تحریر:مجتبیٰ علی شجاعی
ایران کے حالیہ حالات کو محض وقتی بدامنی یا داخلی اضطراب کے طور پر دیکھنا حقیقت سے چشم پوشی کے مترادف ہوگا۔ یہ واقعات دراصل اس طویل کشمکش کی تازہ کڑی ہیں جو اسلامی جمہوریہ ایران اور عالمی استکباری قوتوں کے درمیان دہائیوں سے جاری ہے۔ اس بار بھی طریقۂ واردات وہی تھا۔عوامی مشکلات کو بنیاد بنا کر جذبات کو بھڑکانا، اختلافِ رائے کو تشدد میں بدلنا، اور پھر اس پورے عمل کو ’’عوامی تحریک‘‘ کا نام دے کر عالمی سطح پر پیش کرنا۔
مگر تاریخ نے ایک بار پھر ثابت کر دیا کہ جمہوری ا...
On the 12th of November, the administration of the Union Territory of Ladakh issued a notification under Section 4(2) of the LAHDC Act nominating the BJP worker Advocate Reyaz Ahmad Khan as the fourth nominated member/councillor of the 5th Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil. He had unsuccessfully contested council elections on the BJP ticket for the Chuliskambo constituency in 2023. The government is empowered to nominate up to four members to the council under the said provis...
VOL News Desk/ In Kargil, Friday sermons by Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust and Jamiat Ulama Asna Ashariya featured prominent scholars addressing social issues, cleanliness, and public welfare. Hujjatul Islam Sheikh Hamid Naseri, speaking at Masjid Imam, emphasized that aiding others—such as removing obstacles from roads—surpasses mere worship. He condemned roadside littering and dumping garbage, particularly between Iqbal Bridge and Andoo, as a social evil contrary to Islamic teachings, and ur...
VOL News Desk/ Recent satellite imagery from the Pangong Tso region in eastern, Ladakh suggests that the apparent calm along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) does not necessarily equate to strategic stability. While India and China continue diplomatic and military engagements following the 2020 standoff, developments on the ground indicate a steady consolidation of China’s military presence close to disengagement buffer zones.
High-resolution satellite images appear to show the construction o...
In Kargil, a sentence is often heard when someone falls sick:
“Don’t depend only on the local hospital. Go to Kashmir.”
This advice is given by neighbors, relatives, and even well-wishers. But why has this thought become so common?
Many patients share similar experiences. They go to the hospital in Kargil, explain their health problem, and get some tests done. The doctors say the reports are normal and there is no serious issue.
But later, when the same patient goes to Kashmir fo...
Kargil, February 17, 2025 — A major political upheaval has struck Ladakh over the alleged violation of the Hill Council Act, where the National Conference (NC) and the Congress completely boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of the newly nominated Councilor, Advocate Reyaz Ahmad Khan, terming it a serious attack on women’s rights.
The significant announcement was made today by Member of Parliament and NC Ladakh President, Haji Mohammad Hanifa Jan, while speaking to the media after DISHA mee...
October 20, 2025: The wedding season in Kargil district is at its peak, filling streets and highways with vibrant celebrations. From narrow lanes to main roads, the atmosphere is festive — one wedding procession after another moves through the town, with convoys of vehicles carrying guests to different villages and localities.
As night falls, Kargil echoes with religious songs, qawwalis, and wedding melodies, blaring from loudspeakers as processions pass by. While these scenes reflect joy and...
As a Kashmiri who has endured pain that was inflicted for being well-wisher of India, I have been contemplating to answer a question for very long time, whether our system is pro-national or antinational? Today, I believe from the core of my heart on the basis of the experiences I have gained, the system in place favours unpatriotic and penalizes patriotic Indians. In reality it is the place of refuge for those who outwardly look Indian but inwardly are eyes and hands of our enemy who want t...
Kargil, October 13/ VOL News Desk/ Congress-National Conference coalition functioning smoothly; demands judicial probe into September 24 incident.
Working President of Ladakh Territorial Congress, Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai, has said that the coalition government between the Congress and National Conference (NC) in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Kargil is functioning effectively in accordance with the mutual agreement between the two parties.
He clarified that as per t...
I write as a young person from Kargil, assertions not as political commentaries but as considerations for the next generation who will inherit this land after us. I write because silence in the face of injustice is complicity; because the youth of Ladakh deserve to see their story told in their own words. I have seen democracy die twice in my motherland. Twice have I looked on aghast as freedom and representation disappeared into thin air.
5 August 2019: The Day Democracy Was Disfigured
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