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It is a misnomer to call Pakistan’s naked aggression on Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 as ‘tribal raid.’ Pakistan organised the invasion and directly supervised operations. ‘Operation Gulmarg’ There is some evidence that even by last week of May 1947 Pakistan gave shape to plans to forcibly annex Jammu and Kashmir. […]
With Qayyum Khan, the chief minister of NWFP in the loop, Pak Army planners sand- mapped annexation of the geographically large and strategically crucial State of Jammu and Kashmir. In liaison with the British residual counterpart, they converged on forestalling India’s attempt of retrieving Gilgit-Baltistan whose borders touched on Soviet […]
Anantnag, April 9, : The killing of a local soldier in Southern district of Anantnag is not the solitary incident in Kashmir Valley. Scores of incidents have been reported so for where the victims and assailants were local Kashmiris. Pertinently, a Territorial Army man, who was on leave was shot […]
As a Kashmiri Pandit, facing an exodus and surviving it, is not new for all of us. The exodus of 1990 is the seventh exodus faced by the community so far. We are resilient and we thrive, and come back. We might head to different parts of the world to […]
During Chiefministership of GM Sadiq school textbooks in J&K carried a chapter on Maqbool Sherwani of Baramulla,Master Abdul Aziz of Muzaffarabad and Pushkar Nath Zadu of Srinagar. It extolled contribution of three heroes during 1947 Pakistani invasion. Sherwani-The Communist view Who was this Sherwani and what made him a national […]
Being a student of good governance, we need to have an analytic look on Back to village programme initiated by the Jammu and Kashmir Government. From governance point of view, if the programme is for good governance, it has to pass by certain parameters namely transparency, accountability, fairness and timeliness. […]
The mindset of the Bureaucracy at the highest level in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of neutering of Article 370 and its reorganization into two Union Territories has had a crucial bearing on the administrative processes that followed after the revolutionary changes in the state. […]
FARM BILLS The the two Bills on Farm Reforms and the one on the amendment to the Essential Commodities Act that were passed in the Lok Sabha on 16 September are being used as political tools by the opposition. And, even Akali Dal, a partner in the NDA, has taken […]
September 17, 2020 CANNABIS The opinion in the country seems to be divided over whether it is important to continue with the hyped ongoing public discourse on the clean-up operation of Bollywood from its alleged drug and underworld nexus or should we let that be carried out as per the […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has played havoc with life in India. As it is, the economic performance in the pre-Covid-19 period was far from what it should have been in the BJP government’s pursuit of becoming a 5 trillion dollar economy. The GDP growth steadily declined from 8.3 per cent in […]
