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It was evident at some of the various Track 2 dialogues a few years ago, where water from Kashmir was the issue that Pakistani delegates wanted to discuss saying that this could become the new flashpoint. Actually, water from rivers that flow through Kashmir has always been the real issue for Pakistan and not Kashmiris or their religion.
The troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir is governed by two controversial laws – the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act (AFSPA) of 1990 and its predecessor, the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978. In the past few years, state security forces have been enforcing these two laws against suspected militants and insurgents with increasing severity. This paper argues that the combined enforcement of these two laws has s
The Centre must proceed with caution as ill–timed and hasty measures can damage the efforts of integration.
With arms and terror infiltration becoming difficult, Pakistan has now resorted to drug trafficking to destroy Kashmir's youth
Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf has seemingly upset the Indians by insisting on a specific time frame within which a solution to the Kashmir issue acceptable to India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris is worked out within the framework of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan.
Mainstream parties have in unison come in defence of the article and treated it as an existential matter. Having supported the accession of the State
The Kashmiri insurgency is now nearly three decades old, having taken the lives of some 45,000 people, roughly half of them militants, 14,000 civilians and some 6,000 security personnel.
The conflict in Kashmir has undergone several changes and has kept itself relevant by drawing upon ideas and tactics from elsewhere.
The two House Resolutions on Kashmir reflect moderate to extreme conceptions on the role of values in US foreign policy, but both emphasise the centra
As bipartisanship on US foreign policy fractures, New Delhi risks becoming a partisan sticking point.
Among the indicators of the success of Vajpayee’s Kashmir policy is that even two decades later, the politicians, the civil society, the intelligent
While the controversy risked being added to the list of issues both sides are having, thus far the fallout has been managed relatively well.
Getting Pakistan to end the Kashmir conflict has been a difficult task, because Kashmir means many things to them. At one level, it is a cause that unites everyone in that country - the jihadis, the army and the civilian elite. At another, it provides it a means to maintain a hostile posture towards India, something necessary for its current sense of national identity.
The Kashmir issue has two facets — domestic, and Pakistan's role.
Past discussions surrounding Jammu and Kashmir’s possible Balkanisation almost always envisioned Jammu being severed from Kashmir.
The Indian state must use the opportunity that the political crisis has offered to fix the many things that are broken.
It is ironical that despite being an outsider the governor manages to strike a chord with the locals. What is it that the governor does right which ev
India's objections to Pakistan's plan of holding an election in Gilgit-Baltistan region and New Delhi's protests to Chinese activity there need to seen in the wider context of Sino-Pak nexus.
Last week's massive combing operation is a clear indication that things are regressing on the ground in J&K.
Every successful encounter is causing more recruitments — the security establishment is caught between the conundrum: to kill the militants or not.
The government must contemplate taking a few steps to ensure that militants who surrender is not coerced into returning.
There is a growing sense in the police bureaucracy that all decisions big or small will be taken from New Delhi or in concurrence with the wishes of p
Calling for a pause only shows the political duplicity that fuels J&K's militancy fire.
In an announcement that caught the nation by surprise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes of the Indian currency in November to arrest ‘black money’, end corruption, and choke terrorist finances. This move represents a policy departure and it has far-reaching implications. As national debate has been hijacked by the possible fallouts of demonetisation, other critical issues have been pushed to
Are new terms such as “Hybrid” and “OGWs” just another tool to antagonise the civilians or do they reflect the changing dynamics of militancy
कश्मीर को आतंकवाद और हिंसा से पूरी तरह से मुक्त कराने का ल
This paper outlines the responses of the US Congress and European Union (EU) parliament to the Indian government’s abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the surrounding events, including the communications lockdown in Kashmir. It notes contrasting responses: the US Congress showed a binary reaction of moderate and extreme calls to action, and the EU parliament honed a more expansive approach to address India’s apparent “democrat
If Kashmiri parties boycott polls, they’ll be marginalised; if they participate, it will mean accepting new realities
The political-intellectual discourse of the region had over the years evolved a historical disconnect with Kashmir — somewhat inherent, some enginee
The operational success of the security forces is commendable, but their real test would be against the hard-core and well-trained JeM and LeT terrori
Kashmir urgently needs political manoeuvring to start a new political process for democracy, through the will of the people, to triumph.
The Poonch incident two weeks ago and in Uri indicate there is no fight left in the militants in the Valley.
Retaliation, as in a neutralisation of the specific groups and masterminds behind the Uri attack, may not be logistically feasible.
It’s not even about aazadi now, the fight is for Allah and the faith.
For the first time in last four years, the Modi government has expressed a willingness to hold talks with the Hurriyat. The acknowledgment of separati
The intention behind removing Article 370 has been to encourage further investment and improve the security in Kashmir.
