2016 Kashmir Intifida- Case For UN
Where We Erred Z. G. Muhammad “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” For past sixty-seven years, this is exactly, what we the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been doing. Time and again we have not allowed them to ‘write us down in history with their bitter and twisted lies’ but to use a poet’s words every time like a ‘black ocean, … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Converting Sacrifices into Success
PUNCHLINE Converting Struggle into Resolution By Z. G. Muhammad To invite attention, it costs us lives of our youth, hundreds with bullet wounds disabled for life and now scores of children pelleted to blindness. Such huge is the cost we pay to make the world acknowledge the right to self-determination of 16 million people of the State. Interestingly and intriguingly, it equally costs pools of blood to cause a debate in the Indian Parliament over the Kashmir situation and wake up the ruling elite in Islamabad to the hard realities of the Kashmir situation- not one portrayed by neo-progressive journalists of the country immune to the suffering of people. That has been our story for past sixty-seven years. Nevertheless, after offering immense sacrifices and bringing back the dispute on the international diplomatic turf every time … Read entire article »
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They Blind Children of Kashmir? UN Criminal Silence
Punchline Sorry Insha Malik I Have No Answer By Z. G. Muhammad Insha Malik after the Pellet – blinded I am in the dock before a whole generation of our children. Smiles have been snatched from their faces instead hundreds of pellets have been pierced to mesh their cheeks, eyes, and heads. Their pellet-riddled swollen innocent faces with lifeless eye sockets looking like eyes of the tarsier send shock waves to nerves and freeze the blood in the veins. … Read entire article »
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Hollywood Film “Lost Command” And Kashmir
PUNCHLINE “Lost Command” Lessons From Hollywood Movie Z. G. Muhammad ‘The Colonisers or the Occupiers how so big military powers they may be cannot stand before the people’s might. They are bound to meet their Waterloo.’ That was the first lesson; I learnt as a teenager, not from the books on history but a Hollywood film. I was a film buff. In the mid-sixties and seventies, there was a hardly a Hollywood film on the Second World War, Vietnam War and about struggling Africans that I might not have watched in cinemas and learnt a lesson that no tutor or leader was able to teach me. Some of the films on the Vietnam War in the seventies like ‘Coming Home’ and ‘The Dear Hunter’ that broadly said that United States involvement in the Vietnam was … Read entire article »
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Understanding Minority Status of J&K Hindus
Punchline Minority Status Demand? Z. G. Muhammad Thank you the PDP-BJP combine for your soiled machinations. These have enabled people to understand your intents and gird their loins to offset your moves targeted at disempowering them into submission. First, you talked about the abrogation of the Article 370 of the Indian Constitution followed by initiating hideous moves for changing the fundamental character of the State. For decades, the Article 370 had got drowned in the discourses invented by the National Conference. The party had made people believe that it was a bridge between India and Jammu and Kashmir. So strong was the sway of the National Conference discourse that even the resistance leadership saw it as biblical truth and talking about this article they believed was subscribing to the New Delhi’s Kashmir narrative? … Read entire article »
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Job Contract for Inflicting Pain on People?
Punchline Dissent and “Job Contracts.” Z. G. Muhammad Saying ‘all is not well in Jammu and Kashmir’ is not simply an aphorism, but it is a statement that has serious connotations of far-reaching consequences. The State has been flagrantly pursuing policy of gagging the voices of dissent in Kashmir province, Chenab Valley and Pir Panjal. Silencing the voices of the dissent through cheap political machinations of baton has not worked in the past, it is not going to work in the future. Historically denial of the political dissent in the state has always been like a tinderbox just a matchstick away to explode with a bang generating a chaotic situation that drifts away apparently “powerful” like driftwood down the stream. Since 2010, ailing, octogenarian Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah has been virtually latched … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: South Asia Nuclear Flashpoint
Punchline Kashmir: Obama’s Failure By Z. G. Muhammad It would be too early to say with surety, who makes it to the White House in the November 2016, Presidential elections. Nevertheless, one thing is certain that on the afternoon of January 20, 2017, Barack Hussein Obama will cease to occupy all power Oval Office. Like many of his predecessors, he will be relegated to the pages of history as the 44th President of the United … Read entire article »
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