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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 … Continue reading

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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’. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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