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...
Mass Blindings in Kashmir: The Horrors of Pellet Guns
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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...
The Never-Ending Search– Parveena Ahangar’s Mission to Bring Home the Disappeared
At first glance, Parveena Ahangar is an unassuming yet determined woman. In her own words she is an 'illiterate who never stepped far from her house'. Yet so...
More Important Than Ever – Commemorating the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human rights are universal. Many governments have elaborate constitutions that commit their nations to uphold and respect those values. Yet, globally, respect...
Kashmir Dispatch November 2021
The World Kashmir Awareness Forum strives to keep you updated with the latest happenings in Kashmir. Often, many of the stories that we share are not...
Jammu Martyrs Day – Commemorating the lost
The month of November recognizes Jammu Martyrs Day – one of the blackest days in the history of Kashmir. The struggle for Kashmiri independence has been long...
Kashmir Dispatch October 2021
Monthly news roundup from Jammu and Kashmir Welcome back to the news round-up for October. Take a moment to read about the latest events that happened in...
World Mental Health Day
October 10th commemorated the World Health Organizations’ World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme was ‘Make it a Reality.' That is a call that we at the...
Kashmir Dispatch September 2021
Monthly news roundup from Jammu and Kashmir Welcome to the World Kashmir Awareness Forum News round-up for the most important stories during this past month....
What Kashmir needs from the International Community
The people of Kashmir are facing systemic cultural erasure and are continuously subjected to human rights violations every day. Yet, much of the cries for an...
Kashmir Dispatch August 2021
Monthly news roundup from Jammu and Kashmir The month of August marks a sad and tragic anniversary, two years since India revoked Article 370 and stripped...
Abrogation of Article 370 and 35A
The beginning of this month marked two full years since India revoked Articles 370 and 35A of its constitution. This action formed the legal basis for the...