I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures — until I was captured by the Taliban. In September 2001, just 15 days after the terrorist attacks on the United States, I snuck into Afghanistan, clad in a head-to-toe blue burqa, intending to write a newspaper account of life under the repressive regime….
Category: Current Affairs
Tryst with stone-pelter in Kashmir–Aalia Shaikh
“It doesn’t look like the same Kashmir I had read about in news reports last year,” I told a Kashmiri journalist friend in the middle of a conversation while sitting in a park on the Bund overlooking Jehlum river. “It may not look like the same Kashmir, but believe me, nothing has changed,” he remarked….
Striked Masses
Mr Irshad Ahmad opens the shop punctually at 10 am. He arranges the things in his shop into usual order. He hangs lumps of meat on iron hangings. He is very much disturbed by the murder of Kashmiri student in Bangalore. He believes that the present time is the time of decision, ‘’ ‘’ Mr…