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Journalist @IndianExpress naveed.iqbal @expressindia .com

New Delhi / Srinagar
Joined July 2009
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This tweet is brought to you from my desktop, from my office, after seven months. #Kashmir
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Special place in hell for people who drive with their headlights on high beam full time.
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"Aur ye mehr-e-tabaan se ja ke keh do, ke apni kirnon ko ginn ke rakh le; main apne sehra ke zarre zarre ko khud chamakna sikha raha hun."
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Another day. #Srinagar
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18 weeks of working with the bare minimum internet connectivity in a cramped & cold government media facility in Kashmir. Thank you for the outrage, fellow reporters. Perhaps you will empathise when you have to travel to a government centre to be able to read the morning papers.
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Not sure who pradhan mantri ji could possibly be waving to, since Srinagar has been on lock down since last night and internet snapped. All for a couple hours of PM's visit.
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#WATCH Jammu & Kashmir: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tours Dal lake in Srinagar.
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Srinagar, after some early morning downpour.
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J&K administration releases former bureaucrat Shah Faesal and two PDP leaders Pir Mansoor and Sartaj Madani, revoking their detention under the Public Safety Act. @IndianExpress
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Harvest in crisp sunshine.
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To feel powerful by humiliating someone helpless. Shameful.
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21 days of mass incarceration in Kashmir. Roads are a maze of concertina and in the age of 5G, people are encouraged to celebrate having a landline. Schools are ‘open’ but unattended. Colleges, universities & businesses shut. Govt claims - ‘we don’t know how many are detained.’
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PSA detentions of former J&K CM, Mehbooba Mufti, senior NC leader Ali Mohammad Sagar and PDP leader Sartaj Madani extended by three more months by the J&K administration. @IndianExpress
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The person asking the police to shoot him is Altaf Bhat's eldest brother Abdul Majid Bhat. He is 62.
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Shahid Tantray | شاہد تانترے
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Police detained the protesting family members who were demanding the return of dead bodies of killed civilian since morning.
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First sign of a fresh spring.
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Hate to bring this up every year, but the day the “darbar” moves to Jammu, power cuts begin for Kashmir (that will now last throughout the winter). We’ve accepted this as fate. As if somehow, a few hours of electricity is more than the govt can do for us.
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Good thing China doesn't play cricket.
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Of all the advice I got before I moved to Kashmir for work, get-a-BSNL-postpaid-connection has been the best so far.
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1% polling in Anantnag today. Just above 3% in Kashmir. If this isn't a lesson, what is.
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Speed restrictions on mobile data to continue across J&K. After the review scheduled today, decision taken to restrict mobile internet to 2G and allow regular speeds on broadband services. @IndianExpress
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These are pictures from Nasrullahpora in Budgam where residents claim that after a DSP was injured in clashes with locals post Friday prayers, the “police came back with axes and rods, entered homes and damaged everything in the their path, going floor by floor.”
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The J&K administration drops Sher-e-Kashmir, the title attributed to Sheikh Abdullah, from SKICC and renames it as Kashmir International Conference Centre. @IndianExpress
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Srinagar today.
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Onward.
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High speed internet to be restored in Ganderbal and Udhampur districts of J&K starting 2100 hours on Sunday. @IndianExpress
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As polling booth locations go, I believe this beats a few.
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The J&K civil service regulation rules have been amended allowing the administration to retire government employees "at any time" after completing 22 years of service or attaining the age of 48 years, with three months notice. @IndianExpress
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Too cool for curfew.
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The staff room in tears, they said, "right now it is easier to be with each other than to be with our families because we all have the same thing on their minds." They pick themselves up, meet on the main road and then walk to the school together.
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Another stunning Srinagar evening.
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Top security officials told The Indian Express that this year’s security presence — as on date — “surpasses deployment in Kashmir in the 1990s”. via @IndianExpress
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I've got a real - beta shadi ho gayi? ghar mein kaun kaun hai? - full on judgement type uncle hovering over my head right now :/
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J&K admin order extending restrictions on internet speed to 2G notes, "The internet speed restrictions have, while enabling access to essential services and sites not posed any hindrance to COVID-19 control measures or online educational content." @IndianExpress
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Altaf Ahmad Bhat, killed on Monday night in the Hyderpora encounter at Srinagar, laid to rest at a graveyard near his house. His body was exhumed from Handwara late Thursday evening. ⁦ @IndianExpress
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Eight years at The Indian Express.
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While the number of law and order incidents may have dropped dramatically, what has kept the security establishment on edge is the challenge of local militancy. Since January, 80 youths took to militancy, of whom 38 were killed and 22 caught.
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#ExpressFrontPage | In sharp contrast are the numbers since August 5 last year. Law and order incidents that saw violence added up to only 196.
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Detention of senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar and NC's Hilal Lone revoked. Both were detained under the Public Safety Act. - @IndianExpress
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‘Tis the season.
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For his age, he is acutely aware of his mother's grief. He stepped in to console her, even offering her a glass of water. Hours after pictures of him sitting on the body of his grandfather appeared.
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#ExpressFrontPage | J&K: 3-yr-old watching, his grandfather and CRPF head constable killed in Sopore
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In this moment, let's not forget the anxious faces huddled around that one landline in government offices for weeks following August 5, 2019. Parents worried if their children had money to come back home. Workers from other states keen to allay fears of their kin. So many others.
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The internet, mobile and telephone connections were snapped in J&K a day before the Centre abrogated the erstwhile state’s special status under Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
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J&K to go into full lockdown starting 8 pm March 22 till 6 pm March 31, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Orders to be issued shortly. @IndianExpress
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At least three eyewitnesses said Altaf and Gul were taken by the security personnel to the building. “The second time, 20 minutes after the first, we heard gunshots and then they did not come back,” one of them said.
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#ExpressFrontPage | The J&K Police said they had busted a terror module, a claim that families of three among the dead contested.
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Inquiry ordered by the Army authorities into Op Amshipora has been concluded. The inquiry has brought out certain prima facie evidence indicating that during the operation, powers vested under the AFSPA 1990 were exceeded - Army statement on the Shopian encounter - @IndianExpress
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We do not accept this. We have differences but all parties present here have come together realising that tomorrow we could be left out of our Assembly. Farooq Abdullah NC President @IndianExpress
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It’s been FIVE months since the revocation of special status to #JammuandKashmir and two months since it officially transitioned to a Union Territory. An unspecified number of people (‘a few hundred’ we are told) continue to be under detention, many in locations outside J&K.
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In J&K, an unprecedented policy shift in the midst of a pandemic. DGP Singh says that the Centre’s directive not to hand over bodies of militants came after three funerals in early April drew large crowds. via @IndianExpress
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A senior BJP functionary began a meeting by congratulating the PM for winning the "Times Now" poll. When corrected, says "ek hi baat hai."
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J&K withdraws requirement of obtaining a No Objection Certificate for land acquisition/ requisition "in favour of Army/BSF/CRPF and similar organisations" from the Home Department. @IndianExpress
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To borrow @Snowden 's words as #Kashmir emerges from a comms lockdown after 70 days - Can you hear me now?
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For the children from this village, many of whom want to be IAS officers, that small patch is an oasis where they study, socialise and even log in for exams. via @IndianExpres
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This is going to be one anxious night for Kashmir. We don't know what to expect tomorrow. Meanwhile, mobile internet snapped and only broadband seems to be working for now.
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Detention of former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti under the Public Safety Act extended by another three months. She has been in detention for almost a year and was booked under PSA in February this year. @IndianExpress
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Spent the day without my phone. Missed nothing.
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Mobile internet speed to remain restricted to 2G in J&K. Order states that while these restrictions pose no hindrance to COVID-19 control measures, they have reduced instances of misuse of social media. Next review on April 27 - J&K admin. @IndianExpress
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Across the Valley, a silent, devastating pandemic of drug addiction is wreaking havoc in families and stretching the public health system to its limits: leaving a trail of tragedy and loss in its wake, an investigation by The Indian Express has found.
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#ExpressFrontPage | Record heroin seizures; arrests at a new high; young men pour into clinics across districts.
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Sundays are for these views.
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J&K has placed an order for 1.25 crore vaccines, the highest by any state/UT. - Advisor to J&K LG Baseer Khan. @IndianExpress
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. @Mohun_Bagan are playing @realkashmirfc at Srinagar today. Full house at the TRC turf. No goals at half time.
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11 districts in J&K - Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Budgam, Kulgam, Pulwama, Ganderbal, Jammu, Kathua, Reasi and Udhampur - will go under corona curfew beginning 7 pm on April 29 (Thursday) evening till 7 am on May 3 (Monday). @IndianExpress
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Yes, gau raksha for instance.
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RSS chief #MohanBhagwat says the purpose of education should be to make students capable of giving something back to society.
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Merry Christmas! (From Gulmarg)
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Special place in hell for whoever designed "captcha" :/
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A significant development for J&K.
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Centre defines new domicile rule for J&K, includes those who have lived in UT for 15 years
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The saddest part of the killings, whether those in Pulwama today or anywhere else on any given day in Kashmir, is that no one expects that anyone will ever be booked for their crimes. The dead are added to the stats like hours to the clock and that's all they remain.
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani passes away in Srinagar. @IndianExpress
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I love how #Modi is talking about #digitalIndia and the world is listening when Kashmir has had internet suspended for three days now.
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I live for these rain washed evenings.
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This ordinance is, without saying it, following the precedent of what it did in Jammu & Kashmir: Change the legal status of a state without any accountability. The silence of the Court and all other political parties on Kashmir is coming home to roost.
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Final voting percentage for the first phase of DDC elections for J&K is 51.76%; with the highest voting percentage in Reasi district of Jammu at 74.62%. Pulwama is lowest at 6.70%. Srinagar recorded 33.76% voting, Anantnag 43.32% and Shopian 42.58%. @IndianExpress - CEO J&K
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J&K announces free vaccination for individuals between 18-45 years. Cost of vaccine to be borne by the J&K administration. Meanwhile, the UT goes under curfew for the weekend until 6 am on Monday, April 26. @IndianExpress
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While detentions under PSA dropped sharply post 2019; the number of UAPA cases increased from 437 in 2019 to 557 in 2020. More than 2300 individuals arrested under UAPA in the last three years. Of this, 1101 remain in custody.
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Never a good time to pack way jackets in Srinagar.
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Looks like we'll be able to text now. Yay :/
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Homeland.
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Big lessons for #AAP in this mandate. "Ahankaar" is a bad word.
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Stunning, stunning Shopian.
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The people of J&K are expendable to them (Center), what they want is territory. This country will run on the constitution, not BJP’s manifesto. PDP President @MehboobaMufti @IndianExpress
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'If the people of J&K, are looking towards me as the person who will rally them out into the streets and god forbid get some of them killed, then I am not that person, I will not do that.’ Full interview here via @IndianExpress
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Aaj ka review, 2G to continue.
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What happens in one part of Srinagar, rarely affects another. So on a day with an ongoing attack, the kids are on their way to school ...
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Clearly, the J&K administration’s ideas of democratic governance are very different from what the Constitution of India promises. via @IndianExpress
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There it is, that auburn fall.
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We have approved an economic package of Rs 1350 crore for J&K. - J&K LG Manoj Sinha @IndianExpress
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225/280 at 10 PM. BJP - 62, NC - 53, PDP - 25, Congress - 20, PC 6 and 39 independents. @IndianExpress
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Ahead of anniversary, PM’s J&K package audit - In the last (about) five years, only nine projects have been fully “completed”, and eight more “substantially completed” in J&K. The outlay for this set of 17 projects stood at less than a fifth of the total package.
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#ExpressFrontPage | PM’s J&K package audit: 50% funds used, third of projects done
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PDP president Mehbooba Mufti addressing her first press conference after being released from fourteen months in detention. @IndianExpress
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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad arrives to meet NC president Farooq Abdullah at his Gupkar Road residence. @IndianExpress
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