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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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Discourse

This is a section of opinion and analysis, mostly based on the current issues.

BJP’s Plan B?

by Khursheed Wani Almost two months after the fall of Mehbooba-led BJPDP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir, the formation of a new government does not...

The Farooq Factor

by Khursheed Wani During the past 22 years, the conduct of elections has been used as an effective tool in Kashmir to change the political...

Shift In Zabarwan

by Khursheed Wani Over the years, the Srinagar Raj Bhawan has become more important in dealing with the affairs of governance in Jamamu and Kashmir...

An Embarrassing Embrace

by Khursheed Wani From the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeated the rhetoric second time on August 15, that people of...

Abject August

By Khursheed Wani Historically, the month of August has not been too august for Kashmir. The creation of two independent states of India and Pakistan...

Letter From Lahore

by Huma Sadaf Pakistani politics has been using the Kashmir card since the creation of Pakistan and there have been hardly any exceptions. The noteworthy point...

Hopelessly Precarious

By Khursheed Wani Kashmir is going through one of the most critical periods of history. The actors on the stage read ‘stakeholders’, are busy in...

First Timer’s Raw Ambition

By Khursheed Wani “Someone asked him what he would count his biggest achievement in life,” Mehbooba Mufti told a group of journalists, before her government...

The UN Report

by Khursheed Wani The report on the state of human rights in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, currently divided between the administrative control of...

An Editor Socialite

by Khursheed Wani The killers had no intention to alert or intimidate Shujaat Bukhari. They came to eliminate him and left the site only after...

A Fruitless Visit

by Khursheed Wani Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Kashmir in the penultimate week of the holy month of Ramzan amid a lot of speculation on...

Walk The Talk

by Khursheed Wani On a chilling December day in 2015, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi distastefully declared that he did not require any advice on Kashmir,...

JRL Has Evolved

by Khursheed Wani After many years, a complete shutdown across the far and wide of Kashmir Valley was observed on May 21, on the anniversary...

After The Ceasefire

by Khursheed Wani For the second time during ongoing Kashmir insurgency, the government in New Delhi has announced a unilateral ceasefire in the month of Ramzan....

Deadly Drive

by Khursheed Wani The reporters who have covered the Kashmir conflict for more than two decades know that the situation has slipped back to the...