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Twelve years ago when Mohammad Iqbal Shah was preparing for his class 10th examination, the personnel of the Border Security Forces (BSF) barged into his house and arrested him infront of his family members. Since then he never returned home.
Thursday , 15 March '07
For the last 10 years, Tasleema Afzal has been seeking answer to one question - should she consider herself a widow?Tuesday , 13 March '07
It was no child’s play for 11-year-old Altaf to search every jail, security camp, interrogation center and police station in the Valley for his missing father.Monday , 12 March '07
A passport-size photograph is 65-year-old Mughli Begum’s most precious procession, besides Rs 30 which she never spends. The photo is that of her missing son Nazir Ahmad Teli. He had given her Rs 30 on September 1, 1990, the day she saw him last.Sunday , 11 March '07
With Mir had gone the poor family’s sole earning member. Mir drove a taxi, KMT 1230, for a living.
Saturday , 10 March '07
Lack of co-operation from the army has put the J&K government in a spot. It faces criticism for its inability to act against men in uniform facing charges of serious abuse.Saturday , 10 March '07
Muneer’s older brother Mohd Hussain Ashraf had gone to stay over at the house of one of his relatives in Panthachowk on the outskirts of Srinagar. He never returned.Friday , 9 March '07
Fayaz lived for cricket, and could have made it to the Indian team, say former teammates.Wednesday , 7 March '07
Taja Begum used to pray for a grandson. Her son Mohammad Akbar Khan had been married for more than a decade but had no child. Fifteen years ago, her prayers changed. She wanted her Khan to return home. Today, she says she has lost all hope of seeing him alive. She just wants a glimpse of his grave before she dies.Monday , 5 March '07
For 15 years, they have been hoping their prayers will be answered. Their questions too. But one question haunts Ghulam Nabi Bhat’s mother, 70-year-old Sajida Begum, the most: “Is my son dead or alive?”Thursday , 1 March '07
After a series of media reports exposing five fake encounter killings in Kashmir, the Special Investigation Team of the J-K Police on Wednesday producedFriday , 23 February '07
With a DNA report confirming that the man killed by troops as Lashkar militant Abu Zahid was in fact Abdul Rahman PadrooMonday , 19 February '07
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), which renewed its stir in Srinagar following the recent fake encounter expose, is taking its fight to the national capital.
Monday , 12 February '07
Encounter murders have undermined the promise of the 2002 elections in the state
Sunday , 11 February '07
Their search fruitless, two fathers turn to each other for support; now they are in-laws — and grandparentsSaturday , 10 February '07
Relatives of “disappeared persons” on Friday threatened to immolate themselves, if the J-K government failed to tell them the whereabouts of their missing kin within a month.Tuesday , 6 February '07
There is a man who says his brother, a Special Police official, was picked up from home, tortured to death and to hide the truth...Monday , 5 February '07
As the Army and CRPF ordered internal probes into the fake encounters in which five civilians were killed recently...Sunday , 4 February '07
Her son disappeared in the 1990s—she’s not sure about the date and the year. In her rambling house, she continued her lonely vigil for his return. But when she heard the news of carpenter Abdul Rehman Padroo’s killing, Mughli’s fears returned. Muzamil Jaleel and photographer Javeed Shah listen to a tale that many share in the ValleySunday , 4 February '07
With the Special Investigation Team probing fake encounter killings in the Valley today exhuming three more bodies from graveyards...
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