Mohsin Majeed Shah was one among the detained minor boys. He had a torture mark on his forehead, right between the eyebrows. His tiny hands cuffed as a policeman pushed him between the groups of men who stood gazing in...
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Kashmir’s handcuffed children
The five children looked distraught. Handcuffed, burly policemen hushed them inside the court premises Tuesday afternoon. They looked pale and had visible torture marks. People, many of them lawyers, inside the premises just gazed in distress as the children moved.
Mohsin Majeed Shah was one among the detained minor boys. He had a torture mark on his forehead, right between the eyebrows. His tiny hands cuffed as a policeman pushed him between the groups of men who stood gazing in...
Mohsin Majeed Shah was one among the detained minor boys. He had a torture mark on his forehead, right between the eyebrows. His tiny hands cuffed as a policeman pushed him between the groups of men who stood gazing in...
Studying at prison; appearing in chains
As standard 10th students rush towards their examination centre at the historic Islamia School in the heart of the Old City, Shahbaaz Manzoor Khan, 16, who is also appearing, is brought handcuffed like a ‘criminal’.
Shahbaaz, who hails from Gojwara, has been in police detention for over a month before the annual 10th standard examination began in the Kashmir valley.
On the morning of September 8, this year, when Shahbaaz was still asleep, a pose of 75 police vehicles stood outside the...
Shahbaaz, who hails from Gojwara, has been in police detention for over a month before the annual 10th standard examination began in the Kashmir valley.
On the morning of September 8, this year, when Shahbaaz was still asleep, a pose of 75 police vehicles stood outside the...
Littered shells kill 15 people in Kashmir this year
With the death of a teenage boy and a middle-aged man in frontier Kupwara district on Tuesday, the death toll due to littered shells in the Kashmir valley, since the beginning of the year, has reached to fifteen.
Watching his neighbour hammer the scrap cost death for Mudasir Ahmad Khan, 14, yesterday in the afternoon in Maidanpora village of the district. The scrap vendor, Ali Mohammad Bhat, 45, too could not survive the explosion.
The incident took place about half kilometer from a...
Watching his neighbour hammer the scrap cost death for Mudasir Ahmad Khan, 14, yesterday in the afternoon in Maidanpora village of the district. The scrap vendor, Ali Mohammad Bhat, 45, too could not survive the explosion.
The incident took place about half kilometer from a...
Kalaroos: Where dead have number
The first one reads “Number 1, Martyred on August 24, 2009, Jawansaal (Young)”, the second one reads “Number 2 “Martyred on August 24, Safaid Dhadi Wala Bhodha (white bearded old man)”. Scattered between few graves that have traditional tombstones, there are many that have tin plates inserted on top. Numbers and scanty details of the appearance of dead is all that is known about the people who lay burried.
The caretakers of ‘Martyrs Graveyard’ here, situated in Lolab alongside...
The caretakers of ‘Martyrs Graveyard’ here, situated in Lolab alongside...
Chachal: Where a blind guards unknown dead
Atta Mohammad Khan, 65, doesn’t know the dead or their names. He remembers them by the ‘bullet wounds and torture marks’. After burying over 230 unknown people, Khan, the lone caretaker of Chachal graveyard in Uri’s Bimbyar village is an exhausted man. His old eyes have lost sight, yet a look into the past makes tears roll. These tears that shine on his cheeks hold the secret to the unmarked graves where nameless dead dubbed as militants lay buried.
From a year-old girl to people as...
From a year-old girl to people as...
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