How 11-yr-old daughter fights trauma after father’s killing?
Raqeeba Bano, 33, standing by the curtain pierced by bullets. Photograph by Quratulain Rehbar for The Kashmir Walla
Not many things have changed in...
Pulwama Bloodshed: ‘How long will you live in the grave?’
“How long will they kill such budding flowers?”
questioned Shaheena Akhtar, an eyewitness to the Saturday mayhem in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, while showing...
Speaking from the death room
In an unknown room of shapeless dimensions, darkness haunts; and cries and wails can be heard. Life seems to be crumbling down to nothingness....
“They put my beloved in a pool of blood, unmercifully”
“One, who takes the venom - will die,” said 32-year-old Naseer Ahmad Rather to his brother Jahangir Ahmad Rather, 40, a few days before...
Invitation Cancelled, courtesy Article 35A
Four months ago, twenty-eight-year-old Sajid Majid got engaged to a relative's daughter, following which the date of marriage was set to be on 30,...
“Please, get us out of here”: Detained on Ashura, families long for a meeting
“It feels bad to see your brother in a lockup,” she said outside the police station. “He was crying in front of me, telling me: ‘Please, get us out of here.’”
Citizenship in limbo, children of Pakistan-returned former militants face an uncertain future
Twenty-five-year old Tabeena Mir, not her real name, grew up hearing stories of Kashmir in her modest house of four rooms in Pakistan. She...
Kashmiri teacher’s custodial killing: ‘His killers should die the same way’
Dusk had slipped in. Residents of Awantipora area of Pulwama were about to start their day; mobile phones buzzed with the rumors of the...
“Those who can feel the pain”: Beyond advocacy, the APDP is also a support...
The APDP is a community of survivors who are documenting and campaigning against enforced disappearances and continuing to look for their dear ones since 1994.
How Article 35A scrapping rumor, fresh plea led to protests in Kashmir
On Monday, at around 10 in the morning, the busy streets of Kashmir turned chaotic, just after the rumor of scrapping of Article 35-A...