Abdul Majid Zargar Reviews- The Meadows, Kashmir 1995
There are now enough grounds to order reinvestigation of 1995 abduction & killing of six foreign tourists following startling revelations by a new book that they were killed by pro-government counter-insurgents fully aided & abetted by the security forces . The book – “The Meadow, Kashmir 1995 – Where the terror began, by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark”, succinctly details the reasons & circumstances leading to the brutal killings of five out of six abducted innocent foreign tourists. The two British Authors, who specialize in investigative journalism and have worked for UK’s “The Sunday Times” and “The Guardian” for nearly 18 years and have been honored with ‘Foreign Correspondents of the Year’ award in 2004 and ‘British Journalists of the Year’ award in 2009, have made painstaking efforts in lifting … Read entire article »
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Islam Inaugurated Intellectual liberity in Kashmir
Introduction Man is born poet. To express himself has been an innate and intrinsic urge with him. Initially he might have responded to the ‘sounds of natural forces; birds and animals; fear and joy through shrieks, cries and guffaws.’ The pitch and quality of these initial expressions might have ‘by degrees invented words and language.’ When did first word tumble in the world is a question that would continue to engage the attention of scientists in … Read entire article »
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Jammu Since 1947 Abdul Majid Zargar tells the tale
The recent communal incidents in district Rajouri of Jammu province need to be viewed in the historical perspective. Primarily, because it is essential to lay the lessons of the past before the present & future for those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it . These events, were Ostensibly provoked by Parveen Togadia, international president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, but in effect it is the continuation of the RSS agenda followed in Jammu since 1947 .In that year, Muslims of Jammu were systematically annihilated under a well thought out plan by RSS under Maharaja Hari Singh’s auspices. Their percentage in population was reduced from 61% to 38% thus changing the demographic character of the province. As Gandhi himself said on November 27, 1947, “This (genocide) has not been … Read entire article »
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Dr. Abdul Ahad Guroo – By Abdul Majid Zargar
Covert action has remained and will continue to remain a controversial instrument of state policy for India in Kashmir. Translated into execution, it allows it to adopt the smoke screen of plausible deniability, wherein the action itself may be visible and verifiable but its links are concealed, so that it can easily deny any involvement. Covert actions in India falls within the domain of the intelligence community generally (though not often) without the consent and … Read entire article »
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Indira-Sheikh Agreement 1975 Revisited
INDIRA-SHEIKH ACCORD ABDUL MAJID ZARGAR The Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975 is in news once again. Speaking on the sidelines of a function “Sakshaar Bharat Yatra” organized by JK Bharat Vigyan, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the union Minster of New & renewable energy has said that nothing was settled in 1975 accord. Earlier his brother Dr. Mustafa kamal stated that the accord was not signed by Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah blissfully forgetting that his father assumed the chief Minstership of … Read entire article »
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Summing up SRINAGAR (Book Review)
ZGM’s Nostalgia shapes into a book bringing alive the stories from the city that once was Kashmir in recent years has witnessed a surge of books. Most of the books tell us the grim stories of the two decades. Most of these books have a single theme this one, but this book – Srinagar My City My Dreamland – is a compendium of articles written in Nostalgia column of Greater Kashmir over last few years, touching … Read entire article »
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