Posts By Mir Basit Hussain
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2.0KIn Depth‘As per sources reports, leaked circulars’: The new panic buttons in Kashmir
A slew of circulars in the backdrop of the additional deployment has become a new alarm in the valley. Even as police...
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5.4KIn Depth
Kargil War@20: How Kashmir’s four seasoned scribes covered the high-altitude battle
Twenty years ago, on this day, South Asia’s first ‘live’ war officially came to an end in the rugged terrains of Kargil....
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2.1KPolitics
Back in Delhi, Amit Shah walks his talk on Kashmir
A day after he concluded his two-day valley visit, Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the bill on Reservation and a resolution on...
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3.3KDisaster
Srinagar’s sordid saga: How Bemina choked the city
A slew of summertime flood predictions cast a looming shadow on Srinagar where battle for spaces has long turned flood basins into...
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2.2KPolitics
Red and Saffron winning colours in JK; Green fades in angry bastion
While BJP maintained its status quo in Jammu, five years after it ascended to Delhi throne, it’s the grand old party National...
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6.3KConflict
Hawal Massacre turns 29: ‘Can’t forget the expressions on the faces of the fallen’
This day, 29 years ago, lanes of Downtown Srinagar were flooded with mourners after the assassination of their ‘beloved’ cleric Mirwaiz Maulana...
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2.6KDisaster
Srinagar’s sordid saga: Dwelling in disaster-prone areas
2014 did to Kashmiris what many years of battered conflict couldn’t do. Such a shocker however, has not served as a wakeup call....
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4.1KGovernance
Of coups, plots and Sheikh Abdullah: A Kashmiri professor’s ‘tell-it-all’ book
Be it Sangh Parivar’s anti-special status crusade or the dusted autonomy war-cry, a shy-soft-spoken professor of the Kashmir University captures the unreported...
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2.1KConflict
Highway ban: It’s a no-brainer, even ‘Army, CRPF, JKP not in favour’
After New Delhi was likened with Nazi Germany over its controversial decision to partially ban civilian movement on Highway in Jammu and...
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3.1KIn Depth
Why deafening silence over 1954 Order Amendment exposes hypocrisy of Kashmir’s unionist camp
When Governor Satya Pal Malik lately extended amendment in the 1954 Presidential Order, memories of the controversial Jagmohan-I era returned to haunt...
