100 days later
Rarely, says one government official, have I ever seen so much of discipline in Kashmir that they follow the separatist calendar up to the...
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,...
Law of the Indus
by A G Noorani
“The upstream users of an international river are no longer entitled to the unrestricted use of (the waters) of such a...
‘Geelani Opens and Shuts Valley At Will’
Sankarshan Thakur
SRINAGAR
There is a government here, we are told on good authority. There is a counter-government, that is authority itself. Kashmir, not for the...
The Nuclear Threat Escalating In Kashmir
Ultimately, India will need to acknowledge that Kashmir is a disputed territory and resolve it, commentator Hasan Suroor writes in a Middle East newspaper...
Narendra Modi’s Historic Opportunity
Settling Kashmir is a historic opportunity for the Prime Minsrer Narendra Modi, writes former minster and Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz in The Wire
The...
Kashmir: The new context
The big failure in understanding Kashmir has been to see it in isolation of the larger trends and changes that have taken place in...
Kashmir: Repression, Obstacles and Resilience of the Mass Struggle
by Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami and Lal Khan
The inhabitants of Kashmir have been in turmoil and struggle against the forces of the state oppression and...
The Curfewed Eid
by Humaira Maqbool
This past Eid was quite different. It was a curfewed Eid—first time, since 1947. For someone who grew up amid crackdowns, encounters,...
Once we were not so bad
Pakistan does not know what it has lost. India doesn’t recognise where it is winning, Pakistani veteran journalist Khaled Ahmed writes in The Indian...
War is no sport
We have done things that often come back to haunt us, TV personality Farrukh Khan Pitafi writes in The Express Tribune
You wake up one...
What are India, BJP trying to achieve with surgical strikes across LoC?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs a different strategy in Kashmir even as he tries to keep Pakistan out of the Valley, writes Sushil Aaron...
Keep calm & carry on
Pakistan had miniaturised nuclear weapons so they could be launched by small missiles with a range of around 20 kilometres, Irfan Husain writes in...
The die is cast
India’s government may want calibrated strategic escalation, but this genie will not be put back in easily, Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes in The Indian...
Act Fast
By Masood Hussain
By the time, government spokesperson Naeem Akhter refused responding to any question by any reporter, one query had already been thrown: “When...
