Kupwara, Jul 29: Sunil Raina, a Kashmiri pandit is hopeful of fulfilling his father’s wish of performing a visit to Sharda Peeth, a revered seat of learning for Hindus and Buddhists before India and Pakistan came into being in 1947. Sharda Peeth, a Kashmiri name of Goddess Saraswati now falls in Sharda District of Pakistan […]
Srinagar, Jun 28: Dr Muzaffar Hussain Nadvi, who hails from north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has completed translation of Quran into easy Arabic after working on the same for 14 long years. He started working on the project in 2003 after reading 30 Tafaseer books from different Islamic scholars. O) Muzaffar said that he started this […]
Srinagar, Feb 18: General officer commanding (GOC) of Srinagar based Chinar Corps, Lt. General D P Pandey has said that the “new normal” is becoming the way of life in Jammu and Kashmir and that the truce along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan is desirable for both nations, and the main beneficiaries […]
Muzamil Jaleel The local pro-India parties have come together on one main issue – August 5. They are claiming that they will fight New Delhi’s unilateral decision to take away the special status of the state and downgrade it into two directly ruled Union Territories. If that claim is true, then they will have to […]
Muzamil Jaleel There is a lot of talk about Ladakh (read Leh) managing to unify and exert pressure collectively on New Delhi to re-introduce the protections that were guaranteed under the repealed state subject law and thus save their land, demography etc. It is a fact that the Buddhist unity across all political divides did […]
Srinagar, Sep 24): President of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference party, Sajad Gani Lone in his first exclusive interview to KNS, since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu & Kashmir and his release from detention, speaks about a range of issues from the BJP government’s 5 August 2019 decision to revoke Articles 370, […]
Muzamil Jaleel Though the new domicile order for J&K ostensibly deals only with jobs, it has created a new category of residents of J&K which every Indian citizen can become through a process. The rules to become a J&K domicile issued on May 18 explicitly show that New Delhi wants to speed up the process: […]
When we look at The Kashmir Press web page, it looks like a story frozen in time. Pictures, headlines, and the news text- published on August 4, 2019- fossilized like mummies- as if it was the web page from a different time. It remains so. On August 05, the constitutional status of Kashmir was changed […]
As I write this letter to you, hoping that it will bring about a change that will prevent fathers from shoulder the coffins of their children because of criminal negligence of some doctors, I’m filled with sorrow, grief, rage and above all a feeling that I have failed as a father and as […]
From the point of view of Indian “liberals”, Pakistan is a ‘failed state’ that is only waiting to be annexed as a province by expansionist China. The same impression is touted as an article of faith if one follows what Pakistani liberals write, especially in their angry tweets. It seems Pakistani liberals are desperate […]
