WRITE-UPS

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 ...

June 19 Qazi Shibli   The Nowpora Village of South Kashmir's Kulgam District is in mourning as hundreds of teraful eyes have gathered here to bid farewell to Aijaz Ahmad Bhat who was killed in Army firing yesterday. Government Forces said that the youth threw stones on them and provoked them to fire, however the civilians in the area say not a single stone stone was thrown and Aijaz who was not a part of the crowd who hooted at the army was target fired. Aiman and Deebe besides the dead body of their father/ Zaffar Dar "Where is my father? Why has he not come home yet, I miss him," i heard the Aiman, 2 year old daughter of Aijaz Shouting, while Deeba, another 4 year old daughter is waiting silently, they both have been told that Aijaz has left for work and he will return soon....

May 02 Jahangeer Ganie On Tuesday, Sameer Bhat alias tiger became the thirteenth militant of Drabgam village of South Kashmir's since 90,s who was laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard Drabgam. His family has no regrets and feels proud of his martyrdom. He was killed along with his associate in his native village on Monday afternoon. Class 8th pass, good looking, and native of Drabgam of Rajpora, Sameer joined militant ranks few months before the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani. "After passing his class 8th examinations, Sameer started working in a bakery shop at Pulwama and was several times arrested by security forces over stone Pelting charges," says Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, father of Sameer Bhat alias tiger. Before joining ranks he worked as an over-ground worker to provide logistical ...

(Representational Art) Tawseef Nazir “Ratt Pitt” is a Kashmiri word Symbolic to the nation who only talk, and then talk again and again and then again and again. Indeed all they do is, talk and talk more and in a more specific nomenclature- They are no more than Social Media Comrades- they may come in any disguise, sometimes of an activist as columnists, Reporters, and even supporters of certain causes and Nations, but all they do is talk and talk again and again and again. Other than the fact that they have an exaggerated sagacity of self importance, they are commonly riveted in fantasies of authority, triumph, splendor or vividness; they have irrational prospect of other people, i.e. that everybody’s Moral Right is to unthinkingly obey them. Apart from the fact that they crave con...

March 31 Rouf Bashir Khanday was 20, when he was shot dead by a Joint team of 19RR, SOG of Jammu Kashmir Police and CRPF in Dialgam area of South Kashmir on the intervening night of 31st March and 1st of April. Rouf hails from Dehruna village of Islamabad (Anantnag) District in South Kashmir which was once a nucleus of Pro Pakistan Militants in early 90’s. Last year a civilian named Mudasir Ahmed Chopan was killed in the village about 8 Kilometers distant from the District headquarters of Islamabad (Anantnag). Post the Killing of Burhan Wani on 8th July in South Kashmir around 230 Local Boys have picked up arms. Security Agencies feel there is a difference between present day militants and those of the early 1990s. The ideological conviction of the present lot is stronger than tha...

March 26 On a Sunny day in June in the year 2016, Shahbaz Shafi joined a new generation of militants educated and influenced by the teachings of Islam, in the graveyards of Pulwama in south Kashmir. His family has no regrets and feels proud of his martyrdom. Popularly known as Rayees Kaczroo, a resident of Bellow area of Rajpora in South Kashmir's Pulwama, Shahbaz had left home for Friday prayers and never returned. His father is a shopkeeper and said that Shahbaz was committed to his ideology even at a young age and knew his goal very well. "In the evenings he used to sit with me and discuss a host of issues – political, social, religious, and environmental,” recalled the father. He said his son would often talk of the repression faced by Muslim Ummah in general and Kashmi...