Haroon Mirani, Author at Women's eNews

Conflict Leaves Women Stranded in Divided Kashmir

By Haroon Mirani ● Politics ● October 14, 2007

In Indian-controlled Kashmir women with husbands on the other side of the militarized zone have spent years and decades struggling for reunion. In the meantime they endure official suspicion and harassment and struggle for their daily survival.

Kashmir’s Half-Widows Struggle for Fuller Life

By Haroon Mirani ● Politics ● January 14, 2007

The wives of men who have disappeared in India’s Kashmir conflict gather each month holding photos of their husbands in a protest. The “half-widows” are unable to collect pensions or remarry without official word that their husbands are dead.

In Kashmir, Women Police Streets Taliban-Style

By Haroon Mirani ● Politics ● September 10, 2006

Five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, a group called the Daughters of Islamic Community shows the veiled and thriving face of Islamic fundamentalism in the disputed region of Indian-administered Kashmir.

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Conflict Leaves Women Stranded in Divided Kashmir

Kashmir’s Half-Widows Struggle for Fuller Life

In Kashmir, Women Police Streets Taliban-Style