Demystifying ‘MMM’
Buoyed by the success of 2008 coordination committee of separatists which wrested back the state land from Amarnath Shrine Board, Mutahida Majlis-e-Mashawrat was formed...
My Unfinished Assignment
by Syed Asma
In June 2013 I proposed of having an interview with Mehbooba Mufti. In politics, Mehbooba is a great success story. Being an...
Azad Retires
At 71, Ghulam Nabi Azad completed his last term in the Rajya Sabha. His political career spanned over 41 years and saw many highs,...
“I am sure there is some force working behind the scene to create chaos...
Anjuman Shar-e-Shian president Agha Syed Hassan Al Moosvi Al Safavi tells Tasavur Mushtaq that unity among Shias and Sunnis is the only way forward...
Separated Apart
With election process in Kashmir concluding rather peacefully local security apparatus and New Delhi are upbeat to claim a victory over separatists. But separatist...
Modi-Mufti Accord?
Kashmir history is replete with treaties and accords. Certain agreements between Delhi and Srinagar involve the people of Kashmir directly, unlike all others. In...
LS Polls: Allies and Alliances
Only two of the six Lok Sabha berths in erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state will have a black-and-white contest between BJP and Congress. The...
Collateral Damage
Days after estranged Syed Ali Geelani transferred ‘his property’ to an autonomous trust, Jama’at-e-Islami cried foul. The controversy brought once fair weather friends face...
Man of the Match
In the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, state’s oldest political party was pushed to the knots. But what continues to dominate the table talks...
Enjoy Thy Lord!
Politicians in Kashmir not only enjoy the privilege to frame laws for the masses but impunity to mend them! With negligible conviction rate politicians...
A Kishtwar Commission
After his interim report absolved NC leader Sajad Kichloo in December 2013 paving way for his return to Omar Abdullah’s council of ministers, Justice...
Political Grapevine
When a government was in place, Kashmir was desperately waiting for its fall. After it collapsed under its own weight, now the most popular...
The League Mitosis
Peoples League is one of the few parties that claim to be the front runners in Kashmir’s resistance. The emergence of a new faction...
Fear and Exile
The killing of a senior party worker literally sent PDP foot-soldiers looking for save heavens outside south Kashmir. Suhail A Shah reports what it...
The Political Collapse?
History will remember 2019 as the rough year for politics in Kashmir. For the first time, both the faces of Kashmir’s ideologically driven politics...
