Mehtab Karan Singh The Imran Khan led Government of Pakistan is exhibiting great determination towards integrating Gilgit-Baltistan as the fifth province of the nation and, in this evil design, it has the complete support of the pliant Judiciary. It may be recalled that PML (N) Government led by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had promulgated the Gilgit-Baltistan Reforms … [Read more...] about Colonisation of Gilgit-Baltistan: Imran Khan has taken off from where Nawaz Sharif left
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A justifiable, righteous and honourable approach to the Kashmir issue
Jasmine Brar Satinder K Lambah, a career diplomat, has been Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan. Since his superannuation, he has been actively involved as Indian interlocutor for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since 2005, he has been special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from the office of the Prime Minister of India. On May, 13, 2014, just a few days prior to the counting … [Read more...] about A justifiable, righteous and honourable approach to the Kashmir issue
The devious Pakistan-China nexus to marginalise India
Mehtab Karan Singh China is poised to build a $ 18 billion economic corridor linking Gawadar Port in Balochistan, Pakistan with Kashghar in Xinjiang, North-West China. The project will involve a railway line, fibre optic link and a petroleum pipeline across the Karakoram. Several industrial projects are proposed along the corridor. It is also proposed to upgrade the Karakoram … [Read more...] about The devious Pakistan-China nexus to marginalise India
Hurriyat visit to Pakistan: a treatise of its insignificance
Simrit Kahlon The much touted visit of a delegation of the Hurriyat conference to Pakistan has turned out to be quite a damp squib. Even before the visit commenced there were many voices against the same. The list of contrarians was led by the octogenarian hard line leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who has been disenchanted ever since he was marginalised from the Pakistani … [Read more...] about Hurriyat visit to Pakistan: a treatise of its insignificance
Hurriyat leadership has no business to visit Pakistan
Jaibans Singh There is a lot of excitement in the Hurriyat camp these days; its leaders are getting ready for their periodic sojourn to Pakistan which, after due deliberation with the Pakistani diplomatic set up in India, has been slated for December, 15, onwards. The agenda would include a visit to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) to confer with the political leadership of the … [Read more...] about Hurriyat leadership has no business to visit Pakistan
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
Illegal rehabilitation will have frightening security implications
Simrit Kahlon The place of our birth, the place where we have spent our formative years leaves a deep and abiding imprint on our psyches. Such a place is associated with those years of our life when everything seems possible to achieve and everything is either black or white. Such a place also bears witness to our earliest dreams and ambitions, our first associations as well … [Read more...] about Illegal rehabilitation will have frightening security implications
Surrender policy: Act in haste repent at leisure
Jaibans Singh Human beings have an abiding proclivity to forget adversity the moment the situation takes a turn for the better while overlooking lessons from the difficult times gone by. Something like this seems to be happening in the trouble torn state of Jammu and Kashmir. For many decades, living in the shadow of the gun and being face to face with death and destruction … [Read more...] about Surrender policy: Act in haste repent at leisure
British back benchers please voters at the cost of Kashmir
Brigadier (Retired) Manjit Singh The United Kingdom is at its imperial best once again, the mere whiff of brownie points that some of its Members of Parliament (MP’s) can earn from the Pakistanis in their constituency has propelled the entire British Parliament into a debate on alleged Human Rights violation in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir. The motion was moved by a … [Read more...] about British back benchers please voters at the cost of Kashmir
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir dreads a revisit of the 1990 era
Jaibans Singh India’s sustained assertion that Pakistan has not relented from its diabolical pursuit of exporting terror into India through the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir has found further corroboration from an unexpected source. The residents of the scenic Neelum Valley in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) have, since the last few weeks, been registering a strong … [Read more...] about Pakistan Occupied Kashmir dreads a revisit of the 1990 era