In Jammu and Kashmir, a new department opens to register land transactions – and it’s sparked anger

The decision has reinforced one of the Valley’s most acute fears: that recent legal changes are aimed at altering the demography of the Muslim-majority region.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 30, 2019 · 09:00 am

Shutters down: How Kashmir has kept up a slow-burning protest since Article 370 was revoked

This time, the Valley showed its anger not by pouring out into the streets but by staying in.

Ipsita Chakravarty

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Safwat Zargar

· Nov 29, 2019 · 09:00 am

Khalida Shah interview: ‘Every Kashmiri leader should think of uniting. That includes separatists’

An interview with Khalida Shah, president of the J&K Awami National Conference, who says she has been under house arrest since August 5.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 27, 2019 · 09:30 am

J&K: Journalists covering protests in Srinagar allege they were beaten up by police

One of the journalists said the police repeatedly asked him why he was taking pictures of the demonstrations.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 01, 2019 · 09:30 pm

His detention order was lifted but this 14-year-old Kashmiri had to spend two more weeks in jail

The J&K administration branded him a ‘security threat’, detained him under the Public Safety Act and sent him to a prison in Uttar Pradesh.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 01, 2019 · 05:51 pm

‘Kashmir has changed’: Deadly attacks have sent migrant workers fleeing the Valley

Residents say this is the first time in three decades of conflict that workers from other states have been targeted.

Safwat Zargar

· Nov 01, 2019 · 09:00 am

In Kashmir, the family of a boy killed on August 5 is still trying to prove he died

There was a funeral. There is a grave. But there is no death certificate for a 17-year-old who died fleeing CRPF personnel.

Safwat Zargar

· Oct 27, 2019 · 09:00 am

J&K government orders abolition of independent state commissions from October 31

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, will come into effect from that day, splitting the state into two Union Territories.

Safwat Zargar

· Oct 23, 2019 · 10:15 pm

The last election of J&K state: Meet four candidates in the fray

Three are in exile from their villages.

Safwat Zargar

· Oct 22, 2019 · 09:00 am

Before the phones came back to life, Kashmiri families could not even mourn their dead

Sad tidings reached too late. And death certificates could not be handed out under an internet blackout.

Safwat Zargar

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Ipsita Chakravarty

· Oct 17, 2019 · 09:00 am

J&K government misled Supreme Court about Srinagar media centre timings, say journalists

The government made the erroneous claim in its response to a writ petition filed in the top court by ‘Kashmir Times’ Editor Anuradha Bhasin.

Safwat Zargar

· Oct 15, 2019 · 11:44 pm

Farooq Abdullah’s sister, daughter among women detained after protests break out in Srinagar

Among those detained were Farooq Abdullah’s daughter Safiya Abdullah, his sister Suraiya Abdullah, and Hawa Bashir, the wife of former J&K chief justice.

Safwat Zargar

· Oct 15, 2019 · 02:29 pm