Auqib Javeed

2 weeks ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed

Talking to The Quint, the family regretted that the incident 'got buried' under the India-Pakistan border clashes. For decades, 50-year-old Mohammad (name withheld to protect identity) and his wife had journeyed across nearly every hill in Jammu and Kashmir with their livestock. It was the life they had known—simple and tough, but never unsafe. That changed tragically on 4 May, when Mohammad's wife didn't return to their camping site at the foothills of Srinagar’s Zabarwan mountains.

3 weeks ago | himalmag.com | Auqib Javeed

Villagers observe the blown-up family home of Ahsan Ul Haq Shiekh, accused of being involved in the Pahalgam attack. Indian authorities have responded to the attack with collective punishment of suspected militant’s families, demolishing their homes. Shortly after the terror attack in Pahalgam on 22 April, a large number of residents of India-administered Kashmir took to the streets in a protest march – an unprecedented move in over three decades of conflict in the territory.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Zoya Mateen |Auqib Javeed

Shabir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir, has been selling pashmina shawls for more than 20 years. The intricately embroidered featherweight scarves are a favourite with his customers in Mussoorie, a hill town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, where he works. For his buyers, the shawls are a sign of luxury. For Dar, they are a metaphor for home; its traditional patterns layered with history and a mark of his Kashmiri identity.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed

Nitin Jain, a 38-year software engineer from West Bengal, had promised to take his wife to Kashmir for that 'once-in-a-lifetime' trip. For 12 years of their marriage, he couldn't keep his promise. But, on 20 April, when the Jain family landed in Srinagar, that long wait was forgotten—and they rejoiced for what they described as their "most exciting holiday.""We had never seen such a beautiful place—every corner of the Valley is breathtaking," Jain recalled.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed |Rakhi Bose

Talking to The Quint, locals expressed their concern over a section of media trying to spread communal narratives. Amid the cacophony of hate and polarisation on social media in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, a video of a Kashmiri man carrying an injured tourist on his back has gone viral. The man in the video is Sajad Ahmad Bhat, a shawl hawker from Pahalgam.