Who will control Kashmir’s water? on May 30, 2018In July 2010, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) recognised access to water and sanitation as a fundamental right. However, they did not specify that the right entailed certain legally binding obligations. The governments of Germany and Spain, with support from many others tabled a resolution to close this legal gap by clarifying the foundation for […]
To whom do Kashmir and Kashmiris belong? on May 28, 2018After a long drawn lull in Indian mood about not talking to the Hurriyat and other stakeholders in Kashmir, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday, May 26, 2018 that the Government of India is ready to hold talks with Hurriyat. If New Delhi is not ‘misguided’ by the revelations volunteered by General Pervez […]
Kashmiris are faced with confusion on May 19, 2018There is a confusion on the ownership of the Kashmir case. If one reads the UN package on Kashmir, Constitution of Azad Kashmir and article 257 of the Constitution of Pakistan, there is hardly any confusion. The jurisprudence of Kashmir case is either misunderstood or we misdirect ourselves. India and Pakistan may have agreed in […]
Understanding the Kashmir issue on May 10, 2018Over a period of time conferences on Kashmir within and outside Pakistan have gained much notoriety. However, there is no substitute for engagement and free expression in settling disputes. I was one of the Key Note speakers in the first session of a One Day International conference with ‘Kashmir: An Unfinished Agenda of Partition’ as […]
Asifa — ‘Justice for our daughters’ on April 18, 2018The fate that befell poor Asifa Bano, an eight year old Muslim Bakarwal girl from the Kathua district of Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) should not come as a surprise to anyone. It is but a replay of 1947, when Muslim girls and women of all ages were rounded up, gang-raped and killed in Jammu. The […]