India & Kashmir: two views
OLD ‘principled’ view: India is priority for Pakistan’s foreign policy. It is the principal adversary and only country with which we have gone to war. It has brutally repressed the…
Decoding India’s gamble in Kashmir
At an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the India-Pakistan conflict in Kargil, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of attempting to maintain relevance through "terrorism" and "proxy war".…
World Must Stop India From Use Of Rape As Weapon Against Kashmiris
International Community should commit to end India's use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), said experts in a roundtable debate in line of Kashmiri Women's Resistance Day. Legal…
Sick Kashmiris feel deadly consequences of India-imposed blackout
Sanaullah Dar was due to undergo surgery to remove a tumour in his bladder. Four months later, he was dead, with doctors blaming a lockdown imposed by New Delhi on…
India marginalises Kashmiri freedom struggle leaders by detaining dozens
More than five months after they were detained without charge, dozens of freedom struggle leaders from Indian-occupied Kashmir remain imprisoned as the government in New Delhi seeks to marginalise them,…
India, Kashmir & deterrence
KASHMIR is generally described as a nuclear flashpoint. Reference to Pakistan and India being nuclear-armed neighbours is often cited in times of heightened tension between the two countries and as…
The Indian media fails Kashmiris – again
Recalling the stellar role of the Indian media during the infamous internal emergency imposed by the late Indira Gandhi, Lal Krishna Advani, the BJP patriarch now forcibly retired, famously noted:…
Indian media demonizing Kashmiri men
The music videos began appearing on social media within hours of the announcement by India's Hindu-led nationalist government that it was stripping statehood from the disputed region of Kashmir that…
India marginalises Kashmiri freedom struggle leaders by detaining dozens
More than five months after they were detained without charge, dozens of freedom struggle leaders from Indian-occupied Kashmir remain imprisoned as the government in New Delhi seeks to marginalise them,…
Media feel the pinch in Indian occupied Kashmir
When plainclothes police arrested newspaper editor Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, his peers in Indian occupied Kashmir saw it as just another attempt by New Delhi to squeeze the media working in…
