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A Kashmiri boatman with kangri to beat freezing weather in the Dal Lake (Pics: Basit Zargar)

How and why Kashmir is calm over SC verdict on Article 370

Trocolour flying on the cock tower at Lal Chowk, Srinagar

SC judgment has ended a prolonged state of political uncertainty in Kashmir

A panoramic view of the Kauri-Bakal railway bridge on Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line

Will PM Modi travel to Kashmir on a train in Feb-2024?

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Prof Azurdah’s hard journey—from treating cows to becoming a literary giant

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar It is hard to believe that the author of 50 books, winner of the Sahitya Akademi award, and one of the leading Urdu writers in the world, had started his journey of life as a veterinary stock assistant. Mirza Mohammad Zaman Azurdah of Hassanabad, Srinagar, is such a person. Born in Amritsar, he was two years old at the time of India's partition and the resultant displacement of lakhs of people on the groun...

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Gastroenterologist Dr MS Khuroo of Kashmir looked after Saudi King's health

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Gastroenterologist Dr. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo of Sopore was the Director of Kashmir’s super specialty hospital and research center, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) when the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism had turned parts of Kashmir into ‘liberated zones’ in the early 1990s. Khuroo’s fellow villager and eminent CVTS surgeon Dr Abdul Ahad Guroo was abducted and shot dea...

Lok Sabha polls: Srinagar sees a high octane campaign as no member of Abdullah family in fray

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar For the first time in 45 years, no member of the first political family of Kashmir –the Abdullahs – is in the fray from the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency that goes to the polls on May 13, in the fourth phase of the general elections. The constituency has sent three generations of the National Conference founder National Conference Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s family–Begam Akba...

2024 Lok Sabha elections: Sons of two assassinated Kashmiri leaders in the fray

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Over 20 years after the Pakistan-backed terrorists assassinated two prominent Kashmiri leaders -Abdul Gani Lone of the Peoples Conference and Aga Syed Mehdi, a Shia leader, their sons are contesting the parliamentary elections. Sajad Lone,57, is contesting his second Lok Sabha election from Baramulla, while Aga Syed Ruhullah, is contesting from Srinagar as a candidate of the National Conference. Lone...

Is Farooq Abdullah calling it quits?

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar The 87-year old patriarch of the National Conference Dr Farooq Abdullah seems to be hanging his boots after contesting nine Lok Sabha and Assembly elections – and losing only once - in his 45-year political career. This physician-turned politician had returned from London to take over the reins of the outfit founded by his father Sheikh Abdullah in 1977. Three years later when the Sheikh died, he took...

In Kashmir, Para and Rashid facing terror funding charges are contesting elections

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar At least two Kashmiri politicians who are facing charges of links with terrorist organizations and funding their activities in the Valley are contesting the Lok Sabha elections from J&K. They are Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, the Peoples’ Democratic Party candidate nominated to contest from the prestigious Srinagar-Ganderbal constituency, and Engineer Sheikh Abdul Rashid, a former MLA who is currently in De...

In Jammu, Thakur Baldev Singh carries on 100-year tradition of hosting iftar

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Jammu Thakur Baldev Singh, 76, carries on the tradition of hosting Iftar for his neighbors and friends which was set by his grandfather for his Muslim neighbours and friends at the border towns of Akhnoor. Last weekend, Thakur organised a grand vegetarian Iftar feast for 140 guests at his home in the town located on the banks of the Chenab River and close to the India-Pakistan border. Nearly a hundred of Thakur&rsq...

Doda-Udhampur to see major Modi Ka parivar vs INDIA faceoff

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar In Jammu’s Udhampur-Doda constituency, the traditional arena of electoral battles between Rajputs, the Congress party’s prodigal son Choudhary Lal Singh has returned with a fresh challenge for the BJP stalwart Dr Jitendra Singh. Lal Singh rejoined the Congress recently, 10 years after quitting it. With successive victories for the BJP’s Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Medical college professor-turned...

Kashmiri girls design symbols, slogans in heena to ask everyone to vote

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Kashmir is passing through an interesting season: Politicians of all hues are campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections; most Kashmiri are fasting for the month of Ramzan and looking forward to Eid-ul-Fitr; people in hordes are soaking themselves in the spring blooms at the Badamwari and Tulip Garden in Srinagar and markets are picking up with early birds busy shopping for Eid. Tourism officials claim more than ...

Kashmiri girls design symbols, slogans in heena to ask everyone to vote

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Kashmir is passing through an interesting season: Politicians of all hues are campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections; most Kashmiri are fasting for the month of Ramzan and looking forward to Eid-ul-Fitr, people in hordes are soaking themselves in the spring blooms at the Badamwari and Tulip Garden in Srinagar and markets are picking up with early birds busy shopping for Eid. Tourism officials claim more than ...

Is Farooq Abdullah’s NC nervous about facing the Lok Sabha elections?

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar The Faroioq Abdullah-led J&K National Conference which enjoyed a monopoly over Kashmir’s electoral politics for over 50 years is faced with existential threat in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. Bereft of divisive and emotive issues that it used to run its election campaigns on in the past, the party is seeking a ‘referendum’ over its stand on Article 370 in the election. The NC&r...

Why Lok Sabha elections in J&K may surpass all records of voter turnout

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar With six elected MPs representing the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the State had the least visibility in the 543-member Lok Sabha. In a way, the country's highest law-making body was irrelevant for J&K’s voters till 2019 as all the laws made by it did not automatically apply to the State that enjoyed a special status under Article 370 till August 5, 2019. Most of the laws passed by the Indian par...

For 30 years in Kashmir, many unholy acts in the holy month of Ramzan

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar In the last 6 years, two high-profile killings by the terrorists or their frenzied followers have been widely condemned in Kashmir. Both happened in the holy month of Ramazan—around the holiest days and nights of the Lailatul Qadr, the last Friday of the month, and Eid-ul-Fitr. On 22 June 2017, it was the middle of the Lailatul Qadr—the night of seeking forgiveness for sins, the auspicious night wh...

INDIA alliance fails in Kashmir due to inherent NC-PDP rivalry

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar On March 5, Nasir Aslam Wani, vice-president of the National Conference (NC) made it clear that Farooq Abdullah’s party would contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections independently on all three seats in Kashmir. Wani’s announcement meant that NC was not ready for seat sharing with the INDIA alliance constituents -Congress and Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the valley. ...

Who hosted Narendra Modi during his 10-day 'Mission Kashmir' in 1993?

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar A year after hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar along with the then BJP President Murli Manohar Joshi amidst threats from terrorists on Republic Day in 1992, Narendra Modi travelled across the length and breadth of the Kashmir valley without security. The man who hosted and accompanied him - Mohammad Ashraf Hajam aka ‘Azad’ of Hakermulla Budgam - received and ...

Symbolism of PM Modi’s maiden Kashmir visit after Article 370 abrogation

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/jJammu Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 7 visit will be his first one to Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and in his second term in office. It’s happening in a situation where common people are enjoying normal life and terror-related violence, hartals and stone-pelting is a chapter of bygone era in the Valley. He is scheduled to address an official function at Srinagar’s Sher-e-Kashmir ...

10 years after Jammu rally, Modi’s Mission-370 stands accomplished

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Jammu On Tuesday, 20 February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to start the campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Jammu. It’s from here that he had kicked off the campaign for the 2014 elections which saw Modi become India’s Prime Minister. Back then his rally was attended by over one lakh people. Modi’s association with J&K is as old as BJP's (and its earlier Avatars) promi...

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Danish Rinzu's Biopic on Kashmir’s legendary singer Raj Begum is ready

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Excel Entertainment, the renowned Indian studio founded by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, is making a biopic of Kashmir’s pioneer woman singer Raj Begum. The film titled Songs of Paradise is about Begum’s life, her singing, and her struggle in the mid-20th century in a male-dominated Kashmir Saba Azad is playing the young Kashmiri singer. Sources said the film is in the post-production stage and is like...

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Farooq Nazki’s death brings to an end an era of Kashmiri literature

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Jammu The death of the veteran Kashmiri poet and broadcaster Mir Mohammad Farooq Nazki at 83 in Jammu on February 6 ended a glorious period of literature in the Kashmir Valley. With his passing away Kashmir’s literary scene is poorer as many literary giants of the Kashmiri language left the world in quick succession in the last seven years. After Nazki, Shahid Budgami and Prem Nath Shad – the latter has...

Changing Kashmir: From deadly killings to kids’ Vlogging in snowfall

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz On 1 February 2024, Zeeba and Zainab, the 4-year-old twin daughters of Talib Hussain Mir of Kandiwara, Kokernag, Anantnag, who worked with the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, shot a 73-second video while enjoying the season’s first snowfall. It was too mild to give a traditional rhythm to the celebration of the “Barf-e-Nav” across the valley but the cute duo set the internet on fire with their Vlog. “As...

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