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To denounce the shutdown of the Kashmir Press Club, 10 journalist associations in the Valley have joined hands to form the ‘Kashmir Media Coalition’, the Kashmir Reader reported. In a meeting attended by journalists from Kashmir, including Altaf Hussain, Nazir Masoodi and Mufti Islah, the coalition condemned the “takeover” and…

Critical of the Central rule, he warns that tactics adopted were likely to delay return of Pandits

What has changed for Kashmiri newspapers since the Indian government’s clampdown in the Valley last August? “It is better if you leave without hearing our answers,” replied an anxious editor at the prominent English daily Rising Kashmir, on a late December evening.

When they weren’t traversing the valley for stories and reports, journalists in Kashmir could often be found at the Press Club in Srinagar or at the city’s so-called Media Facilitation Centre. While the former remained a territory of choice for most scribes, the latter became a territory of circumstance.