Geo-political analyst and an ex-advisor to the Balochistan government discusses the implications of the UAE-Israel peace deal in the region at large, and how the deal might affect the foreign policy of Pakistan in the coming weeks and months.

Afghan expert argues that the intra-Afghan negotiations process is going to be thorny, tardy and marked by hardliners on both sides; with the classical establishment in Kabul viewing Taliban as terrorists and using regional warlords as a bulwark against them and the Taliban seeing no place in a future setup for these warlords.

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In this issue, Dr Moeed Pirzada’s well-researched piece, “Kashmir, Gurdaspur and Mountbatten” points out that design to forcibly take over  Kashmir was already there; he critically examines if Maharaja could have even thought of “accession” with India without the award of “Gurdaspur” to Indian Union in the Radcliffe Award of Aug 16, 1947.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan.

GVS collected a number of classics and popular books from across South Asia looking at the partition, consequences on those affected and how it changed lives for so many forever.

GVS collected a number of classics from across South Asia looking at the partition, consequences on those affected and how it changed lives for so many forever.

Any NFC award, going forward, should try to rationalize the concerns of centre and provinces, in terms of fiscal burden sharing given their individual responsibilities. Also, to more sustainably allay these concerns, revenue generation responsibilities of each should be emphasize, so that the size of the cake or divisible pool also gets significantly enhanced.

Could Maharaja Hari Singh even think of not joining Pakistan if Mountbatten’s handpicked man, Radcliffe, had not awarded Gurdaspur to India? Was “Kashmir’s Accession with India” and India’s war in Kashmir possible without Gurdaspur? Why was Mountbatten bent upon securing Kashmir for Nehru?

Yaqoob Bangash, an esteemed South Asian historian, argues that both India and Pakistan’s new maps are based on an erroneous understanding of what constitutes Gilgit-Baltistan. While it is not in the Indian interest in the correct legal position or aspirations of people in the region, it is high time that Pakistan should recognize the correct position.