Ajaz Ashraf, Freelance Journalist Profile

Articles

Why Israel will never have peace

5 days ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

Israeli security forces and first responders gather at the site of an Iranian strike that hit a residential neighbourhood in the Ramat Aviv area in Tel Aviv yesterday.
Who would say ‘no caste’ in Census

1 week ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A substantial number of poor individuals from lower castes reporting ‘no caste’ will blur the picture of the link between caste and life chances.
Have you read Zahid Rafiq?

2 weeks ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

Security personnel stand guard outside Eidgah ground as people arrive to offer prayers at Aali Masjid on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir on June 7.
Three Muslim writers and a colonel

3 weeks ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

(Clockwise from top left) Basharat Peer, journalist; Ali Khan Mahmudabad, academic. Pics/Wikimedia Commons; Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. Pic/PTI; Booker Prize-winning author Banu Mushtaq.
Channel to solution in Kashmir

1 month ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A rainbow appears in the sky after heavy rainfall near the Line of Control in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, on May 24.
Questions on Indo-Pak clashes

1 month ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

T-shirts featuring ‘Operation Sindoor’ on display at a store in Ludhiana, Punjab on May 17, ten days after the Indian armed forces targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Media in the time of war

1 month ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

The government’s attack on independent media began soon after April 22, with the blocking of the YouTube news channel 4 pm and news portal The Wire, apart from 8000 X handles.
Normalcy can’t be Kashmir’s fate

1 month ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A local girl sits on a bench at a marketplace as paramilitary soldiers keep guard along a street in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on May 4.
Challenging Hindutva: Voices of Resistance in India

1 month ago | theindiaforum.in | Ajaz Ashraf |Rollo Romig |Rahul Bhatia |Nirupama Subramanian

“India under Modi” is a much discussed subject. More than a decade has passed since Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to victory in the 2014 election. He has since led the party to two more terms in office, in 2019 and 2024, even though the BJP did not win enough seats to form a government on its own in the last election. In this long decade, India has changed in many ways. Some would say, changed beyond recognition.
Kashmir: A graveyard of clichés

2 months ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A protest is held against the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 lives were lost, in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, on April 27.