Uncomfortable Questions?
While people were seeking answers in the wake of the horrific Lethpora attack, the subsequent situation threw up more questions for Delhi and Srinagar,...
The Cricketer and Kashmir
Cricketer Imran Khan is scheduled to takeover as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 11. He is the first Pakistani politician who is...
Spy Statements
A journalist had a series of joint interviews with A S Dulat, former RAW chief and Assad Durrani, who headed ISI in 1990, and...
‘One of the big failures of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy has been its pure focus...
Ahsan Butt is Washington based Pakistani political scientist who teaches at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His first...
Kashmir’s UN Crisis
In autumn when the diplomats and top politicians from India and Pakistan go to the United Nations for long speeches blaming each other for...
Equating the Wretched
By Shams Irfan
As Kashmiris watched in horror images of Rohingya Muslims being prosecuted and massacred by government forces, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew to...
Barter Bottlenecks
Amid reports that NIA wants barter trade at the LoC to close down, a huge cache of contraband was recovered from a PaK truck...
‘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...
