Peace Watch » Archive
With the GST Job done- Is change of guard in state on cards
Punchline The GST Job Done- and now contemplate a change of guard Z. G. Muhammad Seventy years is a long time for “governments” to master the art of creating proxies for foisting their will on dissenting population. In dealing with Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi has phenomenally mastered this art. It has used power as bait to see the state fully integrated into the Union of India in contravention to the temporary ‘Instrument of Accession, ” and conditions … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk, Point of view
Hoax Kashmir Committee ?
PUNCHLINE Salahuddin and Beyond By Z.G. Muhammad On Saturday morning, the moment I sat at my desk to write my weekly column the news alert on a corner of the computer read: “No change in Kashmir policy, says the US.” The news item, with Washington dateline, read that the US State Department has stated that the designation of Hizbul Mujahedeen leader Syed Salahuddin as a “global terrorist” does not reflect a change in the US policy on Kashmir which it sees a disputed territory. The State Department has designated Salahuddin a “global terrorist” for some of his statement in 2016 in which he had allegedly “vowed to block any peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict etc.” Many analysts failed to mark two important points in the US statement. One it has described … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take
Why Antonio Guterres Is Obliged to Resolve Kashmir Dispute
PUNCHLINE Word with António Guterres Statesmanship would be to give people a right to decide their future. Z. G. Muhammad Kashmir problem is a loud crying forsaken baby of the United Nations Security Council left in a cradle of barbs. For past sixty-nine years, it has been forcefully asking the august body to take it out of this painful situation. And whenever there is a change of guard in the world organization, people of Jammu and Kashmir … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk, Point of view
Creative Resistance Humbles Mighty Powers- Fallen Chinar Turns Narrator
Punchline Art, Literature and Resistance By Z.G. Muhammad When a brush, a goblet of paint and a sheet of canvas sends shockwaves to the citadels of power. When a strip of celluloid causes the mighty to jitter in their high rise buildings. When a tune played on a Santoor shatters window panes of the bastions of the authority. When verses like “You may write me down in history—but still, like dust, I’ll rise” or “Write down! I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take
Kashmir Dispute and International Court of Justice?
PUNCHLINE Taking Kashmir To ICJ By Z.G. Muhammad Can the Kashmir Dispute, once again make it to the center stage of the International Politics and the United Nations? This question started making rounds in diplomatic and media circles in India and Pakistan, and few other world capitals after New Delhi choose to take the case of one of its officers Kulbushan Jadev under the custody of Pakistan on the charges of spying to the International Court … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take
Youth: The Protagonists Of Kashmir Struggle
PUNCHLINE OURS IS A YOUTH MOVEMENT By Z.G. Muhammad It is old tactics much tried in the past but failed. Conjuring alternative narratives and churning out one after another ‘hegemonic discourse’ are old Machiavellian strategies for weaving confusions around genuine political struggles for derailing and defeating them. The ‘hegemonic discourse’ do not help in the resolution of the problems but in perpetuating them. Instead of recognizing the harsher realities of the Kashmir Dispute that has bedeviled India-Pakistan … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take
Exiled Kashmiris: Story of Pain and Agony
PUNCHLINE Deaths in Exile By Z.G. Muhammad In our agonized contemporary history there are many an untold ‘crippling stories of sorrow.’ Like many other struggling nations, we also have had our share of stories of exiles in 1819, 1846, 1947, 1965, and 1990 and after. Most of them will be never told. Sadly, the stories of pain and suffering of those exiled so far have not been themes of our poetry or subjects for our writers. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk