The Kashmir issue has evolved. It has no bearing to the dispute that was brought to the attention of the United Nations in 1947. It needs a solution in today's context.
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The slow erosion of plurality, secularism and shrinking political and economic space for the disfranchised has created the situation that exists in Pakistan today. Kashmir seems to be slowly but surely headed the same way
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How a simple administrative matter was mishandled and how competitive politics led it to snowball into a violent stand-off, unleashing dangerous communal passions.
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An account of the journey in the murky world of Track-II diplomacy that went into the clinching of the US-India Nuclear Deal on July 20, 2007 in Washington -- two years and two days after the initial breakthrough in the same city.
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If General Musharraf's model is Northern Areas or even 'Azad Jammu & Kashmir', he ought to first check with Pakistan's own Supreme Court to learn the lack of self-governance in those regions of Kashmir.
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The Mirwaiz had publicly sought the return of the Pandits to the valley. But "meet and greet" functions do not a political dialogue make. The road map and benefits of such a dialogue need to be defined properly.
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Today, the role of mujahideen in propping up a miniscule separatist movement in J&K is acknowledged even by those who were its organisers but, sadly, ten years later I wonder if we will ever learn from history
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The shift to a people-centric approach from the real estate aspect of the problem is welcome indeed, and since all politics is local, it is high time to shift the focus from macro to micro issues. The majority community in J&K, not merely the governm
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...of a very special people who want one set rules for themselves and a different set of rules for others. Kashmiri women be damned. They have suffered in silence in the past and they will continue to suffer in the future.
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Iraq has simply become a convenient excuse for the European nations to put brakes on American ascendancy to the status of the lone superpower.
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