Non-territorial Settlement: Towards a Second Partition

Non-territorial Settlement: Towards a Second Partition
Mohan Krishen Teng
Engagement with Pakistan, which the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has commended to the Indian People as “a way forward” to establish a relationship of peace, is in real terms a prescription for the second Partition of India. The composite dialogue between the two countries and the [...]

The Kashmir -History

The Kashmir -History
Kashmiri Pandits who have left the Saffron Valley, feel the pain and agony of migration.
Myth and reality move together in the Saffron Valley of mystic splendor. The reclamation of land from Satisar created certain complications. The Saraswati River that flowed into the eastern Punjab, Rajasthan, Sind and other parts of Indian subcontinent suddenly [...]

Plight of the people of Gilgit Baltistan

Plight of the people of Gilgit Baltistan
 Constitutional, political and socio-economic deprivation, miseries and plight of the people of Gilgit Baltistan Northern part of Kashmir’ Speech delivered by Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri on April, 2008 in European- Parliament Respected Baroness Emma Nicholson, Member European Parliament, Vice Chair Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice Chair sub- committee on [...]

We will one day regain homeland: Kashmiri Pandits

We will one day regain homeland: Kashmiri Pandits
Jammu, April 12
The Kashmiri Pandit (KP) community in exile for the past 19 years today adopted a declaration seeking dignified return and “Union territory of Panun Kashmir” within the Kashmir division at the 3rd World Kashmiri Pandit conference, which came to a close at Jammu University today.
“Today, [...]

Don’t be apologetic about Kashmir

Don’t be apologetic about Kashmir
February 12th, 2009 By Nitish Sengupta
 It is strange that a section of the Indian public, small though it is, has nowadays become apologetic about India’s role in Jammu and Kashmir. True, there have been cases of human rights violations in recent years on the part of the security forces, but that [...]

Kashmir and Tibet

Kashmir and Tibet
A PRAGMATIC, PEOPLE ORIENTED, SOLUTION
A strategy paper proposing autonomy to Kashmir and Tibet,
under the joint suzerainty of neighbouring nations
 

The problems in South Asia started with the rejection of Gandhi. Gandhi was totally opposed to partition on the ground that the Hindu and Muslim communities are deeply interwoven in the social fabric of [...]

Kashmir dispute’s a fact

Kashmir dispute’s a fact

Aditya Sinha
David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, is absolutely correct.
“Although I understand the current difficulties, resolution of the dispute over Kashmir would help deny extremists in the [...]

Problem having its Roots in Religious Fanaticism

Problem having its Roots in Religious Fanaticism
By Narender Sehgal

 
The basis of Kashmir problem is neither economic backwardness nor political suffocation. Its roots are in the froth of religious fanaticism which are being nourished both by India and Pakistan.
 

As a result of our aimless and weak policies, Kashmiri youths have, with open support from Pakistan, taken [...]

truth about POK &Kashmir

Background
All five regions — the Kashmir Valley, Jammu, Ladakh, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit and Baltistan are perceived to be disputed and part of the Jammu and Kashmir state, as they were at the time of partition after the Indo-pak war 1947,  Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto promulgated the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Act of 1974 to virtually [...]

brief history of kashmir

Kashmir, if literally translated, means land desiccated from water: “ka” (the water) and shimeera (to desiccate). Tradition says that Kashmir was originally a lake that was drained by the great saint of ancient India Kashyap. It was included in the empire of Ashoka Maurya who is credited with the foundation of the city of Srinagar [...]