Patriot Correspondent

SRINAGAR: Amid unrest Jammu and Kashmir government bans five cable news channels that allegedly transmitting various programmes which has created law and order problem in the trouble torn Valley. The move indicates that Mehbooba Mufti led…

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir governments in ordinary times are seen as apathetic to the press and its freedom. Whenever there is unrest, the clampdown begins. As violence erupted across Kashmir in July this summer, the government…

SRINAGAR: From last three months, confined in a dark room of his house,30-year-old freelance photojournalist Zuhaib Maqbool regrets of being a Kashmir based journalist. Zuhaib is the brutal victim of riots control weaponry called pellet gun…

SRINAGAR: With no end in sight over the growing resentment against establishment, the State government is using many ‘Non lethal weapons’ to crush the protesters. Irfan Quraishi tracks new additions of crowd control arsenal state government…

SRINAGAR: A ban on the Srinagar-based daily ‘Kashmir Reader’ is a blot on Indian democracy, writes Irfan Quraishi. On 2 October, J&K government banned the local daily newspaper Kashmir Reader saying that it had “credible inputs” that…