India’s obnoxious AFSPA law
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah came to Delhi and valiantly pleaded his case for lifting the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from certain parts of the state. But…
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah came to Delhi and valiantly pleaded his case for lifting the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from certain parts of the state. But…
The Senate of Pakistan, the upper house of parliament, has endorsed a resolution asserting that the Supreme Court’s judgment on military courts encroaches upon the legislative prerogatives of parliament. The…
Kashmir cries. The world turns a deaf ear. The institutions play dumb. The governments prefer a blind eye. That has been the state of affairs for 70 years. What is…
“The political dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan have long been centre-stage. This is not a conflict frozen in time. It is a conflict that has robbed millions…
After the slaughter of millions of human lives as a result of World War I, the League of Nations was created on January 10,1920 to ensure international peace. Later, Lenin…
JAYA Bachchan wants rapists to be lynched publicly. In doing so she wants to take the struggling Indian democracy closer to Saudi Arabia, where a bloodthirsty Muhammad Saad al-Beshi gets…
On August 5, India revoked Article 370 and Article 35-A of the Indian constitution through Presidential Order C.O 272 to alter the special constitutional status of Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK). By…
The Indian media boasts an illustrious history. Born during the freedom struggle against the British colonial rule, it quickly mastered the rules of the game, working around the stiff curbs…
Like numerous policy implications of the so-called war on terror, one particular implication has been to equate the struggle for independence and the right to self-determination of the people in…
I lost my last newspaper job because of a rather emotional piece I wrote on the mindless killings in Kashmir way back in 2010, most of them stone-throwing young boys…