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In Stifling Atmosphere Forget History! Create Literature
PUNCHLINE Forget History! Write Literature By Z.G. Muhammad A fortnight back, a single column news item in newspapers announced the death of Mushirul Hasan, an Indian historian and former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia and author of a dozen and half books. His forte has been Islam in South Asia, communalism and birth of India and Pakistan as independent dominions. Except for some occasional remarks in sync with the ‘hegemonic discourse’, he had no direct connection with Kashmir. … Read entire article »
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The New Power Game And Kashmir Resolution
Kashmir in New Power Game By Z.G. Muhammad Once again India-Pakistan relations are getting enmeshed in the emergent ‘neo-cold war between Washington and Moscow. Since Donald John Trump took over as President of the United States, it has become more than obvious. The two countries are apparently yet to learn lesson from the past- that it was they joining the cold war politics, which immensely contributed to the non-resolution of the disputes between and perpetuation in … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Once Again On Floor of the Security Council
Kashmir: Security Council Rise To Occasion Z. G. Muhammad For the past seventy years the war of words, on the floor of the United Nation’s Security Council on the Kashmir Dispute, has been a routine with India and Pakistan. It, in fact, began, on 30 December 1947, when New Delhi sent a cable to the Security Council, through its representative at UN. The cable, making a complaint under Article 35 of UN charter … Read entire article »
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Blood-Spilling On LOC, Solution Lies In Birth of The Temporary Line
Punchline Z. G. Muhammad It was yet another dark day for people living on the bloody line dividing Jammu and Kashmir. On Friday, fire-spewing mortar guns that have been thunderously roaring like man eaters for past seventy years devoured ten more human beings and wounded dozens critically- perhaps disabled for life. Four civilians including a husband and wife and a Border Security Soldier where killed in R. S. Pura and Arina sectors in Jammu. On the other … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Hegemonic Discourses And Word Azadi
PUNCHLINE People VS Power Z.G. Muhammad Seventy-one years on we have become so used to the ‘hegemonic discourses’ that once a new one is churned out; people laugh it out. Many an important political scientist like Antonio Gramsci have dwelled upon the subject ‘hegemonic discourse’ in great detail and come up with scholarly treatises on the subject. Instead of getting lost in the academic jargons in simpler terms it means the ‘dominant powers’; ‘who have come to be … Read entire article »
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LOC Violations: Don’t Kill Us For A Sport
Punchline Don’t Kill Us For A Sport Z. G. Muhammad Who named the line dividing Jammu and Kashmir for past seventy years as the bloody line? Google, which responses to commands on smartphones like genies in old films also could not help me in finding an answer. Nonetheless, it is the most appropriate title given to this artificial line dividing not just the territory but the people of the state- dividing a brother from a brother, a … Read entire article »
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Why Antonio Guterres Is Obliged to Resolve Kashmir Dispute
PUNCHLINE Word with António Guterres Statesmanship would be to give people a right to decide their future. Z. G. Muhammad Kashmir problem is a loud crying forsaken baby of the United Nations Security Council left in a cradle of barbs. For past sixty-nine years, it has been forcefully asking the august body to take it out of this painful situation. And whenever there is a change of guard in the world organization, people of Jammu and Kashmir … Read entire article »
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