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Why Did Plebiscite Front Die?

Why Did Plebiscite Front Die?

  Z.G. MUHAMMAD   On a cold but not freezing February afternoon pushing my way through crowded and crushing Residency Road to a nearby bookshop I was stopped by an old time Plebiscite Front worker. Given to intolerance of some contemporary “top” leaders, “clerics” and their “hangers-on”, initially, I thought, he has not liked some of my writings about once towering leader or his scions. There was no anger on his face but from  expressions on his face, I … Read entire article »

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Musharraf’s Formula and Kashmir Leaders

  Resurrecting A Dead letter Weave a discourse around the basic framework Punchline Z.G. MUHAMMAD     Some days back, I decided not to talk about “them” or their travel to the country that was ‘conjured into statehood by the force of indomitable will’ of a leader – the will that ironically even our towering leadership lacked. I started believing whether, I talk or not, the sweeping winds of politics are there to drift away the vessels with no strong ideological moorings and anchors. Knowing, chronicles are   replete with instances, that those suffering from ideological infidelity  having been washed away like straws down the streams of history, I started believing that historical forces  will throw up a leadership that will ‘significantly alter the course of history and even modify the map of the world’. It was the recent … Read entire article »

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Hurriyat (M) Going Pakistan What For Is The Question.

  Story of Paradigm Shift Z.G. Muhammad   Are we a paranoid people- you and me included?  Is it,   fear rooted in my mind that makes me ponder over something, I would in normal course dismiss as nonevent and of consequences. Chairman APHC (M) and four other members of his executives’ council are visiting Pakistan in November.  What is ‘big deal’ about it?   For past many years, these leaders have been visiting Islamabad and meeting men in power. Now their visits to the country and meeting leaders’ is no news. Why should it engage my attention, is the question. There were times when Kashmir leader visiting Islamabad made big news. In 1964, when Sheikh Abdullah   at the behest of Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru visited Islam it made big news on two counts: one, Sheikh was … Read entire article »

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Saga of Kashmir Failures- Is Hurriyat Conference Dying?

Saga of Kashmir Failures- Is Hurriyat Conference Dying?

  It has been an enigmatic story that of birth with a bang and death with a whimper.  In our state political organizations wither away much before they realize their political objectives but irrespective of their melting down political sentiments that these organizations articulate survive… The melting starts as and when   the political organizations   fail to synchronize their political stand with that of the popular political sentiment. My belief is grounded in the seventy-one year political history … Read entire article »

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Hurriyat Conference’s Battle Within

Hurriyat Conference’s Battle Within

It was a storm in teacup. That is how I looked at the ripples caused within a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHCM)   by the statement of its former Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat. He had stated that the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir ‘were not practically applicable in the present time’. He also asked the multi-party forum to join hands with the National Conference and the PDP and drafting a common minimum program … Read entire article »

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