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2014- Tough Time In Indo-Pak Relations
Question Marks on Indo-Pak Relations How India and Pakistan relations are going to shape after May 2014 will be a big guess at present. Z.G. MUHAMMAD Some political analysts believe that if elected Narendra ‘Modi will adopt a tough foreign policy that could see relations deteriorate with China and Pakistan’. It is no surmise. During the election campaign there have been many pointers towards this. In February at election rallies in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in a very caustic language Modi asked Beijing to “leave behind its expansionist mindset and work for development and prosperity”. China counts Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet and claims the entire territory of the state. Calling the territory as “disputed” Beijing time and again has been saying that India should not “trigger disturbance” but resolve the dispute … Read entire article »
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Is Asking For Collective Instrospection Blasphemous In Kashmir
Z.G. MUHAMMAD ‘I stumbled when I saw’. On seeing leaders committing faux pas of far- reaching implications, I often remember this quote from Shakespeare’s drama King Lear. The past sixty-seven years history of Kashmir is replete with instances, when our leaders like Gloucester, one of the characters in King Lear despite eyes ‘walked blindly into trouble.’ History threw many an opportunity for us for ending the political uncertainties but leadership stumbled to see them. And even … Read entire article »
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“Vajpayee Syndrome” and Kashmir Leaders?
The ‘Vajpayee Syndrome’ Will India’s new PM follow Atalji’s model on Kashmir Z. G. MUHAMMAD The enthusiasm in the Ilahaqi political parties in the state for the sixteenth Lok Sabha elections is on the expected lines. For these parties it is an opportunity for testing their strength for the 2014 Assembly elections. Nevertheless, very high expectations in a section of the “pro-freedom” leadership that ‘Narendra Modi led NDA government if elected will move an extra mile for resolving … Read entire article »
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K. H. Khurshid: Student Private Secretary of Jinnah Khurshid
Remembering K. H. Khurshid Z.G. MUHAMMAD It is unimaginable. It sounds like a fairy tale. Nevertheless, it is a true story; history had cast role for a young student leader from Srinagar in contributing his mite in ‘altering the course of history, modifying the map of the world and creating a nation state.’ The twenty-year-old student leader who earned distinction of joining the team of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a man of ‘sartorial elegance’ and ‘indomitable will’ – … Read entire article »
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Nodding-Goat Leadership is Dangerous
PUNCHLINE Z. G. MUHAMMAD Seventy days after there will be new government in office in New Delhi. Few days back the Shankh for one of the most thrilling electoral battles in India was blown. The elections to be held in nine phases spread over thirty-six days will be one of the long drawn battles for the Raisina Hill in the Lutyens Delhi. Although a bit early, yet it is a big question, who will inherit throne of New … Read entire article »
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Leaders And Suffering Uncertanties in Kashmir
PUNCHLINE Z.G. Muhammad Sipping tea amidst clinking of knives and forks in a busy city restaurant, a columnist friend, with an intriguing smile on his face said that “now they have decided to take head-on any opinion makers or leaders who oppose their moves for a dialogue – reconciliation.” He was referring to a statement by a group of ‘leaders’ in the morning newspapers. Initially, I dismissed the remarks as premature and out of context. Ostensibly … Read entire article »
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Memomirs of Munshi Ishaq- An exposure of Kashmir’s hideous politics
Z.G. Muhammad The whole truth about the ‘actual happenings’ and behind the scene developments between 1946 and 1947 in Jammu and Kashmir is yet to be told.’ End of the autocratic rule in 1947, did not usher in a ‘popular rule’. In fact, the struggle against the autocratic rule, which started in 1924, with the presentation of a memorandum to Lord Reading, ended up with the installation of a ‘neo-fascist’ regime in 1947. The neo-fascists, while … Read entire article »
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