Can India seduce Kashmiri politicians for a new political arrangement? on March 16, 2020After all Delhi administration had to set free President of Awami National Conference Begum Khalida Shah and its Vice President Muzaffar Shah under the orders of Jammu and Kashmir High Court at Srinagar and set free former Chief Minister and Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah by revoking his detention orders. The politics in the habitat […]
WION Global Summit — are we losing focus on Kashmir? on March 10, 2020India has aggressed and re-occupied the part of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, previously outsourced to it, under an international arrangement, to hold a free, fair and secure Plebiscite on the right of self-determination. De facto after 31 October 2019, India has annexed the part administered by it. De jure it is a violation […]
Hindus in India and Hindus abroad have a duty to Muslims on March 3, 2020Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar also known as Babasaheb Ambedkar was a Dalit, Indian jurist, and social reformer who authored the Indian constitution. Ultimately he was forced to tell Gandhi that he did not find any future as a Dalit under the constitution and in 1956 along with half a million fellow Dalits he embraced Buddhism. The […]
Ambassador of Kashmir and need for a course correction on February 24, 2020Prime Minister of Pakistan keeps enormous confidence and holds on to a convincing narrative, in his defence of the aggressed people of the Valley. After the UN General Assembly speech, he has continued to use all available occasions to flag the Indian suppression. So far, so good and he should be commended. Is that enough, […]
UN Secretary General’s visit of Pakistan — his role under Article 99 of the Charter in Kashmir on February 17, 2020Welcome Mr. Secretary General to Pakistan and have a rewarding stay, in a country which is home for major religions of the world. It has hosted the Afghan refugees and 2.5 million Kashmiri refugees (five generations) recognised in UN Security Council Resolution 47 of 21 April 1948. Your participation at the International Conference on Afghan […]
Indian action in Jammu and Kashmir and option of Azad Kashmir forces on February 11, 2020Government of India has taken two main actions on 5 August and 31 October 2019 against the habitat and the people placed under her temporary administration. We seem to have overplayed (as a genuine concern) the action of 5 August 2019 of placing the people under curfew and disconnecting them from rest of the world […]
Holding a plebiscite on first November 1950 to Kashmir Solidarity Day on 5 February 2020 on February 5, 2020Although United Kingdom had proposed a timetable to hold a free, fair and secure Plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir in October 1948, arguing that after October Kashmir would have a snow fall and voters would find it difficult to participate, the actual resolution for scheduling a date came on 14 March 1950. The resolution gave […]
Kashmir and positive duty of the Security Council on January 20, 2020I met the President of Pakistan, Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, DG ISPR, President and Prime Minister of Azad State of Jammu and Kashmir and people from various other disciplines. The common thread of discussion in these meetings was the continued lockdown and internet blockade of 168 days and Kashmir case. Prime Minister of Azad […]
War as an instrument of international relations — voices from Kashmir at ISSI on January 13, 2020The siege of the ‘historic’ and ‘legendary’ people of Kashmir, waiting for a UN supervised Plebiscite to exercise their “own self-determination”, by Indian occupation forces has crossed 161 days. BJP Government failed to estimate that the Kashmiri resistance and the scenes of naked aggression committed against the people of Kashmir, would touch the conscience of […]
Failure to keep track of history lessons on Kashmir on January 6, 2020My family like any other family in the Valley remains behind the locked doors from 05 August 2019. The twin impact of the brutality of Indian soldiers guarding them from outside and the extreme vagaries of the winter weather could hardly be imagined. It would be a situation of distress and helplessness. The entire population […]