CategoriesBlogMohammad Ashraf Sehrai achieved martyrdom on May 05, 2021 after Indian state murdered him under custody in Jammu part of the UN-designated disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Shaheed Sehrai, 77, was put under custody by India in July 2020 and imprisoned in a jail in Udhampur district, some 300KM away from his residence in…
CategoriesBlogIndia’s recent decision to host a G20 meeting in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir has sparked controversy and raised concerns among the international community. This move by the Narendra Modi-led central government is seen by many as a disregard for international law and United Nations resolutions regarding the Kashmir conflict. Critics argue that…
CategoriesReportsThe Institute of Kashmir Studies (IKS) conducted a detailed study on the Lal-Chowk Arson, immediately after its incidence.
CategoriesAnalysisFor the first time, India has sent a notice to Pakistan asking for a review and revision of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). Pakistan has interpreted the move as an attempt by Delhi to unilateral revisions to the treaty that was signed more than 60 years ago, with analysts fearing that India’s ‘desperate’ action might…
CategoriesAcademic ArticleIn the occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian colonial authority operates as a laboratory for state experimentation, whereby lawfare, certification and documentation (enabling non-Kashmiri settlers to settle in occupied Kashmir), historiography, language as colonial tools, and manifestations of all colonial modalities have transformed knowledge into power.
CategoriesReportsThe government of India has employed
different forms and strategies of counter-insurgency operations in
Kashmir.
CategoriesBlogIn the larger discourse of direct , structural and cultural violence, women in this occupied region are often neglected.
CategoriesBlogOn 11 February 1984 a 45 year old Kashmiri man Maqbool Bhat, considered to be architect of Kashmir’s first armed rebellion, was sent to gallows inside India’s infamous detention centre Tihar Jail, west of New Delhi, the capital of the Indian state.
CategoriesReportsThe enactment of Jammu & Kashmir Re-organization Act 2019 by the
Indian Parliament after the unilateral and Illegal annexation of Indian
occupied Jammu Kashmir-IOJK marks a critical turning point in the
transition of colonial laws into settler colonial legislations applicable to
state.
CategoriesReportsA detailed, study was conducted by Institute of Kashmir Studies on the Kupwara Massacre.
