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Shabir Khan A day after the family of Sopore Youth, killed in Police Custody alleged that the Jammu Kashmir Police paid them one crore to remain silent, the senior Superintendent of Jammu Kashmir Police for Sopore ridiculed the allegations saying that the reports are baseless. ALSO READ: “OUR SON IS INNOCENT, WAS KILLED IN CUSTODY,” SAYS FAMILY OF SOPORE YOUTH The Kashmiriyat broke the news of Irfan Ahmed Dar being allegedly killed in custody on 16th September, days after he had been arrested. The Police claimed that Javed who was an Over groundworker to Militants was found dead under mysterious circumstances, after which a magisterial probe was ordered into the incident. The family of the slain youth has claimed that the authorities are not delaying the report of the inquiry, ...

Waris Shah Peerzada Muhammad Ashraf, 35, the prime accused in a grenade blast incident of 2004 has spent over 16 years in Jail—for the family, however, the road to justice still continues to remain far from reality. The family while speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that despite the bail order of the Principal Session Judge’s bail, Ashraf continues to languish in jail for the past fourteen years. Ashraf, son of Peerzada Ghulam Nabi, a resident of Batagund Verinag, was arrested on December 2006 in connection with a grenade attack that had occurred on 19-07-2004 during a government-sponsored health Mela at Kapran Verinag area of South Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag) district, in which Chief Engineer R&B, including two civilians and some policemen, also lost their life. Ashraf was a student...

Shabir Khan There has been panic since the exchange of heavy gunfire between the Armies of India and Pakistan in several areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu Kashmir, People are scared. The Indian Army said that the Pakistani Army on Friday without any provocation fired towards India's forward posts in which four soldiers of the Indian Army and 6 civilians including an 8-year-old child were killed. Four residential houses were completely destroyed and dozens of others suffered severe damages in Balkote and Kamalkote frontier villages of Uri after Indo-Pak army exchanged gunfire and mortar shells along Line of Control (LoC). The shooting that occurred a day before Diwali resulted in heavy losses in these villages, the list of casualties included a woman who was a mothe...

An 18-year-old passionate writer from a lesser-known village in frontier district of Kupwara has published a maiden book titled 'Apicity Of Pain' and is currently working on a novel and poem book to be released in few weeks. Bilal Ahmad Khan, 18, a student of Political science (BA Honors) enrolled at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) belonging to Dardpora village of Kralpora, Kupwara in north Kashmir has published his maiden book titled 'Apicity of Pain' and is presently working on two more including a novel and a poem. Talking to a local news agency—Kupwara Youth, the young author said: "I have covered all the aspects that matter to a human and guiding the youth to retrospect that will help to come out of the wrongdoings." He said: “I come from a very lesser-known village, Darpora ...

Azhar Shabir "I can't live a moment without you" may seemingly be a line, but it is a complete pledge in itself that a girl had made with a boy to whom she was one in a million. They happened to virtually meet each other on Facebook, yet it was more than real and delightful. Both being readers of Rumi, they held on to love and would usually discuss the fate of the moth willingly setting itself ablaze. The unfortunate end of the moth would even make them cry, and they would console and control each other's tears with the promises they had made in facing every obstacle of their future smilingly. It was this hope that used to keep them awake for the next day, as they believed that 'hopelessness is a complete halt.' Followed by weeks of uncertainty, the Indian Government suddenly, on...

Qazi Shibli "His daughter is growing up, he was picked up on mere suspicion, why is the process of release taking so much of time, What is his crime?" Mohammed Iqbal of Pehlipora Shopian asks while questioning the prolonged detention of Saboor ul Haq. The Government Force personnel knocked 'violently' at the door of Mohammed Iqbal Malla a few days after the abrogation of Article 370 in August last year, looking for Saboor ul Haq, his son. ALSO READ: “NINE MONTHS IN HELL”- FAMILIES BORROW MONEY TO GET THEIR LOVED ONES HOME Amid grief, anger, and longing, today it is been more than a year, Saboor ul Haq picked up during a nocturnal raid on August 09 2019 has been detained under Public Safety Act at Central Jail of Agra in Uttar Pradesh. Though such tragedies, Iqbal says, are ...

Syed Mustafa Ahmed After the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu Kashmir, many changes are visibly felt on the ground. These changes are seen even in the educational sector, particularly in the textbooks of History and Political Science. In Class 9th History book, the chapter “ The integration of Princely States: A Case Study of Jammu Kashmir” has been added this year. It deals with the integration of Jammu Kashmir with India. However, some information is incomplete, misrepresented and projects propaganda that contradicts history, which I am going to try to counter in this article. Firstly, the Standstill Agreement of Jammu and Kashmir was with both India and Pakistan. Pakistan signed the Standstill on August 12, 1947 but India didn’t sign it. India wanted to send an official from ...

Skinder Gull A 20-year-old youth from Awantipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district has managed to generate electricity from a traditional Kashmiri firepot- ‘Kangri’ and charge the mobile phones from shoes. Suhail Ahmad Parray (20), a resident of Chersoo area in Awantipora, his brother Abrar Ahmad Parry (16), & cousin Mazim Ashraf (15), have come up with the invention a few days back, where the bulb lights up after getting heated up from the Kangri. Similarly, mobile phones and batteries could also be seen getting charged from the shoes, which left many in surprise. Suhail Ahmad Parry speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that it took him around twenty days to stabilize the temperature necessary to produce the electricity from the Kangri. "I used basic types of equipments in th...

The Letter was Published by The Kashmiriyat on July 04,2018 Burhan Soab, It all started since you have left, a shining star that was known for your wisdom, compassion and unbelievable patience. We are stunned, shattered with your decision that left us all in pieces. Yet! our courageous parents will stand on their toes and ask for forgiveness to Allah (SWT ). In the meantime they keep gazing at the front gate that our son will show up any time, murmuring to each other do you know anything of him, did you find any clue, where he could be possible, is he eating anything, is he even taking his medicines and what not we have to see them go through in your absence. We wish you were here to see yourself the grave and grim life of your ailing mother and father. Sometimes a person fee...

In this monograph, Talal Asad stretches out new measurements to the investigations on contemporary methods of violence and terrorism, simultaneously deconstructing the liberal discourse on the classes of war and terrorism. The author takes the analysis of suicide bombing and terrorism to another level and asks the reader to think about much deeper questions. "Why is suicide bombing so much more terrifying than other acts of violence? What makes terrorism so much less morally justifiable than other attacks executed in a "just war?" Asad examines terrorism and elaborates on the continuities between secular modernity and its past. Asad addresses whether acts committed in wars are not similarly frightful and ridiculous. This book provocatively tends to these issues and offers ele...