The Second Hearing
The US Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) hearing on Kashmir - Jammu and Kashmir in Context, was literally dominated by five women,...
Daring Diplomacy?
Two non-descript NGOs run by shady managers flew 27 far-right European MPs to Delhi for what experts say, “controlling to conversation”. After meeting the...
A Red Hearing?
There were some highly uncomfortable questions that American Congressmen asked its own officials on Kashmir. The hearing by a Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs,...
Caught In Between?
Coinciding with the 50 days of lockdown, the Kashmir story migrated to America along with the Prime Ministers’ of India and Pakistan. Though the...
Gulmarg To Geneva
With the rival armies engaged in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation on Kashmir borders, Indian and Pakistani diplomats are busy fighting the ‘war by...
Kabul and Kashmir
Trump’s Kashmir remarks could be a typical maverick’s tactic to get Pakistan help the US in extracting itself from the festering Afghan mess, writes Iftikhar...
Between Trump And Malik
Everybody who is anybody in Jammu and Kashmir has been talking about the twin axis of the Kashmir – the internal, involving the issues...
Bartered Symbolism
Ten years and a few thousand crores of turnover later, Home Ministry found enough of loopholes to suspend the barter trade at the Line...
Uncomfortable Questions?
While people were seeking answers in the wake of the horrific Lethpora attack, the subsequent situation threw up more questions for Delhi and Srinagar,...
The Cricketer and Kashmir
Cricketer Imran Khan is scheduled to takeover as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 11. He is the first Pakistani politician who is...
Spy Statements
A journalist had a series of joint interviews with A S Dulat, former RAW chief and Assad Durrani, who headed ISI in 1990, and...
‘One of the big failures of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy has been its pure focus...
Ahsan Butt is Washington based Pakistani political scientist who teaches at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His first...
Kashmir’s UN Crisis
In autumn when the diplomats and top politicians from India and Pakistan go to the United Nations for long speeches blaming each other for...
Equating the Wretched
By Shams Irfan
As Kashmiris watched in horror images of Rohingya Muslims being prosecuted and massacred by government forces, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew to...
Barter Bottlenecks
Amid reports that NIA wants barter trade at the LoC to close down, a huge cache of contraband was recovered from a PaK truck...