Fahad Shah

Fahad Shah is a journalist and writer. He is the founder and editor of The Kashmir Walla magazine and has written extensively on politics, human rights, culture, and media for various international publications. In 2020, he was nominated for the RSF Press Freedom Prize for Courage and in 2021 he won the Human Rights Press Award.

Can Kashmir’s electoral politics revive?

It is likely that the third-front could end up strengthening the three regional parties whose top leadership remains in detention.

Changed Kashmir, since 2016

On 8 July 2016, at evening, I was informed that Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander Burhan Wani was shot dead in a brief gunfight in south Kashmir’s Bamdoora village. The...

Talks or no talks, BJP’s target is upcoming election

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the last Lok Sabha elections with a whopping majority, the new central government looks keen on continuing its stronger policy towards Kashmir...

Why Zakir Musa’s ideology in Kashmir may not end with his killing?

Supporters of Zakir Musa outside his house in Dadsara village of South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Friday as his body arrives. Photograph by Vikar Syed for The Kashmir Walla On...

Victoria Schofield: ‘Another attack, more Indo-Pak clashes, need to talk on Kashmir’

https://www.facebook.com/thekashmirwalla/videos/2339358166351617/ Victoria Schofield, author of "Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War", first time visited Kashmir in 1981 to research on a book and continued to follow the...

Cold polling and an ice-cream seller from Bareilly

Making his way through the deserted roads of Arwani area of South Kashmir, at around 11am, twenty-year-old Neem Chand paddled his colorful freezer-laden bicycle cart from his rented home,...