Kashmir Borders: Blood and Ruin
In Jammu and Kashmir’s borderlands, relentless shelling has reduced homes to rubble and lives to grief. Villages lie in ruins, survivors mourn their dead,...
Kashmir: The War Rewired
India and Pakistan have fought several wars since 1947, but the four-day confrontation in May 2025 was distinct, historic, not for boots on the...
Kashmir: A Forever Battlefield
From the battlefield skirmishes of 1965 to the high-altitude conflict of Kargil and the nuclear brinkmanship that followed, Kashmir has shaped the subcontinent’s military...
Kashmir’s New Nightmare
As border towns are shelled by Pakistan, Kashmir has an airport closed, and the Jammu-Srinagar highway is interrupted by forces of nature. This has...
Kashmir’s Bleeding Borders
The uneasy calm along Jammu and Kashmir’s border was shattered as intense cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan turned Poonch, Uri, and Karnah into...
Kashmir: Almost A War
Massacre of 26 innocents in an off-track Pahalgam meadow, India and Pakistan are engaged in a confrontation that is gradually inching towards a war...
Kashmir: Waiting for the Next Shell
Amid heightened tensions along the Line of Control and the International Border, residents are back to their past horrors. Amid uncertainty, little preparedness and...
Women In Power
The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding around 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when...
Bombs In Pandemic
The recurrence of the border shelling between the rival armies from Kupwara to Poonch at the peak of a pandemic does not augur well...
Bartered Symbolism
Ten years and a few thousand crores of turnover later, Home Ministry found enough of loopholes to suspend the barter trade at the Line...
Fierce Face-off
In the aftermath of the horrific car bomb explosion, India availed the extreme option of getting deep into Pakistan for a hit. Pakistan retaliated...
Bawa Jitto and BSF
Everytime rival armies exchange shells, Kanachak moves to newspaper front pages. The region has fascinating stories that usually get buried under the debris of...
Erasing A Village
The roaring Neelum river on the banks of which once lived a village eventually separated them forever. Then a new situation reunited the two...
Horror Hills
Exposed directly to the extremity of conflict, Kashmir’s serious distressed border belts will take a long time to become normal. More than shells 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...
