Tag: Kashmir
Modern-day India reaffirms Quaid-e-Azam’s Two-Nation theory
Sarmad Ishfaq | As loudly as it echoed in the period leading up to 1947, the two-nation theory still resonates in modern-day “secular” India. The...
Kashmir: Still knocking at the door of world’s conscience
Asif Luqman Qazi | People ask about the historic significance of February 5 being celebrated as Kashmir Solidarity Day. The answer is, it is the...
India and Pakistan cannot go head-on in conflict, PM Khan
News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that for two nuclear-armed countries like India and Pakistan, opting for an armed resolution is suicide....
State assembly dissolved in Indian Kashmir: report
AFP | The governor of India's Jammu and Kashmir state dissolved the local legislative assembly late Wednesday in a sudden move that could lead to...
Small men occupying big offices: PM tweet blasts Modi
News Analysis | The recent step by the Indian government led by Hindutva leader Narendar Modi has dashed hopes for a reinvigorated Pak-India peace process....
What led to 1965 war? – Part 1
Saleem Akhtar Malik l The 1965 War Kashmir is simmering with a brazen homegrown resistance movement against the Indian state. Since last year, Kashmir is back...
How Pakistan planned and prepared for the 1965 war against a...
Saleem Akhtar Malik l Planning and Preparation Force Ratios War plans are based on the threat assessment. Let us have a look at the relative force ratios...
The Despicable American Media Coverage of Pakistan Elections
Sher Ali Tareen | The American mainstream media boasts a voracious appetite for caricaturing, simplifying, and neatly categorizing non-Western people and life, especially when it...
Calling Kashmir issue a territorial dispute is in itself dehumanizing?
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai | November 12, 2017. New York. “It was an honor to have an hour-long meeting with Ambassador Yusuf Buch at his...
What Imran Khan means to Indian occupied Kashmir
Murtaza Shibli | Ghulam Nabi Ganai, a 67-year-old retired executive engineer, is elated about Imran Khan’s victory. As I enter his home in Frisal, a...
An overview of political landscape of Pakistan – Asif Haroon Raja
Asif Haroon Raja | Birth of Pakistan was seen as a miracle of the 20th century. Its survival under extreme odds was indeed a bigger...
Fear of Khalistan: India demands UK to disallow Social Justice meet
News Analysis | India has issued a demarche to the UK protesting a meeting convened in London by separatist organization Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) next...
India, Pakistan ex-spies spark furore with secret book project
AFP | It began with hushed conversations in hotels dotted around Asia, and resulted in a nearly unthinkable book: "Spy Chronicles", a secret collaboration by...
India conducts successful nuclear flight test
News Analysis | India successfully flight tested its nuclear-capable Agni-5 missile on Sunday morning, according to the office of the country’s defense minister. This is...
Mourners subjected to force in Srinagar, dozens injured
News Desk | Dozens of people were injured when Indian troops and police personnel used brute force on the funeral of a martyred youth in...
Pakistan and India agree to abide by 2003 ceasefire
News Analysis | Pakistani and Indian military officials in a rare move have agreed to avoid artillery exchanges in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir,...
Why Spy chronicles’ won’t rescue Nawaz?
Waqas Shabbir | Some term them untold; few call them old wine in a new bottle. The significance of the much-talked-about ‘Spy chronicles’ may not...
Intentional or unintentional sabotage?
Waqas Shabbir | Disgraced former PM Nawaz Sharif, willingly or unwillingly, has opened a floodgate of negative commentary, following the eruption of a mega-scandal. His...
India leads Internet shutdowns in South Asia
News analysis | People in South Asian countries experienced at least 97 instances of Internet shutdown, a barometer on freedom of press and expression, between...
New violence hits Kashmir as death of tourist condemned
AFP | Hundreds of protesters clashed Tuesday with Indian forces on the third day of deadly troubles in Kashmir as the disputed Himalayan territory reeled...
Eight-year-old girl murder trial moved out of IOK
News Analysis | India’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the trial of eight men accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl to...
Jinnah’s dream of South Asia is only possible when India joins...
Sudheendra Kulkarni | The problem with both India and Pakistan, which is also a major source of the unending hostility between our two countries, is...
Second India teen raped, set on fire: police
News Analysis | A 17-year-old battled for her life Monday after being raped, doused in kerosene and set on fire, the second such case to...
Bajwa doctrine also holds an olive branch for Modi’s India –...
News Analysis | In what appears to be a surprise for the political commentators of South Asia, a think tank has divulged that Pakistan’s military...
Violence, rape and other fear mongering tactics used by Indian forces...
Taimur Khan | Torture, rape, psychological oppression, vandalizing of property and enforced disappearances are few methods of a sustained terror campaign unleashed by the state...
Congress surrenders to the BJP?
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Hindus account for almost eighty percent of India’s population. Yet, over the major part of the seven decades since partition of British...
Takeaways from Korean summit
M K Bhadrakumar | From the Indian perspective, the Korea summit at Panmunjom today heralding the ‘end of the Korean war’ is a poignant occasion....
Asaram Bapu case: The Culture of Rape in South Asia
News Analysis | Asaram Bapu, an Indian spiritual guru; a religious leader with a massive fan base from around the world, has been awarded a...
PM Abbasi raised voice to ensure justice for people of occupied...
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi has raised the voice of people residing in occupied lands and stressed the utmost need for...
After shamed at home, Modi welcomed by protests in London
News Analysis | Indian Premier Narendra Modi is facing a tough time at home and outside India, with recent rape cases denting his credibility and...
Kareena Kapoor criticized for marrying a Muslim
News Desk | A Twitter user slammed Indian actress Kareena Kapoor for marrying a Muslim and naming her son Taimur despite being a Hindu. The...
Indian leaders’ rhetoric reflect Anti-Muslim atmosphere
News Analysis| A BJP legislator stirred the communal pot in Uttar Pradesh and claimed that leaders of opposition parties were "anti-nationals" because they espoused religious...
Crimes against Women plague India
The details of the ordeal of an eight-year-old girl held captive, starved, sedated and repeatedly raped inside a ‘devisthan’ in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua...
Hindu Nationalists demand release of Asifa Bano’s rapists
News Analysis | A group of Hindu nationalist has rallied behind a group of rapists who subjected an 8-year-old Muslim girl to sexual violence, before...
Indian celebrities troll Afridi over Kashmir tweet
News Desk | Indians in large numbers are bashing Shahid Afridi for the pro-Kashmir tweets. Shahid Afridi's tweet attracted a wildfire of criticism from Indians...
US expects India to engage Pakistan in Kashmir talks
M K Bhadrakumar | The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs in the US State Department Alice Wells is visiting India...