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Can Lahore Deceleration Be Starting Point for Dialogue on Kashmir?
Punchline Web of Uncertainties By Z. G. Muhammad For past couple of days, a video clip has gone viral on social media the Facebook. Many Kashmiris across the dividing line have been liking and sharing it. The video is outside the routine posts and videos posted and shared by Kashmiris living across the world. It is not about the martyrdom of some Kashmiri youth or human rights violations. It is not about the release of a work of art … Read entire article »
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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 »
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Hurriyats Not Third Party?
Simla Agreement Syndrome Z.G. Muhammad India and Pakistan, on August 23, 2015 after cancelling National Security Advisors talks added another sad chapter to their long history of acrimony and mistrust. In July, Prime Ministers of two countries during summit in Ufa had agreed upon holding talks at the level of National Security Advisors. Notwithstanding, scepticism about holding of these talks looming large, after political commentators in New Delhi started looking at the joint statement issued at the … Read entire article »
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International Aid and Kashmir Floods
Towards Rebuilding Kashmir The exemplary resolve shown by the people of Kashmir, coupled with the international aid, can set us on the path of rebuilding Z. G. MUHAMMAD Resilience has been part of our story. Lurching from crisis to crisis, we have learnt to navigate the toughest challenges. Famines, floods, earthquakes, incursions, coercions and oppression never took away our resolve to live with dignity and honour. ‘Let us not submit to oppression’ and never give up during adverse times’ have been our catch phrases now for past many centuries. And even when our adversaries wrote our dooms-day, like mythical Greek bird Phoenix we always rose from ashes- more resolved and more determined. Historically, floods and Kashmir have been made for each other. Chronicles and folklore of Kashmir is full of stories about ravages … 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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The Politics of Boycotts in J&K
Z.G. MUHAMMAD Everyone has right to his dreams- even pipe dreams. Jamal – the great hashish smoker in our locality too had his dreams. Many times, sitting on shop fronts, he soliloquized and made his dream of becoming the chief executive of the state and replacing the “tailor’s son”, known to passersby and dizzy friends sharing his pipe. Jamal committed no sin, anyone can dream of becoming the chief executive- And for wishing to be the chief executive or getting a berth in temple of “democracy” there is no need for stoking a debate or conjuring discourses that are not holistically in conformity with the with historical realities and run contrary to the established ‘Kashmir narrative.’ ‘Is boycotting the elections right politics or participation in 2014 Assembly election is the correct option.’ … Read entire article »
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Sovergenity Of Kashmir Assembly….
Z. G. Muhammad Hypothetically let me believe, there is no Kashmir dispute. There are no United Nations Resolutions guaranteeing right to self-determination to entire state of Jammu and Kashmir as it existed on August 14, 1947. India and Pakistan are not signatory to the international agreement for holding of plebiscite in the state under the aegis of the United Nations. Indian parliament has not resonated with pledges and promises of living by international commitments and agreements … Read entire article »
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