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Why Appointment of Pakistan Army Chief Is A Global News?
Punchline What Is Big In It? Z. G. Muhammad I have no idea about the general masses. Nevertheless, for over one and half year Pakistan media was breathlessly waiting for November 29, 2016. Some columnists, harboring fears about another military rule suffering from a sort of Tourette’s syndrome consumed reams of papers analyzing if the Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif appointed in November 2013 will bid adieu to his office on the due date. … Read entire article »
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The Kashmir “Civil Resistance” and Peoples’ Resolve and Beyond?
Punchline Intifadas and Peoples’ Amnesia By Z.G. Muhammad In the eighty-five years long contemporary resistance movement of Jammu and Kashmir the 2016 ‘intifada’ so far has been the longest. In many ways, compared to earlier ‘intifadas’ it has been an unprecedented and extraordinary story of sufferings and resilience. In the history of Kashmir and the resistance movements across the globe as rightly said by Ellen Barry of the New York Times, “2016 will almost certainly be remembered as … Read entire article »
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The Siege of Jamia Masjid – Right To Pray?
PUNCHLINE THE SIEGE OF JAMIA MASJID The Saturday morning of the past week for me and perhaps thousands of others was the saddest of all the sadder of the past 134 days of agony and pain. It was soul tormenting headline in the newspapers about congregational prayers not allowed in the Jamia Masjid for the 19th week that set my every nerve ending on fire. This place of worship is not just a marvel of Kashmiri … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Will Be Key Factor in America’s South Asian Policy
Our US Fixation By Z. G. Muhammad It is the confidence of the real stakeholders, the common people that have not allowed the people’s movements to die. It is not of much a consequences whether you call it the resistance movement or the political struggle for past sixty-seven years it has survived all the aggressive and threatening situations because of the resolve of the common people. For not allowing the fatigue to overtake them during the adverse situations, despite some leaders’ betrayals, the common people have time and again risen like a phoenix to be the protagonists the movement. As against the common people, we the white collar people cannot endure the long drawn political battles we turn cynical about it immediately. In our case, this cynicism graduates faster than expected into … Read entire article »
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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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Hurriyat Meeting Sinha- Sessions of Catharsis
Punchline Sessions of Catharsis By Z. G. Muhammad ‘In peace time Kashmir is forgotten. And only remembered when the state is on a boil.’ Whenever people come on the streets, these clichés come handy to political commentators for analyzing the situation and reminding people of the power that all was not hunky dory in Jammu and Kashmir. These commentators are not wide of the mark in stating that during seemingly bouts of peace or after … Read entire article »
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When CM Chose To Bow for Realpolitik
Nostalgia Of Examinations Postponed ZGM Those were the times; the state government had adopted deferment of examinations as the state policy. In the seventies, when my friends and I joined campus the state had got a new chief minister Syed Mir Qasim after the death of Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq in harness in December 1971. Those days it was on the grapevine, the Chief Minister, who had played havoc with the state autonomy in line with … Read entire article »
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