Mohalla Raja Azur Khan is located on an elevated plain near Kathi Dar waza. It is overlooked by the Hari Parbat fort where the Raja, the erstwhile crown prince of the then Gilgit Agency was imprisoned for six years somewhere in the late nineteenth century. This Mohalla largely comprises of Burusho people, locally known as Botraj (all Mongoloid faced people in Kashmir are called Bota and Raja means king). They are originally from Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin, major belts forming the Gilgit Baltistan (GB), which Pakistan is ruling independent of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) region.
Despite being a very small population, this Shia Muslim cluster has managed to preserve part of its language and culture. However, over the decades they are as fluent in Kashmiri as they are in their own language, the Burushaski. Generational isolation from their place of origin has compromised the orthodoxy of their language but the advent of the internet is helping them to make quick corrections.
A WAR
In 1891, British India and their client Dogra regime in Kashmir decided to annex the Hunza, Nagar belt. This was part of the Great Games that dominated Kashmir for more than 200 years. The key factor that led to the plan was a belief that the Russians would invade or the Chinese influence will increase thus disturbing British India. They aimed at improving the buffer state, the state of Jammu and Kashmir by the entire Northern Areas to the Dogra state.
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Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country that was always in turmoil and one of the worst targets of the Great Game suffered immensely throughout, especially in the last 40 years, Masood Hussain writes
FINGERS CROSSED
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
The visiting 28-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have had detailed interactions with top civil administration and discussed developmental scenario and people’s welfare measures in Jammu and Kashmir. It is on a 4-day visit. Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma is heading the committee.
MUSIC IN MUD HOUSE
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
‘SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IS THE OUTCOME OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN KASHMIR STAND-OFF'
Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
LG In Bangus
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela amidst grand arrangements for village games, exhilarating local performances, and other activities to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
