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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 »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk
Kashmir: Imran Khan’s Litmus Test
PUNCHLINE Kashmir: Imran Khan’s Litmus Test By Z.G. Muhammad On Saturday, August 18, 2018, four days after the Independence Day of the country there was a change of guard in Pakistan. This was not a simply passing baton from one political party to another. It was a paradigm shift inasmuch as it brought to end rotating leadership between the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan People’s Party after decades. In fact, transferred power from the fiefdom of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk
Ambassador Yusuf Buch: As I See Him
Yusuf Buch, as I see him In search of a genuine intellectual voice PUNCHLINE by ZG Muhammad Some time back, I had written there was no Edward Said on our side. My lament was more out of concern rather than critique. I believe that an intellectually stimulating discourse on Kashmir was missing and so far it had been pathetically routine and blatantly ‘de- intellectualized’ projection of the Kashmir case that had vexed it thus far. I had written … Read entire article »
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My Bombay Days: Looking For Manto In the Island of Giants
Nostalgia Island of Giants ZGM The tinsel world of India has an intrinsic charm- a beauty that makes its distinct from any other metropolises in the sub-continent. Those, who adopt the city as their abode remotely move out of it. Those who live in it hardly forget about it. For many, like me, the city in all its shades rings like Dr. Faustus mesmerizing lines on seeing the Helen of Troy, ‘was this the face.’ Like a magnet … Read entire article »
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My Days in Bombay: Searching for Inner Peace in Tinsel City
Nostalgia Off To Haji Malang ZGM Many spiritual experiences can’t be captured in words. Offering late night prayers during sultry days on an islet with the soothing breeze blowing on all sides from the Arabian Sea had a unique spiritual elation. Perhaps, it was as good an experience as that of whirling dance when ‘the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.’ Nevertheless, for me, it had the same inner solace that I experienced as a young … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk
Spymaster Book And Assad Durrani’s Take on the Hurriyat
Thus Spake Spymasters Dulat and Durrani By Z. G. Muhammad In Pakistan, it is rare of rarest happenings when a spy chief in the office or out of office is publicly summoned to GHQ the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi to explain his conduct. A host of army generals in the country created by Jinnah ‘through his indomitable will’ from General Mohammad Asghar Khan, ‘Generals in Pakistan Politics (1958- 1982) to General K.M. Arif, ‘Estranged Neighbours … Read entire article »
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My Days in Bombay: When Kashmir Had a Consulate In Commercial Capital of India
Nostalgia Visa For Kashmir ZGM I had almost entered into a nuptial tie with the Arabian Sea. In the late evenings, I felt incomplete without sitting on a cement bench on the marine drive or the parapets at the Gateway of India and looking into the vastness of the sea. Many a time, the evening zephyr and the high waves in symphony waxed a prosaic person like me lyrical. Someone has rightly said, “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” I almost strolled on a daily basis after dinner to the Gateway of India, which was ten to twelve minutes’ walk from my residence. And whenever I had a friend from Srinagar we would have … Read entire article »
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