Suicide is considered un-Islamic, then why are more and more Kashmiri Muslims taking their own lives? Baba Umar reports The sound of knocking continues to haunt 31-year-old Adil Ahmad. Until last year, these knocks were from the Pashmina wool suppliers who would come to the shawl weaver’s house in downtown Srinagar to collect their dues. In 2008, when a client bought all his shawls.
Since January, 13 percent of the Changra goats has been wiped out, threatening the lucrative Pashmina industry in the Kashmir Valley, reports Baba Umar This summer, Pashmina shawl weavers like Ashiq Ahmed have a tough choice to make. They can either buy raw wool at inflated rates or abandon the 600-year-old weaving craft. In 2006, the ban on Shahtoosh (woven with the hair of the Tibetan.
Miss Pakistan is coming to Chandigarh this year. Baba Umar finds out why Pakistan’s beauty queen cannot be crowned at home. SO FAR, choosing the reigning beauty queen of Pakistan was a task that had to be carried out as far away from Pakistan as possible. This year, organisers of the Miss Pakistan pageant, led by the fiery Sonia Ahmed (a 31-year-old Canadian-Pakistani),.
