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...
A Marathon Struggle
Once termed to be the ‘juggler vein of Kashmir’, Baghlihar symbolizes an achievement that has laid a strong foundation for the state’s future forays...
Caught In Between?
Coinciding with the 50 days of lockdown, the Kashmir story migrated to America along with the Prime Ministers’ of India and Pakistan. Though the...
Turkey Disaster
As a shallow, inland earthquake of a huge magnitude flattened a vast belt straddling the border between Turkey and Syria killing thousands of people...
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...
Gilgit Gambit
A year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was rolled back, the Chinese army is on the borders in Ladakh and Pakistan...
‘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...
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...
Talk Is Not Walking
There hasn’t been any statement from Delhi and Islamabad in the recent past that indicates some form of an engagement is ongoing between the...
The Diplomatic Secret
An American diplomat whom India calls the mother of Hurriyat Conference, was recently in the middle of an espionage drama. But in 1991, this...
A Red Hearing?
There were some highly uncomfortable questions that American Congressmen asked its own officials on Kashmir. The hearing by a Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs,...
G20s Desert Summit
Despite three prominent absentees’, the G20 Youth Summit in Ladakh was an impressive success, reports Raashid Andrabi
The Sino-Indian standoff has kept the world's attention...
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...
The Afghan dilemma
Indications of USA and the UK preparing to exit from Afghanistan has sent the subcontinent into a tizzy. Due to clash of interests between...
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...