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February 13 An early morning encounter, a late funeral, thousands marching here and there, streets filled with tear smoke shells- Kashmir is witnessing a new cycle of deaths, 2019 is no different from 2018, till 13 February 32 Militants have been killed during various Anti Militancy operations in Kashmir. The past three days have seen the killing of eight Locals boys, who had joined Militant outfits the last year, one Hilal, killed today in Anti Militancy operation by Indian Government Forces was longest surviving among them. Hilal Ahmed of yaripora, as per Locals of Yaripora, where he hailed from, had joined Militancy in 2015, A diploma holder in Physiotherapy, Hilal joined Lashkar e Taiba under the command of Majid Zarger. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that Hilal was a close as...

January 28 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Penology resorted to circumvent the crafty rather than to any a real born issue within a facade of  "Gender justice & Right to Equality " finally  script to victimology of the Institution of Marriage itself. Pitching high on Talak instead scanning the aftermath of  termination of Nuptial knot be to which otherwise responsible host of factors from illiteracy, economic upheavals, psychological maladjustment, etc more connected to sociological tornadoes rather than to any cause  as such  exfacie embark upon an "issue"  let to born from 'No issue". Same raise voice over the chapters and Institution of wisdom itself be in one form or the other throughout the country. Destructive to very basics of Matrimonial chapters which otherwise stand born on p...

January 28 Mohammed Zia The renunciation of the Indian Administrative Service by Shah Faesal to join politics doesn’t seem quite the supreme sacrifice it is being made out to be. After all, many have used the administrative services as a stepping stone to positions of greater power. But the reasons Shah Faesal has cited for giving up his job lay bare the fact that, unlike a certain novice from earlier times, the former IAS officer is a seasoned politician already. A man who spent years preparing for the civil services (no cakewalk exam) has suddenly woken up to the “marginalization and invisiblisation of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing them to second-class citizens”? Surprisingly, how Faesal could have skipped the references to the ...

January 26 Upon being told that some media men had come, Shams ul Haq's father called one of us and questioned the media for relating Shams ul Haq who was killed recently during an encounter, to his IPS brother. "We know this earns you good money, but you cannot create problems for us," he said adding, "media men sitting in their cozy offices do not know how many problems it created for them." The educated youth like Dr. Shams-ul-Haq Mengnoo choose armed struggle only due to the atrocities of forces, said slain militant’s relatives at Sugan where thousands of mourners continue to throng his residence. Shams-ul-Mengnoo, a resident of Sugan village of Shopian district who was pursuing Bachelors Degree in Unani Medicine and Surgery from a Government College in Zakura Srinagar was ...

January 22 Shams ul Haq Mengnoo is likely one of the three slain Militants in Shermal encounter that raged early morning on Tuesday. When the younger brother of an IPS officer went missing at the end of May last year, it was feared that he could have joined a Militant group. This was confirmed a few days later that Shams-Ul-Haq Mengnoo is now a part of militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. On the second death anniversary of slain Hizbul commander Burhan Wani, the group released photos of its new recruits and Shams was one of them. In the image, he is seen holding an assault rifle and a holstered pistol. A resident of Dragad area in Shopian district, Shams is the brother of IPS officer Inam Ul-Haq-Mengnoo, who is serving outside the J&K cadre. Shams was pursuing his studies ...

Rasheed has been a daily guest at home for more than twenty years. Hailing from Marwah valley in Kishtawar, Rasheed had been here in the Islamabad township for more than twenty years now, earning his livelihood. He recently shared a story with me about his visit to an emergency hospital a few years ago. He had a painful medical condition. The emergency room staff not only did not treat her pain, but he recalled, “They treated me like I was just trying to get pain meds out of them. They didn’t try to make any diagnosis or help me at all, they called me a 'Gujjar' and said I smelled bad.” Rasheed's story is not a solitary case, however, thousands of such stories illustrate the negative assumptions and associations we can label as racism, but “most physicians are not explicitly racist a...

January 19 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Since questioning, you said, is welcome, i hope i am not labelled as an Indian Agent. Experimenting ideas, actions and reactions , born raw, as not drawn in terms of understandings of Research and Analysis, things get entangled and the results are fore in the shape of rowdy tempests. Situations do run all scary when the same are mistaken as an important component of any a struggle. Nothing erroneous to witness the end result of falling in such a precarious , scary situations, trembling one  to let energies fall in a whirl pool of crisis  where in  faculties of exposition of mirror  gets all hazy and  so let sanity to  fear to tread.  Not inevitable on confronting any a State hegemony, the resistant forces stand to face on every front a befitting...

January 16 Insha, a South Kashmir girl shined brighter and managed to bring glory to the valley with a Gold medal, and proved the daughters are no less than sons. Coming from a conflict bound region that is often in news for Encounters and cordon and Search operations, Insha Sitara has brought laurels to her family by winning the 55+ KG category from 64th SGFI National Level Belt Wrestling U-19 championship at Belagavi, district of South Indian state, Karnataka. She says that it is tough to focus on your dreams, in a conflict region, when conflict is brewing on your head most of time. "But my dreams, my passion and my zeal for achieving my dreams, has been an inspiration," she told The Kashmiriyat. ALSO READ: Meet Azmat Ali- Woman with a Mission to Save Kashmiri Culture Insh...

January 16 Haseeba Hussain Have you ever read a book that presented a new message to you each time you opened it? No matter how often you revisit the pages, there is a new lesson learned, a fresh takeaway to reflect on. The Quran is like that. You can read it over and over again, and each time, a new verse hits you—or an old verse affects you in a new way. There have been moments in the past where I was uncertain of the future, very frightened at what was to come. Am I prepared? How will I handle it? Am I good enough? The thoughts swirled around in my head over and over, and they kept me awake at night. There was technically no way to know the answer to these questions until I was in the thick of the future situation, and obviously by then it would be too late. These are the types...