UN Is Responsible For Civilian Killings On LOC.
Punchline The Bloody Line By Z. G. Muhammad On 13 June 1990, when a sledgehammer for the first time hit the Berlin Wall to knock it down it brought warmth to the hearts Kashmiris. For heralding the end of the cold war for the world at large crumbling of the wall was significant. But, for people in Kashmir knocking down of the wall that had divided the Germany into the East Germany and the West Germany … 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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Waiting For Good News- Inside Graves?
That April did not come? An eventful month in which everything would happen Nostalgia by ZGM Let April Come, yes, let April come’ this sentence I often heard in my childhood. I often heard two shopkeepers, one a tailor and another a darner in our Mohalla whose shops were across the road talking about the coming April. They exchanged their ideas aloud that would attract the attention of any passer-by, many a time they would get interested in … Read entire article »
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Why Kashmir Children Thank JNU ?
Punchline The JNU and Us Z. G. Mohammad Two phrases, ‘innocent emotionalism’ and ‘political astuteness’ on Saturday morning instantly oscillated like pendulum inside my mind. The reasons for the two phrases engaging my mind were pictures clicked after the Friday prayers in Nowhatta by photojournalists and published in some dailies on the front-page or popular inside pages. For protests and ding-dong battles between stone-throwing children and para-military forces having become a regular feature after Friday prayers in this … Read entire article »
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Modi and Kashmiris
Modi and the Kashmiris Z G Muhammad – Thursday, October 22, 2015 The Modi-led government needs to be thanked for stirring a wave of discourse about Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing his first rally in Jammu in December 2013, Modi kick-started a fresh debate on Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which provides a mechanism to the government of India to ‘govern’ Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of orchestrating the ‘trademark BJP demand’ for abrogating this article, he sought a debate … Read entire article »
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Pakistan Taking Kashmir To UN?
PUNCHLINE Back To Old Battleground By Z.G. Muhammad Sixty seven years after their birth, India and Pakistan, have failed to resolve their disputes. The relations between the two continue to be on a short fuse. Under the weight of their own inaction, the protracted composite dialogue and back channel confabulations started in 2003 for settling their disputes have once again come to cropper. During past fifteen months, notwithstanding, nudging from Washington and Beijing and the two countries agreeing to … Read entire article »
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Nehru Owes An Explanation to People of India
PUNCHLINE Why Talks Fail? Z.G. Muhammad The much hyped meeting of the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan converted the corporate television studios into war rooms. The reason for the high voltage drama that dominated the television studios and the newsrooms and engaged the two countries in war of words was Pakistan symbolically attaching primacy to the Kashmir Dispute by inviting leaders of the Hurriyat Conference to a reception-meeting with NSA, Sartaj Aziz. The NSA meeting had been slated, after Modi and Nawaz Sharif met in July at Ufa in Russia. Notwithstanding, Pakistan representatives goof up in allowing deletion of Kashmir from the joint statement, it was expected to give a new start to the suspended dialogue between the two counties. New Delhi, had called off the Secretary Level talks in August 2014 … Read entire article »
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