Kashmir: Dusting Archives To Know Beyond Dulat-Durrani Discourse
Punchline Dusting Archive To Know More Kashmir Dispute Has Solution In Its Archives By Z. G. Muhammad Sometimes a new book for its contested contents makes one dust the archives and look for answers and explanations for the controversies raised in it. In a situation like that of our where people are caught up in a morass of political uncertainty and are struggling for ending it many times, books are sponsored by the establishment to cloud the … Read entire article »
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Spymasters Dulat-Durrani Book and Hurriyat Conference Controversy
Z.G. Muhammad In Pakistan, it is rare of rarest happenings when a spy chief in the office or out of office is publicly summoned to GHQ the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi to explain his conduct. A host of army generals in the country created by Jinnah ‘through his indomitable will’ from General Mohammad Asghar Khan, ‘Generals in Pakistan Politics (1958- 1982) to General K.M. Arif, ‘Estranged Neighbours – India and Pakistan 1947-2010’, have penned … Read entire article »
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Spymaster Book And Assad Durrani’s Take on the Hurriyat
Thus Spake Spymasters Dulat and Durrani By Z. G. Muhammad In Pakistan, it is rare of rarest happenings when a spy chief in the office or out of office is publicly summoned to GHQ the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi to explain his conduct. A host of army generals in the country created by Jinnah ‘through his indomitable will’ from General Mohammad Asghar Khan, ‘Generals in Pakistan Politics (1958- 1982) to General K.M. Arif, ‘Estranged Neighbours … Read entire article »
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My Days in Bombay: When Kashmir Had a Consulate In Commercial Capital of India
Nostalgia Visa For Kashmir ZGM I had almost entered into a nuptial tie with the Arabian Sea. In the late evenings, I felt incomplete without sitting on a cement bench on the marine drive or the parapets at the Gateway of India and looking into the vastness of the sea. Many a time, the evening zephyr and the high waves in symphony waxed a prosaic person like me lyrical. Someone has rightly said, “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” I almost strolled on a daily basis after dinner to the Gateway of India, which was ten to twelve minutes’ walk from my residence. And whenever I had a friend from Srinagar we would have … Read entire article »
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Blood-Spilling On LOC, Solution Lies In Birth of The Temporary Line
Punchline Z. G. Muhammad It was yet another dark day for people living on the bloody line dividing Jammu and Kashmir. On Friday, fire-spewing mortar guns that have been thunderously roaring like man eaters for past seventy years devoured ten more human beings and wounded dozens critically- perhaps disabled for life. Four civilians including a husband and wife and a Border Security Soldier where killed in R. S. Pura and Arina sectors in Jammu. On the other … Read entire article »
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Days in Bombay. Khawaja Bazar in Bombay
. Nostalgia Khoja Bazar in Bombay By ZGM Truly, the metropolis, those days for all its shades and colors, was more entrancing than a rainbow. Then, the orange swallow-tailed flag had not taken over the landscape of the city that for more than a century had seen ‘professional promises’ of many enterprising young men like greatest South-Asian Muslim leader, M. A. Jinnah bloom to full. It had been a sanctuary that did not distinguish between colors and … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Hegemonic Discourses And Azadi
PUNCHLINE People VS Power Z,G. Muhammad Seventy-one years on we have become so used to the ‘hegemonic discourses’ that once a new one is churned out; people laugh it out. Many an important political scientist like Antonio Gramsci have dwelled upon the subject ‘hegemonic discourse’ in great detail and come up with scholarly treatises on the subject. Instead of getting lost in the academic jargons in simpler terms it means the ‘dominant powers’; ‘who have come … Read entire article »
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