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Nehru Owes An Explanation to People of India
PUNCHLINE Why Talks Fail? Z.G. Muhammad The much hyped meeting of the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan converted the corporate television studios into war rooms. The reason for the high voltage drama that dominated the television studios and the newsrooms and engaged the two countries in war of words was Pakistan symbolically attaching primacy to the Kashmir Dispute by inviting leaders of the Hurriyat Conference to a reception-meeting with NSA, Sartaj Aziz. The NSA meeting had been slated, after Modi and Nawaz Sharif met in July at Ufa in Russia. Notwithstanding, Pakistan representatives goof up in allowing deletion of Kashmir from the joint statement, it was expected to give a new start to the suspended dialogue between the two counties. New Delhi, had called off the Secretary Level talks in August 2014 … Read entire article »
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88 Year Old State Subject Law in Peril Cautions Ab. Majid Zargar
REMOVAL OF ARTICLE 35A-PART OF AN AGENDA By Abdul Majid Zargar A writ petition challenging Article 35A of Indian constitution has been filed before Supreme Court of India by a RSS backed think tank. It may be recalled that this article was inserted in the Indian constitution through a presidential order promulgated under clause (1) of article 370 effective from 14th day of May 1954 to afford a protective shield to various rights bestowed by our own constitution … Read entire article »
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Moves to Change Demography of Kashmir And Leadership
Punchline Sadiq’s spirit Around Z.G. Muhammad In the history of nations sixty seven years is a small period. Nevertheless, sometimes scars left even after six months misrule ooze painfully for decades and make generation to suffer. G.M. Sadiq, the last prime minister and first chief minister died some forty four back. But, like the ghost of Banquo in Macbeth, he has been repeatedly appearing on the political scene of the State. Now for past five months, with … Read entire article »
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Changing Power Equations and Resolution of Kashmir
‘BURDEN OF HISTORY’ Z. G. MUHAMMAD Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister, Sardar Patel were not on the same page on overwhelmingly Muslim majority State becoming part of union of India. Nehru, was obsessively working for it since 1946. And after Lord Mountbatten arrived in India as the last British Viceroy, Nehru reviving his old friendship with him ‘never lost an opportunity to ‘arguing in favour of Jammu and Kashmir joining India.’ In June 1947, before Mountbatten leaving for Srinagar for meeting Maharaja Hari Singh, Nehru handed over a memorandum to the Viceroy arguing for accession of the state to India- and this memorandum became Viceroy’s bible on Kashmir. Contrary to Nehru’s overzealousness about Kashmir, many historians have recorded that Sardar Patel was not interested in the State joining India. … Read entire article »
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Shimla Agreement- A Diplomatic Feat by Abdul Majid Zaragar
SHIMLA AGREEMENT-VICTORY IN WAR & DEFEAT IN DIPLOMACY By Abdul Majid Zargar Noted columnist Zahid G. Mohammad has written an incisive article on Shimla agreement reached between India & Pakistan in July 1972 after the latter’s defeat & dismemberment in 1971 war with India. It was published in a local English daily on 6th July 2015 and disseminates much of the information surrounding this international agreement. However, there is still some information on this agreement which is … Read entire article »
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Prem Nath Bazaz’s Writings and Kashmir Freedom Movement
. Revisiting Bazaz’s Writings. By Z.G. Muhammad I do not like Pandit Prem Nath Bazaz. So don’t many others in my tribe. Let me use a harsher word, I hate him for his Machiavellian role in 1935, in misguiding the protagonist of the movement led by the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference. The Muslim Conference had largely adopted the 17 point memorandum presented in October 1924, by the Muslim intelligentsia to Viceroy Lord Reading seeking justice for beleaguered … Read entire article »
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Deleting Kashmir From Ufa Joint Statement
Punchline ‘Statements’ and History By Z. G. Muhammad Crooked historians cannot change the history. Like ripe pods spilling beans, history ultimately reveals the truth. In the joint statement issued a fortnight back after the summit meeting between Prime Ministers, Narendra Modi and Mian Nawaz Sharif, at Ufa, Russia, there is no mention about Kashmir. The meeting was held, after eleven months diplomatic standoff. New Delhi, had called off the Secretary Level talks in August 2014 in protest against Pakistan High Commissioner, New Delhi meeting the Hurriyat leaders for taking them on board before the talks- a practice in vogue for past many years. It sounded, ironic when Pakistan team in Ufa agreed to delete Kashmir from the joint statement. Many important Pakistani analysts and seasoned diplomat pooh-poohed Nawaz Sharif and his team for … Read entire article »
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