On the streets of Srinagar, security officers tied black bandannas over their faces, grabbed their guns and took positions behind checkpoints. People glanced out of the windows of their homes, afraid ...

The Indian government’s decision to revoke the semiautonomous status of Kashmir, accompanied by a huge security clampdown, is dangerous and wrong. Bloodshed is all but certain, and tension with Paki...

But this is not it, what we must be concerned with is what happens next. The boys are sullen, they have no known leader as we have ensured that they are leaderless. Consequently, we have no one to spe...

The Kashmir Valley resembled one large prison on Id on Monday, turning a rare occasion of collective celebration into one of collective mourning.Around eight million people were confined to homes as c...

Zubair Rashid has been writing poetry since he was 14 but he couldn’t read his poem on Id coherently on Monday.The voice of the civil service hopeful from Baramulla choked with emotion and his words...

Foreign minister S. Jaishankar on Monday reminded China of its Astana agreement with India to not let disagreements become disputes after his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi had brought up “recent tensi...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Narendra Modi government to heed the voices of different sections.“The outcome of this (decisions on Jammu and Kashmir) is not to the liking of man...

Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said on Monday that Id prayers were offered in all mosques in the Kashmir Valley peacefully. “Today, namaz was offered by the people in every mosque. Namaz...

The Kashmir conflict has cast its shadows on all facets of everyday life in the Valley, affecting the foundations of social, economic and political institutions. It has had a deep impact on the psycho...

In the run-up to the bolt-from-the-blue move to amend Article 370, scrapping Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, both the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party machinery led by the Union home mi...