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After Legends' cricket, J&K eying national winter games, IPL, international cricket

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Buoyed by the success of Legends League Cricket (LLC), the Jammu and Kashmir Government is planning to hold the next season’s national winter games in Kashmir. Besides, efforts are also underway to organise some matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at Srinagar. This, the authorities believe, would bring international cricket back to Jammu and Kashmir after 35 years. According to Nuzhat Jehangir Gul...

What Atal Dulloo’s appointment as Chief Secretary means for J&K’s people

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar The 1989-batch IAS officer Atal Dulloo taking charge as the Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir makes him the third Kashmiri Pandit to become the top bureaucrat of the (now) union territory at a time when the minority community has almost left the land due to turmoil. Dulloo was the senior most in his cadre and his appointment was not out of turn. With age being on his side, Dulloo will have a minimum tenure ...

Pran Kishore 99: The living legend of Kashmir’s broadcasting and fiction

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Born in January 1925 in the densely populated Kashmiri Pandit neighbourhood of Mallapora, Habbakadal, legendary radio voice and actor Pran Kishore is just over a year short of his century. Five years after he retired from the Srinagar Station of All India Radio (AIR), then known as Radio Kashmir Srinagar-, Pranji had to leave the valley when an armed insurgency broke out. He is now settled with his family in Pune....

Wedding rituals of Kashmir’s composite culture began changing after 1990

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar The displacement of Kashmir’s religious minority after the outbreak of an armed Islamist insurgency in 1989 struck a big blow to the valley’s centuries-old composite culture. The Kashmiri Pandits suffered not only loss of life and property but were also bereft of their cultural traditions, lifestyle, language, and the rites and rituals related to their life and death. With time, resident Muslims to...

Zoon Dab: Radio feature on public grievances that was an entertainer and ran for 19 years

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar During the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965, radio was the only medium of mass communication and information warfare. All India Radio’s Srinagar Station, which was until recently named ‘Radio Kashmir Srinagar’ was just 17 years old. In 1964, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the Station and spoke with the then Director Nand Lal Chawla. With the involvement of some local artists—both Hindus ...

Was Pak’s Operation Tupac linked to ‘rigged’ elections in Kashmir?

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Years after Farooq Abdullah resigned as the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and his National Conference (NC) was marginalised and reduced to a soft target in 1990, his political detractors began claiming that the separatist militancy in Kashmir was a consequence of the “massive rigging in the Assembly elections of 1987”. Abdullah’s arch-rival, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, claimed that the Congre...

Dilafroz Qazi set up Kashmir's 1st pvt engineering college against all odds

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar Coming from a modest family of furriers in Srinagar’s Chattabal area, Dilafroz Qazi laid the foundation of the Srinagar School of Management (SSM) in 1988—exactly when the seeds of separatism and violence were sprouting across the Kashmir valley. Investing in management, engineering, and technical education was virtually sailing against the wind. With a bachelor in Law—and no money in hand&md...

G M Mir's tip-offs led of arrest of top ISI officer Col Masood during hey days of Kashmir terrorism

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Magam(Budgam) During his exclusive conversation with Awaz-The Voice at his Magam residence on Srinagar-Gulmarg Road, Padam Shri Ghulam Mohammad Mir aka Moma Kanna said that militants carried out innumerable attacks on him, his family members and relatives, and his properties. “The reason was nothing other than my role in helping the security forces to keep the Indian flag high, establishing a vast netwo...

G M Mir's tip offs led of arrest of top ISI officer Col Masood during hey days of Kashmir terrorism

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz During his exclusive conversation with Awaz-The Voice at his Magam residence on Srinagar-Gulmarg Road, Padam Shri Ghulam Mohammad Mir aka Moma Kanna said that militants carried out innumerable attacks on him, his family members and relatives, and his properties. “The reason was nothing other than my role in helping the security forces to keep the Indian flag high, establishing a vast network of informer...

Padma Shri G M Mir who helped forces end terrorism in Kashmir lives a modest life

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Magam (Budgam) This is the story of how a powerful lobby in Kashmir comprising men and women in politics, bureaucracy, media, and academia was allowed to spread fake narratives for years with the apparent motive of currying favours with pro-Pakistan terrorists and separatists, and it went unchallenged. It’s interesting to note that the two Kashmiris, who were conferred India’s fourth highest civilian ...

How a Kashmiri tribesman foiled Pak's Operation Gibraltar and won over his lady love

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Kashmir’s tourist hub of Tangmarg-Gulmarg in the north-western area of Baramulla district, where unidentified terrorists gunned down head constable Ghulam Mohammad Dar on Tuesday, 31 October, enjoys an unparalleled distinction of civilian service to the Indian nation. The 55-year-old Policeman, whose eldest daughter is engaged to a local soldier of the Indian Army and whose three daughters are students of Army&rs...

"We are finished," Uzmat Gul, second of 7 sisters who are grieving their policeman father's killing

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz/Srinagar In just three hours of Rashmi Ranjan Swain taking over as the Director General of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday, unidentified terrorists shot dead a Kashmiri Policeman who was on leave from his duty to be with his wife and seven daughters in his native village in northwestern Kashmir and prepare for his daughter's wedding due in two months. Terrorists who are believed to be separatists have laid ...

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