and sisters await her recovery. A resident of Srinagar's downtown area, she worked at a beauty parlor and is the second eldest daughter to a father who is a tailor. "It was a few years ago that she eventually decided to support her family and got a job at a beauty parlour," the survivor's cousin told The Kashmiriyat. “We want stringent punishments for the culprits so that such attacks are not repeated. We want girls of Kashmir to fee...

Insha Mushtaq On Friday, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) officials vandalized and seized the goods of street hawkers in the LalChowk area of central Kashmir’s Srinagar district, citing 'illegal encroachment' as the reason. A video that surfaced on Twitter shows SMC officials impounding the goods of the street hawkers while the street vendors are seen appealing the officials to return their goods. A street vendor, appealing to the SMC officials, can be heard saying, “I am a father of a daughter, have some mercy on me,” while his goods were being confiscated in the SMC van. https://twitter.com/AazanManzoor1/status/1486988982164803585?t=dJRqgqJ2OW_z3E5s7MWpfw&s=19 An SMC official, while impounding the caps from a street hawker, can also be heard saying that even though...

Bhat Yasir A Kashmiri student attempted suicide after he was "unjustly" suspended from a medical college in Bangladesh college. He has been hospitalized since. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat Kashmiri students studying in the same college said that on Wednesday night they were having dinner when they suddenly heard a loud noise. "We went out of the dining hall and saw some students pointing towards the room of this Kashmiri student. We rushed to the room and saw him hanging with the ceiling fan," a student said. The student had to be hospitalized immediately as he had suffered a neckbone fracture. "After he regained senses, he again tried to kill himself in the hospital," he said. The Kashmiri student (name withheld) pursuing MBBS (4th year) at International Medical College (IMC) D...

Meher Qadri Because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five The remnants of pain are but its shadows. It is engraved on us in ways that live within us just beneath the skin always present yet not seen. Sometimes like the lines running through our palms, always gaping back at us. Other times just some fading demon who though unseen is always crouching on our back. The month of January for Kashmir is painted in the scarlet hues of Death. Beginning of a new year for the rest of the world. January is the month of Massacres in Kashmir. With Jagmohan’s ap...

Kounsar Bashir Fahmida Akhtar awaits her husband who is bed-ridden since Sunday after he fell off an electric pole amid snow in Bogund village in the south Kashmir's Kulgam district. Shabir Ahmed Dar, a casual labor with Kashmir's Power Development Department (JKPDD) fell off the pole in Bogund area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. "He had repaired several faulty lines while restoring electricity amid heavy snowfall in the area. After he repaired several lines, he fell down on the ground from an electric pole. He was severely injured and is battling for his life since," Fahmida said. He is among the thousands of Kashmiris engaged by the PDD for years together without regularising their services. They work on meagre salaries of ₹3000-₹7000. Several labours, The Kashmiriyat spoke...