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Mufti Islah SRINAGAR: In view of the covid-19 surge, Kashmir’s leading philanthropic organisation, Athrout, has set up a 100-bed Covid facility in a record three days’ time. Athrout collaborated with the Srinagar administration, and converted the Haj house building into a spacious 100- bed plus Covid facility in Srinagar, almost in tune with a new practice of using religious places like mosques, temples and gurudwaras for rendering services to Corona-afflicted population. Kashmir’s major charity, the Athrout handing over six high-value ventilators to the management of Chest Disease Hosp...

Hilal Shah KUPWARA: Mohammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai was born in Tekipora (Lolab) in Kupwara in 1944. He was the youngest among three brothers, Mohammad Yousuf Khan (dead 2016) and Qamar-ud-Din Khan, a Jamaat-e-Islami veteran (died in 2009). Seharie died at the age of 77. Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai Sehrai has done his basic schooling from a local school in his village and passed his tenth class from Government High School Sogam. Deeply saddened to know about Ashraf Sehrai sahab’s sudden demise. Like him countless political prisoners & other detainees from J&K continue to be jailed purely for their i...

SRINAGAR: In an apparent move to mend fences with the wealthiest Islamic nation, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is visiting Saudi Arabia on May 7.

  This is being seen as the modernization plans for the Vision 2030 envisaged by one of Saudi’s most powerful and totalitarian Crown Prince’s, Mohammed bin Salman. “Female guards are seen wearing official uniforms as they perform their duties at the Grand Mosque, with the caption: “From the field. Security guards for Hajj,” one report in an Indian newspaper said. “Earlier, the Saudi Ministry of Defence had announced that both men and women could apply for various military positions. In December last year (2020) alone, the Iruharam office recruited about 1,500 women to various sec...

SRINAGAR: On 20 th April my online editor, Tahir Bhat tested positive for COVID 19. I along with six other staffers of Kashmir Life went into self-quarantine following contact with him. Two days after the incident, when heavy rain lashed Srinagar, I went to Upper Primary Health Centre Batamaloo. I was of the opinion that it will take me few minutes to get tested for the novel Coronavirus but my perceptions turned topsy-turvy as it took me three hours to get tested. While waiting in the long queue I got drenched in rain. Amid pushes and pulls, I tried to save my eyes from the sticks of the um...