Shakir Mir

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Shakir Mir |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Each time Rameez Khan (42) asked about their twins, his wife, Arusha Khan (33), muffles her face with a scarf, struggling to fight back tears. “They are both fine,” she said. For all 11 days that Rameez was admitted inside the ICU of Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu, Arusha had hid from him that their children—the 12 year old twins Zain Ali and Urwa Fatima—were no more.

2 months ago | thequint.com | Shakir Mir

Authorities are scrambling to piece together more information on the attackers involved in the 22 April killings. Days after the devastating attack on tourists in South Kashmir's Pahalgam, sources in the security establishment in Jammu & Kashmir told The Quint that they see the events of 22 April, Tuesday, as a “security lapse and intelligence failure.”They said that there were already intelligence inputs regarding the attack "over the past few weeks", but all of them were generic in nature.

2 months ago | thequint.com | Shakir Mir |Faizan Mir

'We thought someone burst crackers, or maybe a fight had erupted. Later, we saw smoke rising,' said one eyewitness. Rohit Kumar Singh, a tourist from Uttar Pradesh, was just 20 feet from the site of the deadly attack in South Kashmir’s Pahalgam on 22 April, Tuesday. “We didn’t even look over the shoulder to see what was happening,” he told The Quint.

2 months ago | thequint.com | Shakir Mir

The transfers reestablish the LG’s authority over the influential Revenue department, which concerns land in J&K. While the rest of the country was gripped by the spectacle around the passing of the Waqf Amendment Bill, a political crisis was brewing in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) after the Centre-appointed Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha cleared the transfers of 48 middle-rung J&K Administrative Service (JKAS) officers in the Union Territory.

2 months ago | kashmirtimes.com | Shakir Mir

A file photo of young Kashmiri women protesting on Srinagar streets.Photo/Public Domain Published on: 05 Apr 2025, 11:00 pm Follow Us Book: Independent Kashmir: An incomplete aspiration Author: Christopher Snedden Published by: Manchester University Press, June 1, 2021 Pages: 442 Price: Rs 2,702 Front cover of the book "Kashmir An incomplete aspiration" by Christopher Snedden.Photo/Manchester University Press Book Review: Theft Of Holy Relic Demystified Last week, Union Home Minister Amit...