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Was USA Really Interested in Independent Kashmir Or Communist Propaganda
Punchline Red Herring and Truth By Z. G. Muhammad Like Banquo’s ghost in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Adlai Stevenson revisits Kashmir’s political narrative at regular intervals. For more than eleven years his ghost persistently hovered over the political horizons of Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi- inside the court rooms, in the Parliament and public places. It has once again reappeared after a report prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) years ago has been declassified and published in a section … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Featured
Why I Rebutted Noorani?
Z.G. Muhammad Sitting in the backroom of a shop on the fashionable Residency Road, a “friend” of A.G. Noorani, complained that I and few other columnists were not ‘just and fair’ to author of book, ‘The Kashmir Dispute-1947-2012’. Taking an exception to my column in response to the speech of the octogenarian lawyer and writer at the inaugural function of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Greater Kashmir he was of the view that instead of … Read entire article »
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A.G.Noorani On A Slippery Wicket
Z.G. Muhammad On two counts, I thank A.G. Noorani, one, for titling his book as, ‘The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012.’ (No one now in New Delhi likes to call Kashmir as a ‘dispute’. Instead, they grapple with some “palatable” softer phrases for describing the imbroglio.) Two, for bringing question of the ‘accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India’ once again into sharp focus through his speech. In his speech on the release of his book, he made … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk