After 50 years Kashmir is back at UN Security Council on August 19, 2019Kashmir is an intra-disciplinary subject. The constituent disciplines need to go back to the drawing board and check the circles of their wisdom. They will find that leaving Kashmir unattended after the 1251st meeting of the UN Security Council held on 5 November 1965 to 16 August 2019 was in no way a wise decision. […]
Indian attempt to dismember Kashmir and change demography on August 14, 2019BJP Government through a Presidential Order on 5 August 2019 has announced to dismember the State of Jammu and Kashmir (Indian administered) into two union territories, namely, The Union Territory of Ladakh and The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The former would not have a legislature and the latter shall have the legislature. The […]
Delhi is mistaken, Kashmir is not ice cream on August 5, 2019What is happening in the Indian administered Kashmir, would not have happened at all, if National Conference (NC) leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah had not volunteered a good behaviour reference in favour of Indian Security Forces, during his speech at the UN Security Council on 5 February 1948 and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Mohammad […]
Curse of Albatross around Modi’s Neck — Kashmir (Part-II) on July 31, 2019We have witnessed that Hurriet focussed more on contacts with the Governments of India and Pakistan and failed to address the roles of various peoples identified by the United Nations. It has been a serious error of judgment and an unforgivable dereliction in responsibility. We have two UN Reports of June 2018 and July 2019 […]
Curse of Albatross around Modi’s Neck — Kashmir (Part-I) on July 29, 2019Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s visit to Washington has rekindled US and Chinese interest in Kashmir. United States of America and China have set free two albatrosses which are currently hanging as a ‘curse’ around Prime Minister Modi’s neck. President Donald Trump’s revelation that Modi had asked him to ‘mediate’ on Kashmir and that […]
Return of Kashmiri pandits and six district settlement plan on July 22, 2019Loss of home is one of the worst thing that has ever happened to any human being. Even prophets have expressed their grief on the loss of home. Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley in 1990s and there are unspoken five generations of Kashmiri Muslims, who have also been forced to leave their homes. Kashmiri Pandits […]
UN update on the Human Rights situation in ‘Indian and Pakistani administered Kashmir’ on July 15, 2019All rumours spread through planted news items published on both sides of cease fire line and on social media, that India had succeeded to force the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to scrap the publication of the “Update of the Situation of Human Rights in Indian-Administered Kashmir and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir from May 2018 […]
Government of Azad Kashmir and Kashmir case on July 7, 2019Kashmir case hinges on the expression of a free will of the people under the United Nations supervision. Government of Azad Kashmir has been constituted to perform two well specified duties under UNCIP Resolutions. These include to provide “better Government and administration of Azad Jammu and Kashmir until such time as the status of Jammu […]
Golden Temple, Amarnath Cave and the Muslims on July 1, 2019Muslims of Punjab and Muslims of Kashmir have a historical role in the construction of Golden Temple of Sikh faith and in finding the Amarnath Cave of Hindu faith. Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru of Sikhism, requested Sai Mian Mir, a Muslim Pir of Lahore, to lay the foundation stone of Golden Temple of Amritsar […]
A dignified solution to Kashmir dispute on June 24, 2019In a newspaper exclusive interview on 20 June 2019 Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has repeated his first offer of a dialogue made to New Delhi on 19 May 2019 at the Seminar held to commemorate the martyrdom anniversaries of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone. At the seminar he said, “The Hurriyat is hopeful that […]