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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicKashmiri separatist

Topic: Kashmiri separatist

‘BJP proxies’, or Independents? Past, present & future tense for ex-militants in J&K poll fray

+TFP Neelam Pandey -
Twenty-eight former militants, separatists & Jamaat-backed leaders are participating in the J&K elections. How they impact Kashmir politics will be clearer after 8 October results.

Who is Zahoor Watali, businessman who ‘funded terror in J&K’ through scores of firms & ‘hawala’

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Watali was arrested in August 2017 in a terror funding case. According to NIA, which attached 17 properties belonging to him Monday, he was a conduit who helped bring Pakistani money to Hurriyat.

Separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah dies in AIIMS of cancer, ‘as a prisoner,’ says daughter

ThePrint Team -
The son-in-law of late Hurriyat chief Syed Gilani was charged for funding terror, and ‘waging war against India’.

Kashmir separatist Yasin Malik convicted in 2017 terror-funding case days after pleading guilty

Bismee Taskin -
Yasin Malik had last Tuesday told court he was not contesting the charges against him and was 'ready to face whatever is next'.

‘Ready to face whatever’s next’: What Yasin Malik said about guilty plea in terror-funding case

Ananya Bhardwaj -
‘Friend of the court’, advocate Akhand Pratap Singh, says he tried to make Malik understand consequences of pleading guilty, but he made up his mind not to face trial.

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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