In Memory: Mir Shafqat Hussain, the People’s Lawyer
On January 13, Kashmir lost one of its beloved human rights lawyers, Mir Shafqat Hussain. Here, Inshah Malik remembers her cousin.
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United Nations and the Kashmir Struggle: What does the recent UN report mean for Kashmir?
In this brief piece, Muhammad Daniyal Ubaidullah takes a cursory look at the OHCHR report on Kashmir and tries to find out what it means for the freedom struggle in Kashmir. He asks whether the reactions coming out of Kashmir are proportionate to what the report holds for Kashmiris or are these reactions just misplaced underdog enthusiasm?
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Parvez Imroz Rafto Lecture
The text of the lecture that Advocate Parvez Imroz of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) delivered at The 2017 Rafto Conference at Bergen, Norway.
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Numberalism: Numbers as symbolism?
In this essay Muhammad Tahir evokes Roland Barthes famous definition of myth to describe the symbolic appeal of numbers – and the power they hold – in the nationalistic and counter-nationalistic projects all over the world, including in Kashmiri struggle.
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