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Mohammad Din Fauq Chair And Kashmir University
PUNCHLINE ‘Fauq Chair’ For History By Z. G. Muhammad A group of our scholars, writers and historians expressed their deep concern about the academic inertia that has beset most of the universities. For having authored many books on history, literature and contemporary politics some of them are recognized as credible voices of the state. The concern was expressed more than a decade back at a seminar organised in connection with the importance of 13 July 1931 in the … Read entire article »
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Third Party Mediation and Kashmir
Z.G. MUHAMMAD It is not a beaten path. That columnists and commentators in the subcontinent in general and Jammu and Kashmir in particular- on both the sides of the dividing line love to tread on October 27 every year for heck of it. Today also, the date runs through Kashmir narrative. On this day in 1947, men in olive green from New Delhi landed at 9.00 A.M at Srinagar aerodrome. Sorties after sorties of planeloads of soldiers raising clouds of dust landed until the sunset. Ever since, with some historians holding view Kashmir dispute was born on this day it has been a matter of debate and discussion with scholars, researchers and commentators. Sixty five years after, the date continues to be central to the Kashmir narrative. The Kashmir dispute not only continues … Read entire article »
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