Articles
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Gawkadal: Massacre, Impunity and the Architecture of Unaccountability
More than three decades have passed since Indian occupation forces opened fire on unarmed civilians at Gawkadal Bridge in Srinagar, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu…
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Magarmal Bagh, Chilla Kalan — When Indian Bullets Trampled Humanity
Dr. Waleed Rasool On 19 January 1991, Magarmal Bagh area in Srinagar witnessed one of the brutal massacres of unarmed civilians in the history of…
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When Speech Becomes Sedition: The Dangerous Legal Fiction of the Asiya Andrabi Verdict
The recent judgment against Kashmiri leader Mtr. Asiya Andrabi is not merely a flawed legal decision—it is a window into a justice system that has…
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The Gowkadal Massacre of January 21, 1990: A Survivor’s Account
On the frigid morning of January 21, 1990, Farooq Ahmed Wani left home not as a protester but as a Public Health Engineering…
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Mosque Profiling in IIOJK: Grave Breaches of International Law and Crimes Against Humanity
Jammu and Kashmir is a United Nations-recognized disputed territory, whose legal and political status remains unresolved under international law. Numerous UN Security Council resolutions…
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Kashmir and the Criminalization of Dissent
The recent conviction of three prominent Kashmiri women leaders—Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmeeda Sofi, and Naheeda Nasreen—by an Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in New…
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The Day India’s Walls Became Instruments Against Women
A time when political leaders across the world are promising to work for gender parity, an act of vandalism in Gwalior, India, makes it grimly clear…
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Children’s Rights in Times of Conflict: The Case of Kashmir
The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its one hundredth session in Geneva from 12 to 30 January 2026 at a moment of…
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The Mosque and the Panopticon: Religious freedom under siege in Indian occupied Kashmir
In the Kashmir Valley, faith now comes with a barcode. The occupief Jammu and Kashmir Police’s unprecedented surveillance exercise—collecting granular data on every…
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Reservations and Recruitment: A Tool of Disempowerment in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir
The Indian state’s reservation and recruitment policies in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir have long been a subject of contention, particularly in the context…