KASHMIR and IDPs

Daily Excelsior

Sir,

CM’s appeal for resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue (DE Jan 8) is aptly timed but inaptly approached. She repetitively urges India to talk to Pakistan. Chief Ministers preceding her, too, tried these antics. With pro-Pak orientation, such antics carry strong element of political endearment. Kashmiris themselves bade good bye to peace in 1990. Regretfully they hailed ushering in of an epoch of violence and bloodsheds with covert and overt consensus of civil society. Continue Reading…

By K.N. Pandita

We shall be entering twenty-eighth year of sponsored Kashmir insurgency. The bloodshed on either side has neither thrown out India nor brought in Pakistan.
The position of Kashmir uprising is far weaker today than what it was in 1990s or early 20s. The world community is convinced that Kashmir is part of Islamic Theo-fascism. Continue Reading…

K.N. Pandita

Obduracy and inflexibility are not the tools to play politics with. The Hurriyat leaders believe their success lies in being obdurate to the hilt. Who forces them to walk the talk? Continue Reading…

By K.N. Pandita

Sceptics ask how the fate of fresh initiative for dialogue with stakeholders in Kashmir can yield any positive result when similar attempts in the past were a flop. Continue Reading…

By K.N Pandita

Home Minister Rajnath Singh has just concluded his 4-day visit to J&K. He spent maximum of his time in Srinagar, and the customary eye wash of visit to Jammu by way of a balancing act.

I looked up in dictionary to find out if HM’s 5-Cs carries some deeper or mysterious meaning. I found none. What does he want to convey and to whom, is my question. Continue Reading…

By K.N. Pandita

Like all regressive activities, militancy, too, has to come to its logical conclusion which is its total effacement. This thinking developed soon among Kashmirian civil society after the separatists refused to interact with the All Party Parliamentary delegation that visited the valley last August. Continue Reading…

By K.N. Pandita

J&K Chief Minister repeats the tantrum of dialogue with Pakistan knowing well there are no takers in India and much less in Pakistan. Not only her late father but even father-son NC chief minister-duo before him had also harped on the same tune. They don’t do it out of gaffe. Continue Reading…

published on European Foundation for South-Asian Studies EFSAS, July 2017:

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By K.N. Pandita

Thousands of Kashmiri youth in various parts of the valley recently mourned the killing of two A++ grade terrorists, one of them a Pakistani national and the other his local accomplice. Continue Reading…

Daily Excelsior, August 2, 2017 – Nawaz Sharief’s ouster

Sir,

This has reference to the piece titled Coup Instigator by Shri B.L. Saraf (DE 2 Aug). The writer, himself a legal luminary, has rightly touched on the subject of the credibility of Pakistan judiciary particularly the Supreme Court. History of Pakistani judiciary shows us that at many times judges of the Supreme Court have behaved in a partisan manner. Continue Reading…