Can Kashmir Make To UN Once Again
Z.G. MUHAMMAD Smaller Default Larger Is Pakistan going to remind the United Nations that Kashmir Dispute is its abandoned baby- crying loudly for an immediate attention? This question popped in my mind this week on reading two columns, one by India’s iconic editor of India Today Shekhar Gupta and second by Arul Louis, an internationally known journalist and editor of ‘the New York Daily News’. Gupta while brilliantly analyzing impact of humiliating defeat in Assembly elections of Delhi … Read entire article »
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Minus Tariq Ali’s essay, the book: ‘Kashmir’s case for Freedom is Good
Z.G. MUHAMMAD It is a sad story. In our premier academic institutions, hardly any serious work is done on the Kashmir problem. Notwithstanding insularity of our own academicians and ‘scholars’, Kashmir continues to be abuzz in a good number of academic institutions in the world. In a number of policy institutions along with other important subjects, concerning global peace Kashmir continues to maintain its primacy. It is read, written and talked about.- every year a number … Read entire article »
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Why Kashmir Failed Solutions?
Move Beyond ‘Cricket Diplomacy’ Even if it breathes some fresh air into the relations between the two countries PUNCHLINE Z.G. MUHAMMAD Smaller Default Larger The relations between India and Pakistan are more brittle than glass. Even if put in a steal frame of agreements, they breakdown on a slight touch. In May last year at the swearing in ceremony of Narendra Modi grand bonhomie was seen between newly elected Prime Minister and Nawaz Sharif. But it took just a meeting between Kashmir leaders and Pakistan, High Commissioner to turn this cordiality sour. There was nothing unusual about this meeting. Meeting between Kashmir leaders and Pakistan diplomats on the eve of India-Pakistan dialogues on Kashmir have a history. In fact such meetings were greatly encouraged by New Delhi after the 2004 composite dialogue. For meeting President … Read entire article »
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Amdist War Cries- Why Durrani was in New Delhi.
Z.G. Muhammad India and Pakistan relations are on the rocks. This not a new phenomenon. Since their birth, history of the two nations is plagued with suspicion, trust-deficit, skirmishes and wars. Principal cause for the war of attrition between the two countries has been Kashmir. Throughout, their history international community has nudged them to resolve the dispute and write an essay in harmony. The current phase of strained relations between the two counties have cast thick … Read entire article »
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Tell Children Their Story
Of all the stories we have, this one is for you Z.G. MUHAMMAD Then hues of sky had a meaning. Every shade had its own connotation. Every colour had a story to tell- different tinges told different stories. Different shades of dawn and dusk had different meanings. It was not the aesthetics of the colours that filled people’s hearts with joys – but it was the fear that had become part of their psyche for centuries that … Read entire article »
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Unpardonable Sins – And Our Tragedy
PUNCHLINE Unpardonable Sins Z.G. Muhammad Have I committed an unpardonable sin? This has been my predicament for quite some time. Two of my college time bosom friends Abdul Majid and Ghulam Hassan, have not been talking to me for almost forty years. For their deeply entrenched annoyance with me, they did not even invite me to the marriages of their children. In our college days, that were as turbulent as the years of dissent 2008-2010, we exchanged lots … Read entire article »
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Not born with Blue blood but Red Blood in Veins- Story of My Birth
Story of My Birth I was not born in some granite-floored nursing home. No Anglo-Indian nurse rocked my cradle in the British missionary hospital near the foothill of Koh-I-Maran. I did not tumble into this world in the maternity ward of the State Hospital- the hospital that has been witness to the macabre of 1856, when needle workers and shawl weavers were chased by the cavalry of the Dogra rulers for protesting against brutal and bigoted … Read entire article »
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