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Understanding Jinnah
The Express Tribune > Opinion Understanding Jinnah By Zahid G Muhammad Published: December 25, 2010 Share Tweet Email The writer is a Srinagar-based journalist and editor of Peace Watch Some two decades back, I read a book by Raj Mohan Gandhi, titled Understanding the Muslim Mind. The book is about eight great Indian Muslims, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan, who shaped the destiny of the Muslims of the subcontinent. I thought of doing a similar book … Read entire article »
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14 July ‘International “Dead Eyes Day”- A Call To UN
Punchline ‘International “Dead Eyes” Day’ Z.G. Muhammad Sitting on my desk on Saturday to write my weekly column, instantly I remembered it was 25 March. From 2008 the day is observed as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. A memorial named as the Ark of Return has been erected at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to honor the victims of slavery permanently. Such memorials, perpetuating … Read entire article »
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The Fifth Province Dilemma- Gilgit-Baltistan And Kashmir Problem
Punchline The Fifth Province Dilemma By Z.G. Muhammad It is the first step towards the “new Great Game”. That is how experts are looking at the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in China’s ambitious project ‘One Belt, One Road vision of land and sea connections between Asia, Europe and beyond. The economic, political and geostrategic fallouts of this project have generated multiple discourses across the globe including in Pakistan- it expects a windfall of economic benefits from the … Read entire article »
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Saadar Court, Srinagar: Repository of Legal Giants
Nostalgia Of A Temple of Justice Creatively blending facts with fiction, he told us that here was a lawyer who won a case without carrying any books to the court ZGM The long winter vacations, with all their loveliness had some sluggish moments. When I got bored with homework or got stuck up on a mathematics question, I liked to go out and sit with my friends on shop fronts in our Mohalla. One of our favorite … Read entire article »
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A Nuclear Flashpoint: Resolution of Kashmir Dispute Can Reduce Risk
Punchline Kashmir A ‘Nuclear Flashpoint’ Z.G. Muhammad Kashmir is a nuclear tinderbox threatening catastrophe to the South-Asian region. In New Delhi, denial to this statement is galore. In the second week of December 2016, India’s former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and his team in the wake of 2016-Intifada visited Kashmir as ‘self-appointed troubleshooters’, and had a meeting with a group of civil society activists. One of the participants during discussions trying to make a point described … Read entire article »
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Debate In Indian Universities On Kashmir- A silver-lining
PUNCHLINE Indian University Campuses and Kashmir Dispute By Z.G. Muhammad The seventy-year-old Kashmir ‘Dispute’ or ‘Problem’ is graduating towards a resolution. To some friends, overawed by New Delhi’s denials this pithy observation may sound creating false hope. Even a ‘false hope’ as novelist Lois Greiman has said, ‘is better than no hope at all’. Nevertheless, the aim of the statement is not creating false hope. It is based on analysis of the situation as I see it … Read entire article »
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Tales of Downtown Boy Of Srinagar:
Tales of downtown Srinagar: A book that talks of resistance and culture in Kashmir books Updated: Feb 25, 2017 09:09 IST Hilal Mir Hindustan Times Scenes from Lal Chowk, Srinagar in November 2016.(Waseem Andrabi/HT Photo) For the past nine years, Zahid G Mohammad has been writing a column titled ‘Nostalgia’ in the Greater Kashmir newspaper. In his columns, Zahid attempts to reconstruct the politico-cultural history of old Srinagar, where he was born, simply by writing about the mundane and the important facets of mid-twentieth century life in the city. Two collections of these columns have appeared so far: Srinagar: My City, My Dreamland and, recently, Srinagar, The City of Resistance and Culture: Story of Downtown Boy. Both have been published by Gulshan Books Kashmir. Read more ‘Bullet for bullet’ Pakistan policy will worsen J-K situation: Farooq Abdullah Kashmiri youth … Read entire article »
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