“When curfew is lifted there will be a blood bath,” said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, in the course of his address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2019. He was predicting mass violence by the people of Kashmir as a protest against the decision to bifurcate the state into two Union […]
Kashmir: A timely lid has been put upon the fallacy of ‘Azaadi’
As the situation turns for the better in Jammu and Kashmir with reorganization of the state into two Union Territories and abrogation of Article 370, there arises a need to look at the, by now, failed concept of “Azaadi” (Freedom) that had been propounded over decades by some self appointed leaders of the Kashmiri people. […]
Imran Khan: The latest poster boy of irrelevant Hurriyat Conference
In the wake of the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories and abrogation of Article 370, the political structures in Kashmir that were aligned with separatism and soft separatism have been left without viable agendas. Syed Ali Geelani, one among the tallest leaders of the Hurriyat Conference, chose to resign from all […]
Read the lips of Army Commander, Northern Command
On the eve of Kargil Vijay Divas, Lt. Gen. Y.K. Joshi, Army Commander, Northern Command, being one among the heroic commanding officers who led their units in the Kargil War in 1999, gave an interview to a television news channel, CNN News 18. It is notable here that 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, that Lt. […]
Kargil War: Pakistan’s duplicity should neither be forgotten nor forgiven
The ongoing week marks the 21st Anniversary of India’s victory against Pakistan in the Kargil War, also called Operation Vijay. In 26, July, 1999, Pakistan announced complete withdrawal of its troops from the Kargil heights when nothing was left over there to withdraw with its beleaguered troops having been battered by the Indian Army. Every […]