Mehbooba Mufti’s double-speak
Occupied Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is not a rebel by temperament, but what is happening in her state now seems to be beyond her patience. Reacting to the arrests…
Mufti’s cosmetic compassion
The Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, is back! Once again, she is wallowing publicly, displaying her puffy and syrupy eyes. Wailing to the rolling cameras of her propaganda…
Mehbooba and the BJP
The ruthless use of power can prolong armed occupation but it cannot win the hearts and minds of the people. This is the lesson to be drawn from the lukewarm…
Post-Mufti Kashmir
The president of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed, deserves sympathy in her bereavement, on the death of her father chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. He owed his…
Godse’s India
The ethereal beauty of the Kashmir valley is being assaulted by the ugliness of Indian depredations on human rights and international law fronts in the disputed territory. The disputed status…
Saving Yasin Malik
The life imprisonment sentence given to Yasin Malik by an Indian court has brought the Kashmir conflict back into the international spotlight. The sentence has renewed the Kashmiris' political aspirations…
Criminalizing dissent in Kashmir
Since the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution three years ago on August 5, 2019, Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir has become a land where the silence of graveyards,…
Is Modi using Israel’s tricks?
The policies and strategies employed by the Indian government and the ruling BJP in the recent past to suppress minorities, especially the Muslim community, have a remarkable similarity to what…
Kashmir – a call to humanity
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…
Taliban and the Kashmiris
More than 80 percent of the population in Afghanistan belongs to rural areas, living under the clutches of regional warlords, lacking basic education for everyone, not to talk of girls.…
