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Elections In J&K Never Meant bijli, sadak, and Pani
PUNCHLINE 2017 Elections Demolished Dominant Narrative By Z.G. Muhammad Some sentences, ostensibly inconsequential make much bigger statements that even the author does not intend. Former Indian External Affair Minister in the NDA government, Jaswant Singh (5 December 1998 – 1 July 2002) in his book, ‘A Call to Honour- in Service of Emergent India’ has written about September 2002 Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir, defeat of the ruling party and entry of new coalition in … Read entire article »
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Washington’s New Offer And New Delhi’s Response
PUNCHLINE Kashmir: Truman to Trump By Z. G. Muhammad A few days earlier to Nehru’s death in May 1964 he had shown an inclination towards departing from his straitjacket ‘Procrastination Policy and Diplomacy’ about the Kashmir Dispute by sending Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah as his envoy on an exploratory mission to Islamabad for meeting the President of Pakistan. Perhaps, at this stage after the 1962 India-China War, which had made Nehru bid adieu to his “nonaligned policy” he … Read entire article »
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Nehru-Communist Dubious Role In Kashmir- Response to Andrew Whitehead
Punchline Beyond the “Cut and Paste” Story Z.G. Muhammad Everybody has a right to his ideas. Nonetheless, as Nietzsche says, “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.” A few day back, Andrew Whitehead, a former BBC journalist who reported from Srinagar in the nineties now turned historian had been invited to deliver a talk, Kashmir 1947-1953 by Kashmir University. He … Read entire article »
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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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