Highways To Hell

The title of the Editorial in the Kashmir Images says it allHighways To Hell Kashmir’s roads are becoming highways to hell. The staggeringly high traffic fatality rate attests to this in a pronounced manner. There is hardly any day when somebody doesn’t die on our...

Perils of Outsourcing the Resistance Movement

Wajahat argues for charismatic resistance leadership but can such a leadership really succeed where Pakistan and religious warriors have failed?(Mr. Wajahat Ahmad, 30, was born in Anantnag. He went to the Montessori school, followed by the Islamia Hanifya College,...

Hidden Treasures of Kashmir

Akhtar and Aijaz explore the hidden beauty of Kashmir valley(Mr. Akhtar H. Malik, 31, was born in Khag,Budgam district. He attended the Government Higher Secondary School in Khag, and completed his B.Sc. from the Amar Singh College in Srinagar. He has a Master’s...

Cause and Effect

When religious opportunists politicize morality, social freedom is the first victim. Two inter-related events that happened in Srinagar and Sopore on August 24, 2009, followed by a thought provoking editrial in the Kashmir ObserverMirwaiz Paints Alarming Picture Of...

Kashmir’s Exports Suffer

Global recession is bad news for Kashmir’s traditional handicraft industriesGlobal recession impacts Kashmir handicrafts, exports dip by41%Rashid Paul (Rising Kashmir)Srinagar: The global economic slowdown has caused a dip of more than 41 per cent in Kashmiri...

State of Education in Kashmir

Naseem reflects on the poor quality of education in Kashmir(Syed Naseem Zafar, 40, was born in Sopore and raised in Bandipora. He completed his high school and higher secondary education from Government schools in Bandipora. He joined the Amar Singh College, Srinagar,...