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.
Personality
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.
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 disillusionment created by New Delhi’s ploys; Nyla Ali Khan
Although after the inception of armed insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kashmir in 1989 my parents were confronted with an uncertain future, in which the political fate of Kashmir was unknowable, they sustained their ideals through those difficult times.
why Arif Shahid was killed?
He believed people of Azad Kashmir and people of Gilgit Baltistan were deliberately kept apart by the policy makers of Pakistan. This segregation and policy of divide and rule resulted in misunderstandings and lacked sense of belonging.
Maqbool Butt Quotes -11 sayings of Maqbool Butt
“My only crime is that I have rebelled against the forces of obscurantism, ignorance, greed, exploitation, slavery, nepotism and hypocrisy.”
Krishan Dev Sethi : A witness of the History of JK
The people of that area were oppressed and subjected to worst treatment. Feudalism, landlordism, moneylenders, everything was there. And there was repression from the British government and Maharaja as well. We were in school those days, and this ill treatment did not let us to be mute spectators. We started resistance against this oppression when our age was just around 15 years.
In a conversation with Comrade Krishan Dev Sethi
Frankly, I don’t think both countries will. Even Pakistan, which keeps talking about freedom for J&K, is basically hostile to the idea. After all, Islamabad is only a few miles from the border of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and if J&K becomes independent, Pakistan would find the international border too close to its capital.