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Award-winning artist Maqbool Jan is one of a handful still practising the ancient artform, but without government help he fears it could be lostKashmir’s ancient papier-mache artworks are famous throughout the world. The art form is a staple of the lux…
Read MoreSon of Syed Ali Shah Geelani alleges police in Indian-controlled area snatched body and carried out burial without family presentPolice in Indian-controlled Kashmir have charged family members of the late resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani under a…
Read MoreAuthorities deployed troops and shut down the internet as a precautionary measure, police saidThe death of a prominent anti-India political leader who had led the separatist movement in Kashmir has prompted a lockdown to be imposed on the Indian region…
Read MoreIn the fourth and final photo essay in our series of work in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation, photojournalist Showkat Nanda has been documenting both the hope and the dashed expectations of young people under lockdown during the pandemic in Ka…
Read MoreGraphic depicted Kashmir region as separate country, adding to tension between social media firm and stateTwitter is facing criminal charges in India after the site published a map that incorrectly showed the turbulent Indian region of Kashmir as a sep…
Read MoreThe ‘blood man’ of conflict-racked Kashmir has donated 174 pints of blood since 1980 but feels ‘crushed’ by his poverty Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured in a football…
Read MoreBuilding and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
Read MoreBuilding and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
Read MoreHundreds married to men who travelled to Pakistan for militant training now find themselves statelessUnder dark skies in Kashmir’s heavily militarised town of Kupwara, Saira Javed mournfully recalled her happy childhood.Recounting her early life in Kar…
Read MoreFamilies rebut claims victims, aged 16 to 22, were militants while ex-chief minister calls for investigationSurrounded by mourners who gathered in his garden, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani fell to his knees with a grief-ridden scream. “They killed my only son and…
Read MoreHighly unusual independent inquiry accuses officer of staging their deaths as a fake gunfightIn a highly unusual move, Indian police have indicted an Indian army officer, accusing him of killing three civilians in Kashmir in July and staging their deat…
Read MoreWomen are slowly gaining rights and finding the strength to shake off the social taboos around ending a bad relationshipParveena Jabeen was all set to get married, but in Kashmir weddings are extravagant affairs.Traditionally, brides in the valley of K…
Read MoreIndia’s gujjars say they are being forced from lands they have occupied for generationsThe winter snow falls heavily on the mountainside hamlet of Mamal Wuder in south Kashmir, but inside Naseema Akhtar’s mud hut the air is soft and warm, steam rising …
Read MoreIndia rejects move by Imran Khan as it also claims border area of Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan and India have been drawn into a fresh dispute following an announcement by the Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan, that he will provisionally declare the bor…
Read MoreForced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governanceSpeaking truth to power has ever been a fraught and dangerous occupation, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was recently reminded af…
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