"Can you wish away the problems with India? Can you wish away the problem of Kashmir?"
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's all-powerful military overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago and hustled him off into exile in handcuffs. Now he's back as prime minister-elect, with the army watching his every move, especially steps planned to ease tension with arch-rival...
Posted 1 day ago
Haseeb A. Drabu
NEW DELHI: For the second time in as many years, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken financial sector initiatives vis-a-vis Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) that have serious implications for that state.
First, of course, was RBI's replacement of the J&K Bank as the lender of last resort for the state government. This eroded the financial underpinning of the unique position of political autonomy that the state...
Posted 8 days ago.
An in-depth study of the real Kashmir problem, with the focus on “Azad Kashmir”, backed by facts and figures. By Shujaat Bukhari
THE Australian politico-strategic analyst, author and academician Christopher Snedden’s latest book Kashmir: The Unwritten History is not an ordinary addition to a long list of books on the protracted conflict in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The book is by...
Posted 13 days ago.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury
It's more than 5,000 metres above sea level, cold, inhospitable, uninhabited, with hardly any vegetation or wildlife in sight. Welcome to the icy desert wastelands of Daulat Beg Oldi, a forgotten pit stop on the Silk Road catapulted to overnight geopolitical fame as two nuclear neighbours vie for its possession in a dangerous game of tactical brinkmanship.
For two weeks now, Chinese...
Posted 21 days ago.
"...in August 2008, Vohra led the administration to quell the anti-India uprising..."
Khursheed Wani
SRINAGAR: Ahead of Assembly polls in embattled Jammu & Kashmir, the Centre’s decision not to disturb the Raj Bhawan by offering second term to Governor NN Vohra has significant political implications, observers say.
The Governor’s advice and interventions would be...
Posted 22 days ago.
Khursheed Wani
SRINAGAR: The coalition partners in Jammu & Kashmir — the National Conference and the Congress — are at loggerheads in mountainous Ladakh region where political dynamics are dissimilar to those in the plains of Kashmir Valley and Jammu. Besides non-existent coalition and competitive politics of the coalition partners, the other significant political forces in the State like the People’s Democratic Party...
Posted 27 days ago.
Regulation of fees in private schools in Jammu and Kashmir will be bad for quality education itself writes Adil Shah
It is a known fact that the education scenario in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has improved by leaps and bounds. As per figures from the latest census, literacy rate has increased by 13 % in the past decade.
The government would be fishing for a pat on the back with these...
Posted 27 days ago.
Naseer A Ganai
Along with a fellow journalist, I went to interview some families, who had returned from Azad Kashmir. Image of Azad Kashmir here is that it is a backward place, where people live in dark ages, electricity has not touched it and they don't have any culture and history.
We Kashmiris think that people, who don't live in Valley, have no culture. We have an opinion about people of Doda, Rajouri...
Posted 35 days ago.
Naseer A Ganai
What else can the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah do except crying and, in between taking long pauses, start crying again. It is an art and he is trying to perfect it.
But he is not the only one, who has cried in the Assembly. He has got a good crying company.
Recent history of J&K...
Posted 40 days ago.
Naseer A Ganai
Recent announcements by two top officials of Srinagar district has set nearly one lakh city dogs in tizzy. The Commissioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), Dr. G.N Qasba, made an announcement saying he has succeeded in bringing down dog population by 42,051, a significant decrease from 91,000 to 48,949 dogs, in just around one year.
"The good news is that dog population has come down significantly following a number of measures, which...
Posted 45 days ago.
