‘Foreigner’ Returns
At 11, poverty forced him to flee home and a theft landed him in Lahore. Since then more than sixty years eclipsed. As the...
“I do not believe internet restrictions are consistent with human rights law obligations of...
United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye, recently termed internet ban in Kashmir as collective punishment. In a Skype...
Zaiba’s Homecoming
A Pakistani travel reporter Danial Shah and an Indian photographer Mithila Jariwala teamed up to report Zaiba’s homecoming to Turtuk after nearly half a...
Burhan, Islamabad and Gwadar
Delhi manipulated post-1965 support in Kashmir by permitting a minority political class to grow gradually and dominate the scene. Strategic affairs specialists Pravin Sawhney...
Partition To Tashkent
Moscow's role in the UN has remained fundamental to New Delhi's Kashmir policy. The base for this role was laid when the top Soviet...
Think First, Jump Later
Teenage techie apart, the one thing that made a posthumous Burhan Wani towering in Kashmir’s recent history was his capacity to create a rebel...
Kashmir Needs A New Healing Touch
by Shyam Saran
My association with Jammu and Kashmir revolved around two distinct but nevertheless closely related dimensions. One was in the foreign policy context,...
The Bloody Quarter
Amid street expectations that a protracted bloody strike would force Delhi talk to Islamabad and Srinagar, it took an inverse turn towards the more...
War Woes
TV suggests that India and Pakistan stand on brink of another war. Even Kashmir is thick with battle talk. War means disaster. Bilal Handoo...
War, Is It?
Almost three months and scores of international squabbling matches after, Delhi and Islamabad are inching toward a confrontation to satisfy their national egos. But...
Over To Geneva
After six fortnights, nearly 90 coffins and over 13k injured, neither of the stakeholders has mellowed down. Separatists are unrelenting; the governments in Delhi,...
Quietly Unwilling
Understanding the costs that negotiating any kind of deal can have, Sangh Parivaar is resisting pressure from the political class in Delhi to engage...
That Televised War
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s...
Gilgit Games
Perhaps for the first time after partition, Kashmir dispute is emerging as a major issue for Pakistan. Beijing is seeking guarantees for making substantial...
Kashmir’s Fairer Lords
Kashmir was ruled by many women in ancient and medieval times. Some of them proved more capable than their male predecessors and successors. Sara...
