WKA News Roundup – February 2023 February is a short month, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t big stories coming out of Kashmir. From ongoing protests...
Kashmir Dispatch February 2023
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Fortnightly Feature- The Hindu Indian onslaught and takeover of Muslim assets: Identity in crisis
On a cold winter morning, wearing a dark gray Pheran (Tradition cloak), Hafeez Qadri walks on the snow-covered road in a small village near the Sumbal region...
Sweeping Evictions Rock Jammu & Kashmir
Since the beginning of February, hundreds of people have been forcibly evicted from their homes by the settler-colonialist government abetted by the...
Kashmir Dispatch January 2023
WKA News Round-Up – January 2023 There is nothing new under the sun, and 2023 is starting to live up to that expectation. The Indian settler-colonial project...
Remembering the lost: The Gawkadal Massacre
Understanding the current conflict and occupation within Jammu and Kashmir means revisiting the events of late 1989 and 1990. Perhaps there is no singular...
Fortnightly Feature- Settler-colonialism on steroids as India and Israel team up in Kashmir
India changing land laws in Kashmir to alter the demography On a cold winter morning in the Bandipora region of Kashmir, Jaana walks barefoot on snow-covered...
Kashmir Dispatch December 2022
WKA Monthly News Roundup – December 2022 As the sun sets on 2022, it casts long shadows over Kashmir. This year India strengthened its grip on the region,...
Academic Freedom Under Assault By Indian Government
Freedom of speech has become a rallying claim for the world’s autocrats. Their actions, however, routinely show they do not care for free speech but only...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 12/25-12/31
Indian court sentences Kashmiri to six-year imprisonment A UAPA court gave a civilian a six-year jail term for being a close associate of Burhan Muzzafar...
Fortnightly Feature- Onslaught: Press Freedom in Kashmir under attack
In mint green overalls, the police officer is focused on the pistol parts lying on the table. With another rub on the metal part, the officer is satisfied...
Mass Blindings in Kashmir: The Horrors of Pellet Guns
On a festive Eid day celebration, Junaid was walking back to his car after offering obligatory prayers. It was then that the Indian military police decided to...
Kashmir Dispatch November 2022
WKA Monthly News Round Up – November 2022 2022 is ticking down. It has been a year of sorrow and further degradation of the fundamental rights of Kashmiris...
Remembering the Jammu Genocide of 1947
Time heals all wounds is a common idiom for those who want to forget. Some wounds can never heal, and genocide should never be forgotten. November 5th, 2022...
Fortnightly Feature- An Engineered Crisis: Ambush on Cash Crops
The nails of a multi-front offensive launched by the BJP-led Indian Government to crush the economy of Kashmir, have surfaced on the saffron fields of South...
Kashmir Dispatch October 2022
WKA Monthly News Round Up – October 2022 Welcome back to the WKA Kashmir Dispatch for October. Today, we’ll review the top news stories impacting Kashmir this...
Sold to the lowest bidder – India’s colonial goals in Kashmir
In last month’s blog, we discussed how India’s settler colonialism is fundamentally transforming Jammu and Kashmir into an unrecognizable state, stripping...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 12/4-12/11
Mental-Health Emergency: Kashmir suffocating Under Indian occupation: Exclusive: Experts and local sources argue that, contrary to the Indian Government's...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 10/9-10/15
Kashmiri Resistance Activist Altaf Shah dead under Indian Custody The jailed Hurriyat activist Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of Kashmiri resistance figure...
Fortnightly Feature- Street Harassment & Frisking: Kashmir Summoned Back to 1990s
In the autumn of 1993, Rafiq Ahmed was on his way to Srinagar from Pattan. He had a gunny sack of rice with him that he was supposed to sell to a family in...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 10/2-10/8
Kashmir: Indian Forces intensify military crackdown, harassment on Amit Shah’s visit On a three-day visit of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to Jammu and...
Kashmir Dispatch September 2022
WKA News Round Up – September 2022 The month of September brings the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Most of the world’s leaders attended to discuss and...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 9/25-10/1
Indian Administration plans to usurp Land at Srinagar’s historic Eidgah. The Indian Administration in Kashmir, controlled directly by New Delhi, plans to...
Kashmir News Weekly Roundup: 9/18-9/24
India opens Cinema Halls in Kashmir. The imposed Administration in Kashmir, controlled directly by New Delhi, inaugurated multipurpose cinema halls in South...
How India plans to colonize and conquer Kashmir
Colonization may seem a relic of the past. Many of the world’s great powers have seemingly dismantled their overseas holdings, in favor of new nations run by...
Kashmir Dispatch August 2022
WKA News Round Up – August 2022 August commemorates the 75th year of Indian Independence from the United Kingdom. The subcontinent was divided in bloodshed....
Looking Back at Three Years of Illegal Annexation of Indian Occupied Kashmir
Photo credits: Daily SabahStruggle and strife have been a part of life in Kashmir since the partition of India and Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir....
Kashmir Dispatch July 2022
WKA News Round-Up – July 2022 Welcome to the World Kashmir Awareness Forum’s News Round-Up for July. Here are several of the most important stories that have...
Uncovering the Past – The Killing Fields of Kashmir
Image taken by: National Herald IndiaIn the seventy-five years since the Partition of India, Kashmir has scarcely known peace. Its rich, beautiful lands, its...
Kashmir Dispatch June 2022
WKA News roundup – June 2022 Welcome to the World Kashmir Awareness Forum news round up for June of 2022- The Kashmir Dispatch. Here, we will be highlighting...
How India weaponizes the law against Muslims
One of the most important chapters in the authoritarian playbook is weaponizing the law. It allows the regime to further consolidate power by cracking down on...
Kashmir Dispatch May 2022
WKA News Round-Up – May 2022 As India’s renewed occupation grinds toward its third year, we see the brutality of their occupation month after month. With...
Violence Against Muslim Women in Kashmir is an Endemic Problem
Violence against women is a serious and under-reported problem. Whether it be from harassing language online, sexual harassment, or more serious crimes such...
Kashmir Dispatch April 2022
WKA News Roundup – April The situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir continues to exist perilously close to the edge. We’ve previously shown how the risk of...
The risk of Genocide in India increases as hate speech rises
Hate speech is reaching epidemic proportions in India as government leaders remain silent in the face of an impending tragedy. The World Kashmir Awareness...
Kashmir Dispatch March 2022
WKA News Round-Up – March March 2022 has been a vivid reminder of the depths of cruelty humans can inflict on each other. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
The Kashmir Files – Money, Media, and the Latest Cynical Attempt to Rewrite History
Vivek Agnihotri’s latest movie The Kashmir Files comes out today. Yet, it has already created rave reviews across India well before its release. The movie is...
Kashmir Dispatch February 2022
WKA News Round-Up – February February has been an unprecedented month in which the world has been brought ever closer to the brink of madness and destruction....
Kashmir Dispatch January 2022
WKA News Round-Up – January January saw the assault against journalism escalate as the violent rhetoric against Muslims spread throughout India. The World...
Right to Self-Determination Day
The time for self-determination is now Kashmir has long been a land caught in the middle, contested between two nuclear-armed powers, and the center of...
Kashmir Dispatch December 2021
December proved to be a tumultuous month as the number of global COVID-19 cases spiked due to the emergence of the omicron variant and domestic and foreign...