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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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Flood Affected 2014 And Lip Service
PUNCHLINE Flood 2014 Lessons Learnt and Not-learnt Z. G. Muhammad It has been a long wait. For eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours, five million flood effected people have been waiting for relief and rehabilitation from the Mufti Syed led government. For failure of the NC-Congress coalition governments to rise to the occasion during the 7 September 2014 floods, in 2015, elections people voted the Abdullahs out of power. For Abdullahs that had reigned supreme in the power … Read entire article »
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India Pakistan Proxy War – Abdul Majid Zargar
INDIA,PAKISTAN-PROXY WARS (By Abdul Majid Zargar) India & Pakistan are once again engaged in war of words & bullets at Borders. After the aborted meeting between National security adviser of India & Pakistan’s adviser to PM on foreign affairs pursuant to Modi – Nawaz Joint statement in Russian city of Uffa , both the Countries appear as distant as ever. Even after 68 years of their independence, neither nation has learnt to live in peace, leave alone … Read entire article »
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Hurriyats Not Third Party?
Simla Agreement Syndrome Z.G. Muhammad India and Pakistan, on August 23, 2015 after cancelling National Security Advisors talks added another sad chapter to their long history of acrimony and mistrust. In July, Prime Ministers of two countries during summit in Ufa had agreed upon holding talks at the level of National Security Advisors. Notwithstanding, scepticism about holding of these talks looming large, after political commentators in New Delhi started looking at the joint statement issued at the … Read entire article »
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