FJ Kashmir

inam ul rehman   On November 14 two teenagers were killed in a road rage accident, and as expected, no one wants to take the responsibility. Eight days prior to a teenager was killed and two other teens injured in a similar case of road rage at Lawaypora, Srinagar (https://www.greaterkashmir.com/city/teenager-killed-2-injured-in-road-accident-at-lawaypora).    Responsibility is something we Kashmiris often shy away from. Our officials are not ready to own up their failures. In this high-profile case of road rage, the buck is being passed around without any resolution.  Lack of traffic policing?  According to the SSP traffic police Srinagar , one of the accused in the road rage incident was counselled many times, yet there was no change in his behaviour. It should make the traffic police introspect: why is their counselling not taken seriously? And why would anyone take its counselling seriously when lax law implementation is a norm here?  I commute 35 ki...

  inam ul rehman   As we start to grow up our desires become solid. Having a car was one of the desires that fortified with age, but I was always certain that I will not bring it from my father’s pocket, take an interest-based loan from any bank, or sell a piece of land for it. Although I would drive the vehicles of my friends and cousins. This too stopped in 2005, after some innocuous thing became prickly.    Finally last year I was able to bring one.    Owning a vehicle is a dream that only a small population can fulfill. Then having a license to drive is what one desires. And here in Kashmir licenses were distributed like freebies. I remember in my clan some had licenses before owning a vehicle. This was not a strange thing exclusive to our clan only, I saw many people who had licenses before driving anything.    In 2021, a new regional transport officer, Kashmir, Sajid Yahya Naqash took charge and he immediately shot a message for the p...