Is Musharraf’s Four Point Formula A Way Forward?
Four-Point Formula Hangover Some diplomats and journalists are still reeling under it Z.G. Muhammad In August 1998, General Pervez Musharraf resigned as President of Pakistan. Nine years after, some of the former diplomats and journalists of Pakistan continue to suffer from the hangover of his four-point formula on Kashmir. In their estimation, this half-baked formula that for all purposes surrenders the right to self-determination pledged to people of the state by India and guaranteed by the United Nations … Read entire article »
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Mythology is not History- It cannot pass as history.
PUNCHLINE Mythology is not History And history is not mythology in essence By Z.G. Muhammad I am a simpleton. Little did I know that I had ruffled feathers and made earlobes turn pink till a grocer in Maharaja Bazar told me about it? I had not imagined in wildest of my dreams that my innocuous statement of facts that ‘pluralistic and tolerant society was born with the advent of Islam in Kashmir and till then it was a … Read entire article »
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Mountbatten didn’t promise Kashmir to Sardar Patel
PUNCHLINE Apple Outside Basket By Z.G. Muhammad Z Lord Mountbatten, before sailing across Indian Ocean lock, stock and barrel did yeoman’s service to India- a great favor, which most towering Indian National Congress leaders could not have done. He had an option to leave India ‘with a fatal fragmentation into scores of states to be headed by ‘flocks of glided peacocks, the Maharajas and Nawabs.’ In theory, the British cabinet had also agreed that these rulers ‘who … Read entire article »
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Indian Prime Ministers: Hurriyat Is Credible Party?
New Delhi and the Hurriyat The relationship has got more complicated than ever Z. G. Muhammad New Delhi’s present attitude towards the Hurriyat, particularly after 2016 has been unjust. (In this column, the Hurriyat clubs all the resistance organisation that in 1993 where its constituents). In 24 years history of relations between the Hurriyat and New Delhi, it has not always been so. The two have had a love hate relationships. Let me use a more appropriate phrase; … Read entire article »
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Farooq Abdullah’s One-Time Truth – New Delhi Should Heed To It
Punchline Farooq Abdullah’s One-Time Truth By Z.G. Muhammad For his failure to identify with the popular sentiment- the sentiment of the overwhelming majority, like many others in the “power politics” of Jammu and Kashmir there is more than one reason to distrust Farooq Abdullah’s words. Nevertheless, wisdom lies in giving credit to what is good in any action of a disagreeable or disliked person. Known for making outlandish and weird statements, senior scion of the Abdullah family on … Read entire article »
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Kashmir in Sino-India Standoff
Punchline Sino-India War- Kashmir Angle Z.G. Muhammad A couple of days before the military standoff between India and China made shrieking headlines in newspapers and dominated the 9 PM war rooms; I had started reading ‘Choices- Inside Making of India’s Foreign Policy’ by Shivshankar Menon. The former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India and Foreign Secretary of India in the book sounds optimistic about relations between the two countries because China is the biggest … Read entire article »
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Abdul Majid Zargar Dissects GST Presidential Order
GST Presidential Order It”s a sham aimed at misleading the people of J&K BY Abdul Majid Zargar Goods & Services Tax Act has finally been applied on the State of Jammu & Kahmir. After receiving concurrence from the State Government, the president of India has issued an order under Section 370(1). The constitutional (Application to J&K) Amendment order 2017 paves way for application of GST to State The application of GST Act was preceded by introduction of a resolution in … Read entire article »
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