“Was shot dead while uncle was showing ID card”: Family of 26-yr-old civilian killed...
“He was not a militant. He was innocent. Innocent! Innocent! My brother was innocent, and they killed him.”
“Shoved gun barrels in mouths, tied civilians to tree”: A ransacked Budgam village
When the troops raided their neighbours, “my father and I locked our door, and hid in the attic,” says 12-year-old Muntazir Ahmad Mir. “The forces kept saying, ‘Saalo, baahar niklo!’”
Clampdown’s ghost haunts Kashmiris in another communication gag
The trademark move of communication gag came after the operational commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Riyaz Naikoo, was killed in a gunfight in Pulwama.
Pellet-hit, bloodied, face with no name: Inside hospital after Pulwama gunfight
Nobody knew his name. His bandaged face was soaked in blood; he couldn’t speak either—the blood had dried up and sealed his lips.
In lockdown, Shopian families’ quest to bring buried militants back home
The families of two militants, who were killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Shopian, south Kashmir, on Friday, will be traveling...
In Kashmir, a militant for six days
Less than a week later, his body returned home in a shroud, along with a caravan of hundreds of young men.
How life for a student changed since Pulwama attack?
Last year, on 14 February, a 19-year-old Kashmiri militant, affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammad, rammed an explosive-laden Maruti Eeco into a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy of seventy-eight vehicles in Lethpora, Pulwama.
Madhosh Balhami: ‘My verses are witness to Kashmir’s history’
The story of Madhosh Balhami, a poet who lost the work of his lifetime in a gunfight in March 2018, is a journey of a Kashmiri, and Kashmir together.
Cold childhood, begging meals, and weighing odds
“At first, I was really ashamed. But now, I have accepted that I’m doing this. I'm begging. It is for my children.”
The portrait of a family under lockdown: “We will die of hunger”
On the outskirts of downtown Srinagar, in Zaldagar, Waseem Ahmad Balla’s family of five lives in one room and a kitchen. Sitting at the...