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Sorry, Manu Joseph, but you are sad!
By Pritha Kejriwal
Oscar Wilde had once said that journalism is unreadable…I wouldn’t go into the merits of the sweeping statement, but it just so happens, that at times, one comes across instances of journalism, so grotesque, so misshapen, so utterly despicable, that one can’t but not [...]
Siachin & Kashmir compromised?
(Ali Ashraf Khan)
Exactly on last Saturday at 5.45 am an avalanche smashed into a battalion headquarter base in Gayari sector in Baltistan near Skardu in which some 135 souls have been trapped. Helicopters, sniffer dogs and troops with local porters are trying hard to reach the spot where these men [...]
End of an era
The government tried its best to persuade Jehangir to be a witness against Sheikh Abdullah but he refused. This only added to his woes but he did not succumb
Zahir-ud-Din
Those who believe militancy was introduced in 1989 are mistaken. Kashmiris started getting arms training immediately after the [...]
Hafiz Saeed Factor in US-Pakistan relations
(By Muhammad Farooq Rehmani)
Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani critically analyses the American announcement of a $10 million bounty on Chief of Jammaat ud Dawa Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, and another $2million for locating his brother-in-law Hafiz Abdul [...]
who will freeze Kashmir and how?
by Zahir-ud-Din
The mainstream politicians were never in a position to cause a stir in the Valley. They still are not, the `inflated’ rallies of Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference notwithstanding
Recent political and diplomatic developments suggest that New Delhi and Islamabad have [...]
Women’s Day: Kashmiri women want equality, justice
SRINAGAR, Mar 7 (Sana Altaf): As debates, discussions and seminars continue to be held on International Womens’ Day, the women of Kashmir express their demands for equality, justice and peace.
They want justice for thousands of women suffering each day in the valley. Gender equality, equality of [...]
Freezing Kashmir
It is like forcing entrenched discourses to overnight change their narrative
BY RIYAZ AHMAD
It is after a long time that Hurriyat is back in news – that is, ever since their heady march to the centre stage in the successive unrests through 2008-2010. But the current attention is not about their [...]
Examining Clashes Between Muslims and West
By- Muhammad Farooq Rehmani
The political differences between the Western rulers and the Muslim world have reached a new climax, characterized by the Islamophobia of the West. Thus Muslims all over the world are subjected to severe trauma and punishments meant to break their strong nerves of [...]
Indira Sheikh 1975 accord
By Abdul Majid Zargar
The Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975 is in news once again. Speaking on the sidelines of a
function “Sakshaar Bharat Yatra” organized by JK Bharat Vigyan, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the union Minster of New & renewable energy has
said that nothing was settled in 1975 accord. Earlier [...]
Kashmir is a Flashpoint
By Brig Asif Haroon Raja 21. Feb, 2012
Under the partition plan worked out by the British in June 1947, the 600 princely states had been given the choice of either joining up with India or Pakistan, giving credence to communal demographic milieus and geographic proximity. India in connivance with [...]
Robbed of a future
(21 February, 2012)
By Maliha Lodhi -Three years before the world was captivated by the Arab awakening young people in Indian-held Kashmir were attempting something similar. In 2008 the first flicker of a Kashmiri ‘spring’ was seen. The year witnessed the largest demonstrations against Indian rule [...]
Why India gets away in Kashmir
Aakar Patel Feb 19, 2012
Kashmiris resent, quite rightly, the intrusive presence of India’s jawans on their streets. But the jawans don’t want to be there. New Delhi doesn’t want the jawans there either. So why are they there?
India says the army is in Kashmir because of terrorists, who can only be [...]