News about India-Pakistan secret talks has surfaced either on its own or has been let to surface, to test the general mood of people in Pakistan and more so the mood in Kashmiri circles. The main Kashmiri circles are the people in the Valley, Azad Kashmir, 2.5 million Kashmiri refugees living in the four provinces […]
Merits of India-Pakistan Peace initiative and merits of Kashmir case
Peace between India and Pakistan is a UN Charter obligation and good neighbourly relations between India and Pakistan remain a common purpose of the leadership of the two countries. A direct war or a subterranean proxy at the end of the day have their sell by date. The common interest in peace, progress and development […]
Relationship between Government of AJK and Government of Pakistan
If Government of Azad Kashmir and Government of Pakistan do not act quick and interface with each other, in the interests of the People of Jammu and Kashmir according to UN template and other existing jurisprudence, there is danger that we may become guilty of signing off the habitat and people living on the Indian […]
Myanmar Civil Resistance nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and Kashmir
It is for the first time that a Civil Disobedience Movement(CDM) of a peopleagainst the military regime has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Six professors in social science at the University of Oslo in Norwayhave nominated the Civil Disobedience Movement of Myanmar for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.The deadline for nominations for […]
Kashmir & the role of the United States, United Kingdom and Pakistan
The Prime Minister of Pakistan has asked India to take the first step and create an enabling environment for moving forward on Kashmir. Pakistan army chief General Bajwa in his keynote address at the first Security Dialogue held in Islamabad has invited India “to bury the past and move forward”. There is no other way […]
Merits of Gilgit-Baltistan assembly resolution and options for Pakistan
Jammu and Kashmir since the first enumeration of 1873 has commonly been called at home in official records and abroad in books as “The State of Kashmir”. It comprised of the provinces of Jammu, Kashmir and the Frontier Districts. The provinces were governed by Governors and the Frontier Districts by Wazirs. On 12 April 1901 […]
Military Commanders have a jurisprudence to address
A well-known Indian in the Valley and former RAW chief A S Dulat has provided a clue in his article published in The Tribune about the actors involved in the back-channel dialogue that has resulted into a return to 2003 cease fire agreement. Personnel in the two military commands are not Walter Mitty Character – […]
India and Pakistan back to 2003 cease fire agreement and emerging questions
It is a good news for the people of India, people of Pakistan and the people of Kashmir thatfrom midnight Wednesday 25 February 2021, the military command of India and Pakistan have decided to return to the cease fire of 2003. India has accused Pakistan of more than 10,500 incidents of cease fire violations and […]
India desperate for a character certificate
India has once again fallen to her old reflexes for getting a “good character certificate” to cover her crime scenes in Jammu and Kashmir. India may have succeeded to put together a group of 20 envoys representing OIC, EU and some other countries, the issue at core would remain whether these countries would risk to […]
It is not ‘India’s Jammu & Kashmir’
5 August 2019 would not have happened if India had not found us dithering and derelict in prosecuting the Kashmir case in accordance with the jurisprudence of UN Resolutions.Our approach so far has been a kitchen sink approach and we have forgotten that 5 August 2019 is just the beginning of a grand plan that […]