Tag: Peerzada Ashiq

By Zahoor Hussain Getting booked under stringent anti-terrorism laws, summoned to security establishments – from counter-insurgency centers to police stations, beaten by security forces and landed in jails for doing normal stories or uploading posts on social media has become a ‘new norm’ for journalists in the trouble-torn Kashmir valley. But, despite all this they have not backtracked rather continue to bring out and tell the stories of Kashmir. Gowhar Geelani, a well-known journalist and author in Kashmir, says that ‘intimidating tactics from any quarter won’t cow him down and he...