Zaffar Meraj telling the Untold Story of Muhammad Maqbool Butt
It was one of those chilly evenings of winter of 1984 and I, as usual, was trying to gather news reports for next day’s issue of AINA which I was associated with, then.
Kashmiriat
Kashmiri Journalist Musarat Zehra won another International award
A female photographer has been awarded an international award for exposing India’s state oppression and atrocities against women in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Bungus Valley – Unexplored Himalayan charm Jammu Kashmir
Over the years, this valley has remained unexplored but now it is coming up as one of the most exotic places of Kashmir.
An open letter to Senator Joe Biden, US Presidential Candidate E-2020 from Dr Toqeer Gilani
The longest running dispute needs your urgent attention. Help people of Jammu Kashmir State to be free.
An open letter to Senator Joe Biden, Presidential Candidate for US Election 2020 on 244th Independence Day of United States of America
Settle us first & ‘Stop issuing domicile certificates’ KP’s
Migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday demanded rehabilitation and return to their homeland before domicile certificates are issued to others in Jammu and Kashmir.
Maqbool Butt biography – From birth to death
Last year Iftikhar Gilani, a Delhi based Kashmiri journalist who spent ten months in Tihar wrote in his book that Maqbool Butt’s grave in prison has been built over. There are two other graves waiting for the body of Maqbool Butt.
Maqbool Butt: From birth to death (A Brief Biography)
“I was a good speaker. Used to do lots of strikes. Like most of Kashmiri citizens, we also had a great interest in Plebiscite Front. From the start, we had a clear aim before us. One benefit of our strikes in college was that the government took over the control of the college”.
The Political Philosophy of Maqbool Butt
He is also referred to as saying ‘If Indian authorities of occupation think that by hanging me they can crush the Kashmir struggle they are mistaken. The struggle actually will start after my hanging.”
Jammu Kashmir: Even there is no normalcy in Jammu
The Indian government claims that the situation in the occupied territory was under control but as per media reports, the presence of barbed wires in every chowk of the Jammu city proves that everything is not normal.
Robert Thorpe and the colonial narrative of Jammu Kashmir History
Disregarding the contribution of local shawl weavers, artisans and labourers and exaggerating Mr Thorpe who wasn’t in principle against occupation per se is a case of distorting history.