Time to upgrade — moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir on December 20, 2018I am in Islamabad and in a week’s time from 8th December to 17th December 2018 attended four Conferences on Kashmir organised by Pakistan House, Policy and Research Forum-Azad Jammu and Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference and Kashmir Media Service and the fourth jointly sponsored conference by International Islamic University — Islamabad and Policy and […]
India-Pakistan dialogue and Kashmir on November 11, 2018The reports of UN Secretary General published on 16 May 2018 launched in New York, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published on 14 June 2018 launched in Geneva and the report of All Party Parliamentary Kashmir Group launched in the House of Commons in London on 30 October 2018, all indict Indian security forces […]
Bilateralism between India and Pakistan on September 18, 2018Relations between India and Pakistan continue to be bedevilled as 71 years pass. It is because the ‘nationalists of opportunism’ in politics far exceed the ‘nationalists of conviction’. India and Pakistan are contributing to peace making around the world. Unfortunately both have failed; to roller skate to good neighbourly relations, own the scope of bilateralism […]
Trifurcation of Kashmir and the hell that will break loose on September 14, 2018Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a descendant of pre-partition Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) politics, displayed on the streets of Lahore in December 1931 in the form of a march against the Muslims of Kashmir and in favour of the Hindu Maharaja. The march was a shocking disrespect to the memory of Kashmiris martyred by […]
PTI, China and Articles of Settlement on Kashmir on August 29, 2018Governance in Pakistan has finally broken away from two families which have dominated the political sphere since the 1990s.Those of us who have seen, known or remember Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto would hesitate before we accept Bilawal Bhutto as our new leader. Like Rahul Gandhi, Bilawal Bhutto has to learn from […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Kashmir test on August 13, 2018Kashmiris living in all the four provinces of Pakistan have voted for National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies on July 25. They have 12 seats in the Azad Kashmir Assembly. The Kashmiri vote in Pakistan represents a strong constituency of interest for the government and the people of Pakistan. They have a provincial, national, regional and […]
Indian Supreme Court has no jurisdiction on August 8, 2018The five petitions filed in the Supreme Court of India as public interest litigation, asking to strike down article 35A of Indian Constitution which empowers the State legislature to define ‘state subjects’, their privileges, and in particular does not allow any non-Kashmiri (Indian) to own any property, and withholds other rights in Jammu and Kashmir, […]
Elections 2018 and Kashmiri demographics on July 23, 2018The last election of May 11, 2013 placed Pakistan on the radar as a country which in addition to Muslims is a home to seven non-Muslim communities. These are namely Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Bahais and Buddhists. Except for the boycott of some 200,000 members of the Ahmadi community, 1.40 million Hindus, 1.23 million Christians, […]
Track-II on Kashmir and Shujaat’s murder on June 25, 2018Shujaat Bukhari’s murder is a great loss. Planned murder of professionals from disciplines, including medicine, education, journalism, law and engineering in Kashmir valley is not a new phenomenon. Shujaat was a decent human being and did not deserve to be killed. He had a lot to contribute, as many others like him. My association with […]
Kashmir, and Kashmiri women on June 7, 2018On hearing the appeal filed by the government, division bench of Jammu &Kashmir (Indian Occupied) High Court, on Saturday 2 June 2018 quashed the bail granted to three Kashmiri women. Additional Sessions Judge Anantnag had granted bail to Dukhtaran-e-Milat chief Asiya Andrabi and her two associates Nahida Nasreen and Sofi Fahmeeda. The three Kashmiri women […]