Karakoram’s Newerland
Islamabad’s fresh dose of autonomy to the erstwhile Northern Areas have created a lot of heat and dust. R S Gull profiles the region’s history...
Talk Walks, Finally
As Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue emerges from the ruins of Composite Dialogue between Delhi and Islamabad, Masood Hussain analyses the surprising resumption of engagement and...
Siachen: Can This Ice Melt?
After Siachen Glacier devoured more than 130 men in a single avalanche early this month, Islamabad is again seeking a way out of the...
The Second Hearing
The US Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) hearing on Kashmir - Jammu and Kashmir in Context, was literally dominated by five women,...
US Kashmir Policy: In Retrospect
Once interested in an overt role, US off late preferred a hands off approach, or at most a covert role in Indo-Pak tangles on...
Quite Dialogue
New Delhi has ordered a ban on prepaid mobile telephony in Jammu and Kashmir citing “serious security concerns”. This comes just after the announcements...
‘Memogate’ And Kashmir
Efforts at resolving Kashmir have often involved people who never exist in the public imagination, and they are used to achieve informally what is...
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...
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...
Secret Dialogue?
It would be interesting to see how the back-channel engagement between India and Pakistan evolves in the weeks and months to come and whether...
Daring Diplomacy?
Two non-descript NGOs run by shady managers flew 27 far-right European MPs to Delhi for what experts say, “controlling to conversation”. After meeting the...
Military solution won’t work
Wajahat QaziThe gory daylight murder of three young men at the peak of their lives in a busy market square happens soon after the...
The 2009 Failure
Amid the roars of guns at the LoC, when Nawaz Sharief wished seeking Obama’s help on Kashmir, it angered many people from Delhi to...
Red Army and Taliban
At a time when the South Asian diplomacy would remain preoccupied with contesting narrative in the United Nations, new situations have erupted in the...
Gobbling Dragon
New Delhi is countering leaked reports of Chinese incursions by denials, But China’s steady encroachments in Ladakh are an open secret. KASHMIR LIFE assesses...
