Gupkar Declaration An Absolute Fallacy on August 27, 2020On August 22, 2020, the pro-India leadership in Srinagar (Capital city of Kashmir) issued Gupkar Declaration, stating that they “are committed to strive for the restoration of Articles 370 and 35A, the Constitution of J&K and the restoration of the State.” Let us analyze the Declaration dispassionately but from a Kashmiri perspective. The Gupkar Declaration […]
Turkish diplomat leads the UN General Assembly! on June 18, 2020On behalf of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, we American citizens of Kashmiri origin, offer you our sincere congratulations on your election to the august office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly. If the people of Indian occupied Kashmir had the freedom to express their sentiments, you would have, no doubt, […]
Mediatory initiative in Kashmir by the United Nations is indubitable on February 24, 2020The people of Jammu & Kashmir are grateful to Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations for having spared time in Islamabad, in the midst of myriad pressures, to discuss the very grave situation in Kashmir – a situation of a threat to the peace and stability of the South Asian Subcontinent […]
October 27: The Day of Occupation in Kashmir on October 29, 2019The people of Kashmir are observing October 27 as the day of grief, sorrow and above all a day of occupation because it was on this day in 1947 that India sent its army to occupy the land of Kashmir without the consent of its people and in defiance of international norms. So the occupation […]
Should US take ‘NO’ of India as an answer? on August 1, 2019“I would like to categorically state that no such request (mediation on Kashmir) has been made by the Prime Minister (Modi) to the US President,” Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs told the Indian Parliament on July 23, 2019. He added that “Shimla and Lahore accords provide the basis for resolution of all issues bilaterally.” […]
President Trump deserves our gratitude on July 25, 2019The Kashmiri American community has been informed of the deep gratitude felt by the people of Kashmir at the forthright and principle stand taken by President Donald J. Trump for offering his office of mediation to settle the 71-years old dispute between India and Pakistan. President Trump was quoted to have said at the White […]
India has failed to capture the hearts and minds of Kashmiris on July 7, 2019“Kashmir continues to bleed,” said World Kashmir Awareness Forum Secretary-General Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai. While speaking at Mosaic Center, Edmonton and Edmonton Community Center, Alberta, Canada, he maintained, “We see the horrendous brutality, unstopped and unpunished barbarities unleashed against the defenceless population.” “A deliberate, systematic and officially sanctioned massive campaign of brutal oppression launched against […]
The Yusuf Buch era has ended on June 18, 2019“My soul derives comfort from the belief that the participants in my funeral – whether few or many – will be performing an act of the kind that is known to have earned the pleasure of the beloved Founder of our Faith. Its reward lies only with God.” Ambassador Yusuf Buch wrote to the Imam […]
No alternative to self-determination in Kashmir dispute on May 9, 2019The concept of self-determination is a vexing but significant topic in the field of human rights. It is the idea of government by the consent of the governed eternally memorialised in the soaring prose of Thomas Jefferson in America’s Declaration of Independence. Self-determination enjoys universal support and is celebrated in the United Nations Charter, in […]
Changing the status quo in Kashmir on August 20, 2018India is celebrating its 72nd Independence Day to commemorate its freedom from colonial British Raj. We extend our warm greetings to the people of India on their Independence Day celebration. India certainly has the right to celebrate this historic day within its legal boundary. But the world’s largest “democracy” had no such democratic intentions for […]