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Of Continuous Mourning And Writers Role
Punchline Wounds Won’t Heal Z. G. Muhammad ‘Forgetting our recent agonizing past and getting embroiled in the “hegemonic state discourses” is our trait. As a nation we have the shortest memory’. Often recounting our predicament, out of disappointment and desperation many of us use this statement for self-flogging.’ That we are a nation with the shortest memory. Is this a terse formulation of truth? This question haunted my mind, when a promising computer engineering student Gowhar Dar 22, with … Read entire article »
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Why We Kashmiris Need To Introspect.
Punchline Why Blame Others By Z. G. Muhammad New nation-states, as history testifies, appeared on the world map just after eight or ten years of struggle. A number of colonized nations after ten or twenty years struggle made the super powers to submit before their will and determination. Sixty seven years after, despite a track record of continuous struggle and enormous sacrifices, why we continue to be caught up in the whirlpool of political uncertainties. In answering this question that … Read entire article »
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Modi and Kashmiris
Modi and the Kashmiris Z G Muhammad – Thursday, October 22, 2015 The Modi-led government needs to be thanked for stirring a wave of discourse about Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing his first rally in Jammu in December 2013, Modi kick-started a fresh debate on Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which provides a mechanism to the government of India to ‘govern’ Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of orchestrating the ‘trademark BJP demand’ for abrogating this article, he sought a debate … Read entire article »
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Why I say 4pt formula was a sell out.
Punchline Talk From Ivory Towers? Z. G. Muhammad Eight years after its unceremonious burial four point formula of General Pervez is back in the news. The reason is not that it has found new takers on either side of the LOC. It has shot into headlines on television channels for former Pakistan Foreign Minister, Khurshid Ahmed using it for promoting sales of his newly released book, ‘Neither A Hawk Nor A Dove’. In this 850 page book, which … Read entire article »
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A Ticking Bomb God Save us
PUNCHLINE Devious Discourses By Z.G. Muhammad For past fifteen months, there has been hardly a day when a new ‘hegemonic discourse’ was not set into motion in the state. Some were brought into public domain directly by Delhi and some through its hanger-on politicians in the state. Articulating decades old intentions of the BJP for abrogating Article 370 of Indian Constitution, Narendra Modi BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate in first election rally in Jammu on December 1, 2013 in fact kick-started the renewed ‘hegemonic discourses’ by calling for a debate on validity and efficacy of this Article. That, when seen in the light of discussions in the Indian Constituent Assembly at the time of its introduction testifies Jammu and Kashmir is a Dispute whose future is yet to be decided and it has to be there … Read entire article »
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Beef Discourse Is A Ticking Bomb
PUNCHLINE Devious Discourses By Z.G. Muhammad For past fifteen months, there has been hardly a day when a new ‘hegemonic discourse’ was not set into motion in the state. Some were brought into public domain directly by Delhi and some through its hanger-on politicians in the state. Articulating decades old intentions of the BJP for abrogating Article 370 of Indian Constitution, Narendra Modi BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate in first election rally in Jammu on December 1, 2013 in fact kick-started the renewed ‘hegemonic discourses’ by calling for a debate on validity and efficacy of this Article. That, when seen in the light of discussions in the Indian Constituent Assembly at the time of its introduction testifies Jammu and Kashmir is a Dispute whose future is yet to … Read entire article »
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Pakistan Taking Kashmir To UN?
PUNCHLINE Back To Old Battleground By Z.G. Muhammad Sixty seven years after their birth, India and Pakistan, have failed to resolve their disputes. The relations between the two continue to be on a short fuse. Under the weight of their own inaction, the protracted composite dialogue and back channel confabulations started in 2003 for settling their disputes have once again come to cropper. During past fifteen months, notwithstanding, nudging from Washington and Beijing and the two countries agreeing to … Read entire article »
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