Khan's family now believes he has been killed

Wednesday , 23 May '07

Ali Mardan Khan was 65 when he disappeared from the custody of security forces. After 17 years, his family has lost hope that he will return.

Army vehicle gave a lift to Altaf, five yrs passed but he is yet to be dropped

Thursday , 17 May '07

ALTAF Ahmad and his brother Bashir Ahmad Cheechi were walking home when an Army vehicle stopped and asked Altaf to board the vehicle. Since then Altaf never returned back

'Five years have passed, I don't know my husband is dead or alive'

Thursday , 17 May '07

Manzoor Ahmad Dar was a chemist. Five years ago, on January 18, he returned from his shop as usual in the evening, not knowing that this would be his last day with the family.

His mother still believes Shafi will return

Monday , 14 May '07

Many villagers were witness to Shafi's kidnapping and informed the family about the incident. Though the family refuses Shafi's involvement in militant activities, Tral residents say ¿he had joined militant ranks of the Al-Jehad.

He was an innocent boy interested only in his studies

Sunday , 13 May '07

VILLAGERS took to streets, students boycotted their classes and relatives wailed in front of officers, but these joint efforts failed to bring any news about missing Showket Ahmad Malik.

If security agencies cooperate, my brother can be traced

Saturday , 12 May '07

Thirty-five year old Dar was associated with the separatist group Salvation Movement. On the morning of July 1, 2005, this young member of the family left home to participate in a party rally. But like many others, Dar never returned.

In the hope of getting news of my son, i visit jails

Friday , 11 May '07

The family filed an FIR at the Parimpora Police Station. "But police failed to help us. Beyond registering a case, they have done nothing to find our son," says Bhat.

'I believe my husband is alive somewhere in jail'

Thursday , 10 May '07

Six years after Sofi˜s arrest, the family received "good news" with arrival of an Army team in the village. Before the Army team left, the officers assured them that he will soon be with his family. But, he never came.

10 days before wedding, Hassan disappeared

Wednesday , 9 May '07

IT WAS celebration time for the Lone family: their son Ghulam Hassan Lone was getting married. But 10 days before the wedding, festivities turned into gloom when Hassan was picked up allegedly by security forces.

At 75, Fatima Begum's only wish is to see her son once

Tuesday , 8 May '07

A former militant, Firdous Ahmed Bawan was leading a normal life and running a business successfully, says his family, residents of Buchwara Dalgate. On September 25, 2000, the family say two army gypsies pulled up outside Firdous's shop.

He had to leave his studies after his brother went missing

Monday , 7 May '07

WHEN Showkat Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Wawora in Kupwara's Lolab area, turned eight, he had to shun education to support his family. Showkat's elder brother Nazir Ahmad Sheikh went missing thirteen years ago and his father died soon after.

Disappearance of Malik changed the fortunes of his family

Sunday , 6 May '07

THE villagers in this beautiful hamlet of Verinag wondered how Nissar Ahmad Malik managed his family life along with his two daughters, wife, brothers and old parents. The family was an ideal joint family, living happily and enjoying life.

Sameer often asks relatives 'where is my father'

Friday , 4 May '07

SOON after Sameer Ali's father went missing, he was sent to an orphanage. When Ghulam Ahmad Dar could not be found even after 10 years, Sameer's mother Raja Begum decided to remarry.

Even Amnesty's intervention failed to trace Tariq

Thursday , 3 May '07

IN Tariq Ahmad Lone's case, an electrician with the Centaur Lake View hotel who went missing in the custody of the CRPF, even the international human rights group, the Amnesty International's intervention failed to trace his whereabouts.

His father disappeared before his birth and mother remarried

Wednesday , 2 May '07

Just like any boy of his age, Javeed Yousuf Mir dreams big. He wants to become a surgeon. But this 13-year-old from Okay, Kulgam, knows that life is not all that smooth.

It was the last trip he undertook to his apple orchard

Tuesday , 1 May '07

IT WAS the November of 2002. The last anyone ever heard of Abdul Rashid Parra, then 27, in Tangmarg's Larkipora Khag, was that he had gone to pay a routine visit to his apple orchard on the outskirts of the village.

Valley stages protest on encounters

Wednesday , 28 March '07

It is a unique catharsis where protest is not slogan-shouting, stone-pelting young men fighting pitched battles with the police.

Probe suggests he is dead, family still hopes he will return one day

Monday , 19 March '07

Five years ago, Abdul Majeed Hajam had to shoulder a responsibility he was not ready for. The onus of supporting his big joint family fell on Majeed, then 23 years old.

Sheikh’s family still lives in hope, after waiting 17 years for him

Sunday , 18 March '07

It has been a 17-year wait. But the belief of this family in Pulwama’s remote Muran village that the family head, Mohammad Afzal Sheikh, will return home one day is not shaken, yet.