Author: Fida Iqbal

Hum kya chahtay -mobile phone; prepaid service- kayam karo; jis mobile ko khoon se sencha -woh mobile hamara hai; recharge hamar- paydaishi  haq hai , these slogans will  echo within the valley if exploitation of Mobile phone drama continues unabated. Starting with so much of passion for complete azadi, our flock disintegrated into many groups, some sticking…

On the occasion of Ambassador’s golf cup at Royal Springs Golf Course (RSGC) Srinagar on 31st of October one of the visiting Ambassadors’ while describing beauty of Kashmir said,’ I had a notion, that to be in heaven you have to make an ascend, but when our plane approached Kashmir valley from mighty mountains, I…

Any one who relieves mankind of its sufferings and gets people out of agony and pain is the real savior. Treating sick is one of the noble professions and doctors should be proud of being associated with this dignified job. Doctors at every stage of their profession come across pain and can really feel the…

  Interfering and committing upon the domain of women’s rights and their social standing is a very delicate subject particularly for male fraternity. For last many decades in major part of the world female emancipation has lead women folk to the farthest boundaries of liberty and at occasions they resort to extreme feminism. Under these…

Decades after independence the true face of democracy is eluding us due to lack of impartiality and sincerity within the system of governance. In every field of life the levels of transparency are lacking which otherwise should have been the essence of people’s governance we had opted in 1947 after a long battle. Dictatorship has…

Kashmir has a long and distinguished recorded history spread over many thousand years, marked with many turbulent periods and few patches of peace and prosperity. Cruelty, suppression, pillages and exploitation has always been the fate of inhabitants of this beautiful land. With the dawn of democracy in the subcontinent Kashmir and Kashmiries tried to come…

Autocracy and subjugation make people to behave in an unusual manner and they are unable to make out about the reality of people and places. Extremes of suppression make thing worst for them.  Earlier golfers were considered to be aliens and golf courses heavenly abodes by the common men. For last many decades after the…

Pakistan as nation conceived by great poet and philosopher Alama Iqbal and shaped by leaders of grand stature Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan even after stiff resistance from stalwarts like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad has faced many turbulent times during last six decades. Creation of Pakistan was at a bigger cost, paid both…

One element can not be refuted about late sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, his deep sensitivity towards misery faced by people of Kashmir during autocratic rule. Sheikh Abdullah as leader was result of Kashmiri people’s sufferings and pain experienced by them at the cruel hands of their tormentors. Sheikh Sahib was much concerned about hygiene and health…

Kashmiris are used to pain and difficult times; have suffered on all accounts and experienced lack of sympathy at the hands of both aggressors and their own people for centuries. After fall of British Raja democratic fragrance and breeze of freedom blew all over the subcontinent but probably these winds were not so influential to…