Jaibans Singh “Thank you for being so kind to me, I had expected much worse”, said Dileep Padgaonkar in response to a particularly belligerent question answer session on culmination of a discussion on the interlocutor’s report on Jammu and Kashmir. The comment was made at an event organised on 21 July, at New Delhi by a think tank “India Foundation,” to discuss the report. … [Read more...] about Interlocutors report denounced as misconceived and divorced from reality
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Kashmir: perpetrators of disruption are still at large
Jaibans Singh July, 03, 2012, the newly appointed foreign secretary of Pakistan, Jalil Abbas Jilani, arrived in India to hold a meeting with his Indian counterpart, Ranjan Mathai. A fact deliberately and tacitly downplayed was that this very person, in February 2003, when he was Chargé d'Affaires at the Pakistan High Commission in India was told to pack his bags and leave the … [Read more...] about Kashmir: perpetrators of disruption are still at large
Weaknesses in the rehabilitation process are being exploited
Jaibans Singh Salamudin Khatana, Muhammad Haneef and Shakeel Ahmad Tass are three Kashmiris who answered the call for Jihad and crossed over to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) during the times of peak insurgency and terrorism. It is possible that, after training, they were re-inducted for spreading terror in Jammu and Kashmir; they may have come to Kashmir a few times and … [Read more...] about Weaknesses in the rehabilitation process are being exploited
Kashmiris need to shun forces of violence
Colonel Baldev Singh If we see the history of last three decades, we find that insurgencies have died down as quickly as they erupted, leaving large scale destruction of human and economic sources, pushing the states back for many years in their journey towards development and better living conditions for their people. What happened to Punjab in eighties and early nineties? … [Read more...] about Kashmiris need to shun forces of violence
A journey to the beautiful valley of Kashmir
S Ranjan It was with a lot of apprehension that I embarked, this year, on a much longed for visit to the valley of Kashmir, for the first time in my life. All earlier plans were put down by my family with a terse diktat, “no, it is too dangerous to go there”. In my maiden journey across Kashmir as a tourist, my understanding about the beautiful valley underwent a complete … [Read more...] about A journey to the beautiful valley of Kashmir