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Remembering Gaw Kadal Massacre, Jan 21, 1990
By Muhammad Faysal It has been more than twenty years of the gateway to our road of the massacres. It was this day, twenty one years ago, when the youngsters couldn’t stand anymore at the crossroads. When people couldn’t bear the humiliation anymore and they came out without any fear. When the shackles of forcible enslavement were twisted and cracked. When the rivers knew they would be flowing with blood. When the graveyards knew they would … Read entire article »
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Letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Dear Sir, I would like to draw your attention to a gross misuse of law and public office by state officials in the Custodian and Police department that has resulted in the forced homelessness of an elderly couple. This matter is now currently sub judiciary but I have highlighted those aspects of the problem that ought to be addressed by your office to safeguard the reputation of the state machinery. Before I wrote this letter, I was advised by most of my friends that I was wasting my time as nothing is going to change by writing this letter in a state which has legendary reputation in corruption, mass graves, disappearances, injustice and human rights abuses. But I decided to write this letter with this believe that anyone with a shred of conscience … Read entire article »
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KU and theory of relativity
Naseer A Ganai How much a flower costs in Kashmir University? This strange question by a research scholar of the University left us baffled. “It costs around Rs 50,” he said. Then he explained the reasons. “The University over the years has employed large number of watch and ward staff, gardeners to look after vanishing University gardens that one gardener gets one plant to take care of. By that standard I think one flower costs Rs 50,” he said. I was surprised by the discovery. Then he started talking about other discoveries. With few exceptions, he said, all Deans, Head of Departments, Professors, Associate professors have employed at least four of their relatives in the University. Some have even more. “But figure four is an average,” he said. They also post their distant … Read entire article »
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The shackles of slavery will break: Aala Fazili
By Abdul Aala Fazili My dear brothers, sisters. Assalaamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu, Allah is the most merciful and Allah is the All Knowing. At the outset I would like to congratulate all of us for our steadfastness and sacrifices which Alhamdulillah are bearing fruits now. There is no need to be in anxiety and despair about the success of our freedom struggle. I have this total and farthest belief; we will finally achieve freedom – Insha’Allah. Success, my dear friends is not an event, it is a process – it is a path, which we need to tread on so that we reach our destination – freedom. Alhamdulillah, the unflinching resistance of our young protesters and nation as a whole has set the movement into an irreversible motion on the path of success. The … Read entire article »
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Kashmir at War: Ather Zia
By Ather Zia Since 1947, Kashmir has been subjected to three full scale wars between India and Pakistan. The last one occurred as the two nations were poised to become nuclear powers. Until the late 80s, the nature of tension in the valley between these full scale battles can be viewed as latent violence. This period was dogged by rigged elections, corruption, dissent, and awry political coalitions, which led to shaky governments. It was in 1989 … Read entire article »
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The Son of Africa Claims A Continent’s Crown Jewels: John Pilger
By John Pilger On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way. Obama’s decision is described in the press as “highly unusual” … Read entire article »
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