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Articles by Iqbal Kirmani
In Defence Of BAB And His Cartoons
National In a situation where Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti were under arrest, and journalists were being raided, expecting BAB to make cartoons about those who put them behind bars on allegations that were collective humiliation of people. Even the political parties were silent. Why to point out only BAB? Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Did Kashmir's ‘Islamist’ Voters Turn Secular Nationalists In Three Months?
National If Engineer Rashid's win in June was indeed an Islamist triumph, then Omar Abdullah should be a great influential secular preacher who has been able convert people en masse towards his party's secular agenda in three months Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid gestures towards crowd during a public rally at Baramulla. Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid gestures towards crowd during a public rally at Baramulla.
Engineer Rashid Fails To Replicate Lok Sabha Success In J&K Assembly Elections
Elections Engineer Rashid, who was anticipated to change the poll dynamics in the Valley, failed to make an impact in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections 2024. Engineer Rashid at Baramulla rally | Photo: Yasir Iqbal Engineer Rashid at Baramulla rally | Photo: Yasir Iqbal Only four months ago, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, known as Engineer Rashid, contested in the Lok Sabha elections from behind bars and made headlines by defying the odds.
Playing wheelchair basketball to survive in conflicted Kashmir
In Kashmir, wheelchair basketball is giving many people hope, a chance to live, to fight back against long odds, and above all, a chance to be equal. Tragedy might have struck them at different stages of life and in different forms, but the game joins them together. “Life doesn’t end, it only transforms,” said Insha Bashir, a 27-year-old wheelchair basketball player from Kashmir. Insha fell from the second floor of her under-construction house in the Budgam district of Kashmir.
She told court she married for love. Parents say no
SRINAGAR: A Sikh by birth, Manmeet Kour Bali converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man. Her parents objected to a marriage outside their community and filed a police complaint against her new husband. In court last month, she testified that she had married for love, not because she was coerced, according to a copy of her statement reviewed by The New York Times. Days later, she ended up in New Delhi, married to a Sikh man.
She said she married for love. Her parents called it coercion.
By Sameer Yasir, Emily Schmall and Iqbal Kirmani The New York Times | Jul 20, 2021 at 9:02 AM SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Manmeet Kour Bali had to defend her marriage in court. A Sikh by birth, Bali converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man, Shahid Nazir Bhat. Her parents objected to a marriage outside their community and filed a police complaint against her new husband.
She Said She Married for Love. Her Parents Called It Coercion.
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Manmeet Kour Bali had to defend her marriage in court. A Sikh by birth, Ms. Bali converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man. Her parents objected to a marriage outside their community and filed a police complaint against her new husband. In court last month, she testified that she had married for love, not because she was coerced, according to a copy of her statement reviewed by The New York Times. Days later, she ended up in India’s capital of New Delhi, married to a Sikh man.
Suspicion about vaccination videos fuels attacks on health workers in Kashmir.
Administrating a vaccine this month to a farmer in the village of Minnar, north of Srinagar, in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.Credit...Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press June 18, 2021, 6:36 a.m. ET SRINAGAR, Kashmir — As the Indian government struggles to expand a Covid-19 vaccination program dogged by shortages and bureaucratic missteps, its health workers are facing another challenge: attacks by residents.
Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Kashmiri Separatist, Is Dead at 77
those we’ve lost He was a close aide to the most powerful Kashmiri separatist leader for 50 years, but he was arrested a year ago and imprisoned. He died in a hospital of the coronavirus. Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai favored merging India’s predominantly Muslim Kashmir region with Pakistan.Credit...Faisal Khan May 10, 2021, 4:57 p.m. ET This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.
Top Kashmiri militant is killed, sparking protests and rage
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Top Kashmiri Militant Is Killed, Sparking Protests and Rage
Over years of fighting, Riyaz Ahmad Naikoo recruited scores of young Kashmiris in an armed quest for independence from India. His death has set off a fresh wave of unrest. Indian Army soldiers in the Pulwama district on Wednesday, where a senior leader in a militant group was shot dead.
Geelani Says He Spoke to Burhan Wani Days Before He Died
On 18 July 2016, the journalist Iqbal Kirmani organised an interview with Syed Ali Shah Geelani, one of the most prominent and powerful separatist leaders in Kashmir. The questions were sent to Geelani, who has been under house arrest, and the interview was recorded on a mobile phone. The identity of the person who asked Geelani the questions that Kirmani had sent him, has been concealed for his protection. The recorded interview was then handed back to Kirmani.
200 cyber gamers from across Kashmir enjoy thrills of knockouts at two-day championship
Aquib said 'knockouts are thrilling because the player does not get second chance'. The third edition of Kashmir's only cyber gaming event that saw participation of as many as 200 cyber gamers from across valley concluded Sunday with gamers from Srinagar emerging as winners. Aqib Ashraf and Amir Sofi from Srinagar grabbed the winning title at the two-day Kashmiri Cyber Games Championship held at a local restaurant at Lal Chowk in the summer capital.
Ghalib, kehwa and fusion of rhythms make evening memorable for music buffs at this Srinagar cafe
Journalists, academecians, and young artists joined the audience who demanded that the event be extended for an hour. Emotions ran high on frosty Saturday evening when four young musicians enthralled a gathering of music-lovers by the bund of river Jhelum at a private cafe ‘Goodfellas’ in the city heart Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
Removal of CRPF bunker after 25 years of unrest cheers up Old city residents in Srinagar
“Grenades, mine blasts and firing incidents became a usual affair and many of us sold off properties. Some closed their shops.” Farooq Ahmad, a goldsmith in Kawdara locality of Old City in Srinagar, downed the shutter of his shop in 1990 only to reopen it eight years later. “There was a huge risk involved in setting up business in this market,” he recollects while showing marks of bullets and grenade sharpnel around the shop.
Anger brims among flood survivors in J&K as govt releases revised survey assessing damage
“It’s a cruel joke. They promised Rs 9 lakh for fully damaged homes, later reducing compensation to Rs 5 lakh. Now, it has been reduced to Rs 3 lakh." Hajirao Bano, a resident of Rajbagh locality, one of the worst hit areas in Srinagar during September floods last year, clearly remembers how the gushing deluge of water damaged her abode. “The floods were horrifying and aftermath was worse.
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