If Wishes Were Horses
Umar Mukhtar on the flip side of diplomacy between India and Pakistan involving sports
Kabbadi, mankind’s oldest game, has emerged as the new dungal between...
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...
The ‘Saffron’ Line
Delhi and Islamabad went back to their stated positions and cancelled the scheduled NSA talks. This time, again, Kashmir was the main factor. Amid...
Why Imran Khan Skipped Taking Up Forced Cremation of Sri Lankan Muslims?
SRINAGAR: Visiting at a time when Sri Lanka is facing the music for cremating the Muslim victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistan Prime Minister...
Yearning to cross over
In four years of its operation, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus has ferried 11,000 passengers across the Line of Control to meet their families. Thousands are...
Core issue not core of talks
Three wars and 60 years gone by but Indian and Pakistan have focused attention on solving Kashmir only twice despite a long history of...
Fingers Crossed
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
What would...
Taking on the Left, the Right, and Centre
Tarique A Bhat
We are feeling a morbid lack of interest in life and sort of empty inside? Completely lacking in motivation. Reason: We are obsessed with politics and tend to look at the government and politicians as the cause of all problems in our lives.
Yes, we are fed up with politics of more than 75 years now. I am talking of many who don’t neatly fit into the red or green. Kashmir is mired in a whirlpool of uncertainty. Our politicians are without the requisite political will to overcome deliberately designed structural impediments to solving the problem.
We are feeling a morbid lack of interest in life and sort of empty inside? Completely lacking in motivation. Reason: We are obsessed with politics and tend to look at the government and politicians as the cause of all problems in our lives.
Yes, we are fed up with politics of more than 75 years now. I am talking of many who don’t neatly fit into the red or green. Kashmir is mired in a whirlpool of uncertainty. Our politicians are without the requisite political will to overcome deliberately designed structural impediments to solving the problem.
Making Kashmir G20 Ready
For months, Jammu and Kashmir's administration has been working overtime to ensure the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting is an incident-free success. Given 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,...
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 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...
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...
The Kabul Spillover?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics,...
Weary of Kashmir summers
Rush of tourists and Chidambaram’s ability to walk in the downtown Srinagar may indicate some semblance of normalcy in Kashmir but the message of...
