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Seeding Confusion in Kashmir Narrative and Rent A Writers
Punchline Seeding Confusion In Kashmir Narrative By Z.G. Muhammad Seeding confusion for subverting the resistance movements is an old trick. It is a lethal weapon that the dominant forces have been using for altering the paradigms of the struggles for justice and fair play. For subverting the resistance movements, and dissuading the struggling people from their goals the dominant forces confound the public mind by imposing alternative discourses and conjuring dominant phraseology. For, fostering and fortifying the dominant discourse … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Point of view
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 »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk
Can Kashmir Make To UN Once Again
Z.G. MUHAMMAD Smaller Default Larger Is Pakistan going to remind the United Nations that Kashmir Dispute is its abandoned baby- crying loudly for an immediate attention? This question popped in my mind this week on reading two columns, one by India’s iconic editor of India Today Shekhar Gupta and second by Arul Louis, an internationally known journalist and editor of ‘the New York Daily News’. Gupta while brilliantly analyzing impact of humiliating defeat in Assembly elections of Delhi … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take
Heightened War Of Nerves – India and Pakistan
Fireworks for Obama? Z.G. Muhammad The war of nerves has become cardinal guideline for relations between India and Pakistan. It has not paid in the Past. It is not going to pay now. It is not going to pay in future also. Immediately, after their birth as independent dominions the two countries got embroiled in the dispute over future of the Jammu and Kashmir. After landing of Indian troops at 9 A.M on October 27, 1947 at Srinagar, battle in Kashmir between India Pakistan started – it continued for twenty months. The actual fighting came to an end after military representatives of India and Pakistan under auspices of the Truce Sub-Committee of United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan signed the Cease-Fire Line Agreement on 29 July 1949. This agreement had come … Read entire article »
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Who Are They To Tell You This
Books And ‘National Narratives’ Z.G. MUHAMMAD Four new books, published from Srinagar during May vied for space in my small work place. Out of them, two have been written inside the Central Jail, Srinagar by two prisoners Dr. Muhammad Shafi Khan Shariati and Dr. Muhammad Qasim. Both convicted for life. Ess Ahmed Pirzada and Shabnam Qayoom have authored the other two. The book by Dr. Muhammad Shafi Khan Shariati is an Urdu translation of controversial book ‘The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order’ by Samuel P Huntington. Translated into almost every important language in the world the book has been for past two decades at the centre of discussion in academia, passageways of power in the West and the Muslim World. Seen as gospel for Muslim bashing the adversaries of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk
2014- Kashmir and Afghanistan
Z.G. Muhammad Some fifty-nine years back Josef Korbel wrote, ‘India and Pakistan continue to dissipate their wealth, their strength and their energy on a near fratricidal struggle in which the hitherto almost unknown State of Kashmir has become the physical battleground.’ Trillions of dollars are spent on building arsenals at the cost of development of tens of millions living a sub-human life. People of the two countries have not been paying heavy prices for the wars … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk