17-year-old flogged Swat girl is not Taliban’s only victim in recent past

17-year-old flogged Swat girl is not Taliban’s only victim in recent past–>

Sat, Apr 4 03:05 PM
Peshawar, Apr. 4 (ANI): The videotaped footage showing a teenaged girl being whipped by the Taliban wasn’t the only barbaric instance of this sort by the radicals in the recent past.
Last year, the Swat Taliban awarded punishment of public flogging [...]

Living Under the Shadow of Article 370

Living under the shadow of Article 370
Sunil Fotedar, Subodh Atal and Lalit Koul
There have been numerous suggestions that the Indian government needs to grant ’special powers’ to the state of Jammu and Kashmir to defuse the ‘nuclear flashpoint’. What ’special powers’ are left to be doled out to the state government? It already has sufficient [...]

Islamic Terrorism and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits

Genocide in Kashmir

400,000 Kashmiri Pandits, constituting 99% of the total population of Hindus living in Muslim majority area of the Kashmir Valley, were forcibly pushed out of the Valley by Muslim terrorists, trained in Pakistan, since the end of 1989. They have been forced to live the life of exiles in their own country, outside [...]

Islamist Movements and a Political Challenge: An Alternative Perspective

Islamist Movements and a Political Challenge: An Alternative Perspective
While on a recent visit to Delhi, I chanced upon an Urdu book whose title, Tehrik-i-Islami Ko Darpesh Siyasi Challenge (‘The Political Challenges Before the Islamic Movement’), immediately attracted my attention. Yogi Sikand presents a summary of this book.
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Balawaristan: BNF Chief Abdul Hamid Speech to a Historic Gathering

English translation of Chairman Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan’s telephonic address to a public gathering at Gahkuch dated June 8, 2008
Balawaristan: BNF Chief Abdul Hamid Speech to a Historic Gathering
My dear brothers, sisters of Gilgit-Baltistan, Ladakh, Chitral and Kohistan; youth of BNSO, GBDA Leaders and distinguished guests,
I am proud of the fact that [...]

Report on Pandit killings rekindles communal fissures in Valley

Report on Pandit killings rekindles communal fissures in Valley
Kashmiri Pandit groups have reacted sharply to media reports that the Jammu and Kashmiri Police has prepared a report saying that ‘only’ 209 Kashmiri Pandits have been killed in the Valley since 1989. The police, however, deny having prepared or published any such report.
Some recent media reports had [...]