A case for Quadrification of Jammu and Kashmir- Only Way forward
LALIT KOUL
Last few weeks, we have witnessed the gory exposure of bigotry practiced by Mufti Sayeed led government, National Conference, Congress, terrorists, anti-national secessionists and their local supporters in the Kashmir valley. It all started with the brouh......more...
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Demystifying Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits
VARAD VARENYA
Kashmiri Pandits have been denied justice from past 21 years. The human rights violation of Kashmiri Pandits ought to be addressed now. Kashmiri Pandits haven’t suffered physically only but culturally and psychologically also. Kashmiri Pandits have been s......more...
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Thread of My Dreams
TAMANNA KUKRETI
Don’t let the Kashmiri Pandits be a Refugee in his own country. The threads of the life and dreams of Kashmiri Pandit for his homeland has been turned into a intrigued web, this web needs to be sorted out at the earliest so that each thread can go in its ......more...
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Hurriyat stumbles on fourth stakeholder
K. N. PANDITA
During six-plus decades of Kashmir issue, China generally maintained silence and let stakeholders guess what her line of thinking about this festering South Asian sore would be. Despite her close and rather clandestine relationship with Pakistan, China di......more...
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Balochistan: Unrelenting Insurgency
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The strategic and resource-rich Balochistan province continues to remain on the periphery of Pakistan's projects and perceptions. With both the "dialogue with those who are up in the mountains" and the counter-insurgency (CI) operations failing, the Baloc......more...
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South Waziristan: Blind Fury
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The Pakistan Army is reported to have wound up the first phase of Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) this past weekend, having captured all major towns and villages in the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) stronghold of South Waziristan...........more...
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Speeding into the Void
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
After much vacillation and hype, and stung by targeted attacks at its very core, the military launched its long-awaited Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path of Salvation) late on October 16, 2009, against the Hakeemullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ......more...
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Assassins from the Epicentre
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The dangers of anarchy within Afghanistan and across areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are predominantly sourced in Pakistan, to a far greater extent than in war-ravaged Afghanistan. The Taliban–al Qaeda combine and transnational jihadi groups b......more...
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Waziristan: A Stygian Dark
AJAI SAHNI
After months of ‘preparation’ – massive and often indiscriminate bombings in the region, as well as the massing of Forces, blockades and endless curfews – there are now credible reports that the Pakistan Army is poised to ‘storm’ the principal strongholds......more...
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Krishna-Qureshi Meeting
SARLA HANDOO
Their body language was quite reassuring. They smiled and shook hands. In fact while shaking S.M.Krishna’s hand Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the media “I am shaking the hand and I am shaking it very firmly.” Equally optimistic were ......more...
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Dialog of the Unwilling
ALLABAKSH
It is a relief that after their 100-minute ‘dialogue’ on the sidelines of the UN general assembly meeting in New York, the Indian external affairs minister and his Pakistani counterpart adjourned without committing a date for their next meeting...........more...
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Manmohan Singh's Faulty Pakistan Policy
J. N. RAINA
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while delivering the panic button, stunned the nation recently that based on certain intelligence inputs from across the border, ‘terrorist groups’ –Pakistan calls them non-state actors—were planning fresh attacks in India........more...
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The Soft State Syndrome
ATUL COWSHISH
Do Indian policy makers think that any hint of ‘aggression’ will compromise on the pursuit of dated ‘idealistic’ policies? Why does India fail to tell the world that any dialogue with a nation that adopts terrorism as its state policy will serve no purpos......more...
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Obama's New Nightmare - Contradictions in AfPak Policy
M. RAMA RAO
Unless the inherent contradiction is corrected, the one-eyed Afghan Lord of Terrorism, Mullah Omar, has every reason to celebrate smug with the thought that the ‘colonial troops’ are once again heading for ‘unequivocal defeat’ in Afghanistan..........more...
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Gilgit-Baltistan rightly belongs to India
J. N. RAINA
Pakistan has played another fraud and hoodwinked the people of Kashmir, by granting ‘political autonomy’ to Northern Areas, the erstwhile Gilgit Agency that formed an integral part of the undivided princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which in too belongs......more...
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Package for a Price - Time for Action
SUSHIL VAKIL
This is the right time for all Kashmiri Pandit organizations to work in unison and coerce upon the centre and state government that the economic package be given to the displaced Pandits at present place and treat the return as a separate issue...........more...
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An Education in Failure
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Seven years after its inception, the Madrassa Reform Project has been an unambiguous failure. While there is certainly resistance and even confrontation at the ground level, ambivalence and a reluctance to implement the reforms dominate the state’s agenci......more...
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Pakistan Can't Dictate Terms
ALLABAKSH
The Pakistanis will only get ‘bolder’ as they find that their roguish behaviour, be it in regard to nuclear proliferation or terror, goes unpunished or un-reprimanded...........more...
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Omar Faces PDP Bouncers
J. N. RAINA
It was bedlam after bedlam, in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. Ostensibly, it was a well-orchestrated ‘jihad’, imbued with political motives, to destabilize the National Conference-Congress government, led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah...........more...
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Not Audible Enough
ALLABAKSH
The new rulers in America have said repeatedly that relations with China are going to be of utmost concern to them and that certainly makes it clear that for Washington relations with India are of secondary importance.............more...
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TTP: Momentary Decapitation
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Quoting intelligence reports on August 7, 2009, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi confirmed that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack which targeted his father-in-law Maulana Ikramuddin’s house in ......more...
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Politics Plunging into the Abyss
ALLABAKSH
Democracy in India is being reduced to enacting cheap thrills. The concept of debate and discussion being the core of democracy is in danger of being thrown out of the window by the very people who swear by democracy..........more...
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Afflicted Power
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The battle between the Security Forces (SFs) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has intensified and is clearly widening across Pakistan. According to official data, 1,400 ‘militants’ have been killed so far in a military offensive.............more...
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Hallucinations of a Different Kind
ALLABAKSH
In its insatiable and eternal quest to harm India in every possible manner, Pakistani relies on two quirky tools heavily: presenting absurd concoctions about India’s villainy, repeating them to make them look like the truth, and endless denials about Paki......more...
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Despite Zardari’s mea culpa, ‘Jihad’ continues unabated
J. N. RAINA
Once again, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has resorted to self-flogging, hurling another bombshell; this time making a more candid confession that militants were “wilfully created” by the past governments in Islamabad, to achieve “tactical objective......more...
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Obama should know Kashmir’s accession is irrevocable
J. N. RAINA
A lot of fuss has been created about Kashmir. It is a deliberate attempt to confuse the international opinion about the ‘ownership’ of Kashmir.............more...
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The Upshot of Hillary's Visit
SARLA HANDOO
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to India has been meaningful in many ways but it has left behind a trail of some debates as well. From day one Hillary Clinton consistently spoke about “broadening and deepening” of good relationsh......more...
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Hillary Clinton Leaves Questions Unanswered
ATUL COWSHISH
There were probably divergent expectations in India and the US when the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, paid her first official visit to India. The Americans wanted India to agree on their formulation on capping the greenhouse gas emission............more...
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Complicity Uninterrupted
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
There is little evidence of coherent action against the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan, and state agencies remain deeply embroiled with a number of terrorist proxies................more...
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Kashmiri Saag - A Panacea to Curb Malnutrition
J. N. RAINA
A Pune-based farmer has provided an appropriate answer to India’s centuries-old malnutrition problem. I have no intention to over-egg the pudding. I am not exaggerating the truth..............more...
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Heartland Trauma
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
While the progressive collapse in NWFP and FATA is well documented, the situation in Pakistan’s heartland, Punjab, and its emergence as a jihadi hub, has largely escaped attention.............more...
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Jihad and Dialog - Can't Run Parallel
J. N. RAINA
To talk or not to talk; that is the problem, facing India. In the first instance, what led New Delhi to soften its stand and show extra anxiety to begin a dialogue with Pakistan, which is unwilling and persistently resisting the demand to destroy its terr......more...
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Chidambarma's Mission Kashmir
SARLA HANDOO
If the Home Minster P. Chidambaram’s Srinagar visit has raised hopes among the people that the State and the Central Governments would take all necessary steps to ensure that the Security Forces would be more disciplined hereafter and no Human Rights viol......more...
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Long Road to the Dialogue of the Deaf
CHANDRAHASAN A
The hype over the ‘meeting’ between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, even though in a distant Russian city, is understandable...............more...
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Will Pakistan Mend its Ways?
SARLA HANDOO
There could not have been a more blunt and straightforward way for Dr. Manmohan Singh to bring home the point to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on how serious and painful India is about the lackadaisical attitude adopted by it with regard to the terr......more...
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After Hafeez Sayeed's Release
TUSHAR CHARAN
Surely, no one, either in India, Pakistan or anywhere else in the world, would have been surprised by the release of the LeT founder, Hafeez Saeed by the Lahore High Court within six months of his detention after the Mumbai terror attacks in November last......more...
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At Sea against Terror
ASUTOSHA ACHARYA
26/11 has prompted the Union and State Governments to announce a series of policy measures intended to modernise and improve the coastal security apparatus. Most of these are still to be implemented................more...
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Taliban's Nexus with Militant Outfits in Kashmir
SARLA HANDOO
The latest report by a US Think Tank has warned Pakistan that if it fails to take action against the terrorist outfits operating from its soil in Jammu and Kashmir and rest of India, New Delhi might consider the option of propping separatist outfits in bo......more...
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Darkness Visible
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The ongoing military operations targeting the Taliban in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) have invited a predictable backlash from the militant network in Pakistan’s cities................more...
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Pak Crisis - Do's and Don'ts for India
CHANDRAMOHAN
Those who are busy asking India to do or not do certain things to ‘help’ Pakistan should really ponder if Pakistan is really in need of any ‘help’ when there are so many doubts about its intentions to eliminate the terror network on its soil................more...
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The Af-Pak Illusion
ALLABAKSH
The Americans are either optimists to unrealistic levels or believe too much in illusions. This thought has been prompted by the way the Obama administration has hawked the so-called Af-Pak policy as the panacea for the ‘migraine’ the US has been getting ......more...
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Disastrous Peace, Ruinous War
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The latest ‘peace deal’ in the NWFP will, most likely, be no more effective than previous misadventures of this kind. The ‘settlement’ with the TNSM will produce not more than a brief lull before a rising storm.........more...
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Jaziya on Pakistani Sikhs
CHANDRAHASAN A
The two-nation theory, the basis for the creation of Pakistan, was buried way back in 1971 when the majority of Muslims living in that country decided to carve out a separate nation, Bangladesh...........more...
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Taliban knocks at next door
ALLABAKSH
The danger from the Pak nukes falling into the hands of the Taliban will increase, but for India this danger has existed from the time Pakistan embarked on the nuclear path with blessings from the US and China...........more...
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Rollback time for Pak Militancy in Kashmir
J. N. RAINA
It is an opportune time for strife-torn Pakistan to roll-back its proxy war, intended to inflict a “thousand cuts” on India, and say ‘peccavi’ (we have sinned)..............more...
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The Afghan Scapegoat
CHANDRAHASAN
Twitters can be heard in the conference room of the diabolic Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate of Pakistan Army. After agonising long over the ‘Indian conspiracy’ to ‘defame’ Pakistan for its terrorist proclivities, the top dogs of the shadowy agenc......more...
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Pakistan in Sharia Quagmire
SARLA HANDOO
Within a day of the National Assembly of Pakistan passing the Nizami-Adl regulation and the president Asif Ali Zardari giving his assent to it, the worst fears have begun coming true..............more...
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Pakistan's Do or Die Battle Begins
J. N. RAINA
Equipped with the ‘tools’ of Stone Age, Taliban are inching forward and zeroing in on Islamabad ferociously. It is a hard news for the international community to assimilate. Time is not far off when their writ will run large all over Pakistan...............more...
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Uncomprehending in ‘AfPak’
VIKRAM SOOD
Of the last thirty turbulent years, Afghanistan has seen active Soviet (Russian) involvement for about ten, US for about 18 years (in two spells), India for about ten (in two spells up to 1992 and presently) and the Pakistanis for all three decades............more...
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From Blackmail to Defiance
M. RAMA RAO
Even as its ‘liberal’ society in ‘cosmopolitan’ cities gets ready to embrace Talibanisation, Pakistan has graduated from blackmailing its biggest benefactor, the United States of America, to showing ‘defiance’ towards the sole superpower.............more...
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Pakistan Continues to see a Foreign Hand behind Terror Attacks
TUSHAR CHARAN
Within a day of the attack on Lahore police academy Baitullah Mehsud, commander of the Pakistani Taleban, had claimed responsibility for the audacious act. While it was a tragic incident, it must have also caused some ‘disappointment’ to the Pakistani off......more...
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Sectarian Implosion
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The relative increase in sectarian violence within the first three months of 2009 needs to be seen in the wider context of state collapse across Pakistan, and the increase in operational spaces for sectarian and extremist groups................more...
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Living with Taliban Next Door
CHANDRAMOHAN
Most experts on Pakistan as well those who deal with India’s western neighbour have in recent days made the gloomy prediction that the Land of the Pure is now being sucked into the Taliban vortex. Ironically, it was a monster that Pakistan had happily cre......more...
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Irretrievable Failure?
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The collapse of the Pakistani state and the dangerous ramifications of a Talibanesque extremist regime in control of the nuclear button are no longer figments of an overactive imagination.................more...
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Creating New Terror
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Rewarding militancy and supping with the enemy has become an entrenched Pakistani habit. In its most recent manifestation, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Government hammered out a deal – widely described as a "surrender" by Pakistani commentators......more...
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J&K: Dying Embers of Terror
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Pakistan’s intentions, notwithstanding a change in regime and international pressure, remain unchanged as far as the Kashmir jihad is concerned. The only noticeable shift is in strategy and tactics...............more...
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Skirting Failure
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Pakistan’s descent towards state failure gathered momentum in year 2008. Conflict data and broad governance indicators, today, reflect a nation at war with itself............more...
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Escalation on the Cards
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Meeting on the sidelines of the 15th Summit of the SAARC, Dr. Manmohan Singh reportedly conveyed the country’s concerns over the increasing involvement of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in anti-India activities..............more...
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Holy Amarnath – Political Chessboard for Kashmiri Muslim Politicians
LALIT KOUL
This ugly episode in the history of Jammu & Kashmir has clearly exposed the nexus between all the terrorist outfits, separatists’ outfits and three major parties operating in the valley...........more...
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Prevent villains from turning into heroes
RAMESH MANVATI
The way some of the political parties and their MPs - supposed to be our 'law makers', behaved during the recent 'Trust Motion' and the manner in which currency notes were brandished............more...
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An Imperfect Storm: The Summer 2008 Uprising in Kashmir
VIJAY SAZAWAL
Unlike the sustained uprising in Kashmir in 1990 which was mostly orchestrated by Pakistani trained operatives, the uprising in the summer of 2008 was mostly indigenous, spontaneous and massive............more...
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Kashmir’s Politics of Hate
PRAVEEN SWAMI
Last month’s violence and demonstrations in J&K — a wave of Islamist-initiated protests against the grant of land to the Shrine Board to build temporary prefabricated housing and restrooms for pilgrims on the Amarnath Yatra............more...
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Fundamentalists derail pilgrims' progress in Kashmir
J. N. RAINA
The divisive politics in Jammu and Kashmir have taken a turn for the worst. The communal outrage, as never so before, is outpouring on the streets in the Kashmir valley, on a mere pretext of the diversion of.................more...
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Inescapable Entanglements
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
There are clear signs that the celebratory period of the coalition Government in Pakistan is over and the regime under Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani is facing immense pressure from multiple sources....................more...
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J&K: Financing the Terror
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN & AJAAT JAMWAL
With the financial system for sustaining militancy in Jammu and Kashmir intact, it is easy for Pakistan and the jihadi groups to maintain a threshold level of violence in the conflict wracked State or to calibrate it to transient perceptions of Pakistan’s......more...
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The Cat’s Paw Again
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
It is evident that the Taliban – al Qaeda combine and the transnational jihadi groups based within Pakistan remain the principal instrumentalities of Islamabad’s response to India’s deepening co-operation with Afghanistan.................more...
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J&K’s Party of Exiles
PRAVEEN SWAMI
Both the aggressive polemic and the hostilities along the LoC seem likely to escalate as the elections near. Whether the India-Pakistan peace process can survive the multiple strains it is now subject to remains to be seen...........more...
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The Futility of ‘Peace Deals’
G. PARTHASARATHY
Ever since the American-led ouster of the Taliban regime from Kabul in 2001, pro-Taliban tribals in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) have been stirred up to join their Pashtun brethren in Afghanistan, waging jihad against the Americans and t......more...
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Negotiating War
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
While the militants seek to reverse President Musharraf’s "reluctant rupture with his one-time jihadist allies," J&K and the Indian hinterland could witness a significant resurgence of terrorist violence in the foreseeable future.............more...
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Terrorism threat and internal dynamics of Pakistan
J. N. RAINA
While seeking economic cooperation, Pakistan shall have to give utmost priority to the banishment of terrorism. Incidents like Jaipur and violation of the ceasefire agreement cannot go on endlessly, side-by-side with the peace dialogue................more...
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The Pak Circus
M. RAMA RAO
A strange political circus is on in Pakistan. It is witnessing the equivalent of Sangh Parivar Rath Yatra spectacle in the ‘caravan’ of the ousted supreme court chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary, that is taking him to different parts...................more...
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Will Coalition Survive in Pakistan?
J. N. RAINA
Pakistan is faced with a catch-22 situation. President Pervez Musharraf is having his bad days ahead. His ‘wings’ are likely to be ‘clipped’ by the new government. Either he will be impeached and forced to step down, or he will be.............more...
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Mufti & Mufti: Secessionist-in-Disguise
LALIT KOUL
General masses need to see through Mufti duo's separatist designs that are harming the soul of the nation. It is imperative upon the voting public that they show the exit door...........more...
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Distress Deals Again
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
A 15-point Draft Agreement, to be signed between the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and the local political administration, envisages an end to militancy, exchange of prisoners, withdrawal of the military and resolution of issues............more...
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The Cat’s Paw in Nimroz
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Since 2002, the Taliban has demanded the departure of all Indian personnel working on various projects with the Afghan people and Government for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country...........more...
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Kashmir’s Waning Jihad
PRAVEEN SWAMI
The jihad in Jammu and Kashmir is clinging to the edge of the abyss by its fingernails. Whether it is any position to grab the rope Pakistan’s military establishment has thrown it ............more...
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Will Kashmiri Hindus ever return to their Homeland
J. N. RAINA
The fundamentals in the valley have no locus standi to decide about people residing in the other two regions of the Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region and the Hindu-dominated Jammu............more...
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Hail Zardari's KashmirSpeak
SARLA HANDOO
Mr. Zardari has said that the Kashmir issue should be set aside to focus on other issues for improving relations with India. It shows that there is a growing realization in Pakistan that by making Indo- Pak relations hostage to the resolution of Kashmir i......more...
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SIMI: A Bend in the Road
PRAVEEN SWAMI
"Islam is our nation," thundered Mohammad Amir Shakeel Ahmad at the Students Islamic Movement of India’s (SIMI’s) 1999 convention in Aurangabad, "not India."..........more...
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Kashmir We Do Not Know
RAMESH MANVATI
Their only fault - they were protesting peacefully against lending a platform to the perpetrator of hatred and crime at the cost of ignoring the plight of nearly half a million of minority Kashmiri Pandits, now in 19th year of their forced exile..........more...
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A Lol-Ros Nalamot - An Embrace Without Love
RASHNEEK KHER
If the separatists and the government is really serious about the return of Pandits to the valley, it is time they heed to the calls of the Pandits living in the valley..........more...
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The More Things Change...
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
While Pakistan celebrates the outcome of a surprisingly free election, the new coalition Government that will bring together two hitherto bitter rivals will have its task cut out............more...
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Call from Deoband
ALLABAKSH
Whether the censure of terrorism at the conclave should be interpreted as a fatwa or a decree is not as important as the reaction of the community and the reach of the message............more...
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Independence for Kosovo
ALLABAKSH
The people of Balochistan have been fighting for ‘independence’ from the time of creation of Pakistan in 1947. Will UK and US be as considerate towards Balochis as they are of Kosovars?.........more...
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Is Kashmir poised for a policy reversal?
SUNITA VAKIL
What remains to be seen is whether the new government is able to usher in a liberal, terror free and stable Pakistan. Since the fate of peace process as well as the future of J&K is inextricably linked............more...
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Kashmir: The Autumn of the Jihad?
PRAVEEN SWAMI
BELOW the ice carpet in the Kashmir Valley, the first stirrings of the political life that will blossom this summer have begun...................more...
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Opportunity of Heaven – Lost in Exile
KAMAL HAK
My exile has made me to lose the warmth of comforting relationship. Exile has made me serious and deprived me of enjoying life’s little eccentricities...........
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The Expanding Jihad
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The operational spaces for Islamist militancy in States outside Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) demonstrate indications of brisk expansion, even as terrorist violence declines in that State.............more...
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Respite from a Proxy War
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
In the long war against Islamist terrorism, the partial relief in J&K could well prove the calm before a rising storm.............more...
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Iconoclasm in Kashmir: Pre-Islamic Iconoclasm - References from Rajatarangani
RASHNEEK KHER
Let us now move to the third part of Our Marxist friend’s observations where he has written in detail about the kings who burnt temples, destroyed Viharas etc etc...........more...
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Iconoclasm in Kashmir: Harsha - The Iconoclast
RASHNEEK KHER
Harsha (1089-1111) ruled Kashmir and is probably one king who Kalhana has painted despicably. Why I wish to discuss this king is because he has been pulled out of the historical wilderness time and again by the Marxist historians.............more...
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Iconoclasm in Kashmir - Motives and Magnitude
RASHNEEK KHER
Iconoclasm and religious persecution of faiths alien to the king’s faith has been a norm said one of my Marxist friends. He didn’t stop there. He went on to name..............more...
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Chronic Failure
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Pakistan’s slide towards state failure accelerated dramatically in year 2007, and the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27 was a sharp reminder that the country’s progressive collapse was much more rapid.............more...
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Bilawal and Zardari
ATUL COWSHISH
It may have been a trifle disappointing for Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the slain Benazir Bhutto, to find that no one in his country or abroad had noted the ‘sacrifice’ he had made...........more...
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Yard Sleuths for Bhutto Assassination
ALLABAKSH
Just how will the association of a small team of detectives from the Scotland Yard lend credibility to the findings of investigations into the assassination of the Pakistani leader, Benazir Bhutto, is not clear..........more...
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Overtaken by Darkness
AJAI SAHNI
The little credibility that President Pervez Musharraf’s regime had, both domestically and internationally, appears to be rapidly fading in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Conspiracy theories now abound in Pakistan,............more...
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Chinkara Gazelle or Kashmiri Hindu?
LALIT KOUL
While the pseudo-secular human rights activists are continuing to scream about Gujarat riots and clamor for face time on Indian “progressive” media outlets, they have their lips sealed and pens dry about the horrendous ethnic cleansing of 400,000+ Kashmir......more...
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Bangladesh's Guilty Men
ALLABAKSH
While pursuing its ‘minus two’ policy that seeks to exclude the two eternally quarrelling ‘Begums’, Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League and Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh National Party, from the country’s politics,.............more...
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The Sledgehammer in Swat
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The social sphere has for long been the focus of radical Islam in Pakistan. The Taliban was a state of mind even before it became a regime in Afghanistan. In a mirrored evolution, moral policing and social edicts are now an accepted reality in...........more...
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Emergency Here and There
ALLABAKSH
Many people all across the world believe that Emergency in Pakistan, now slated to be lifted by the will of ‘Mr’ Pervez Musharraf by the middle of December, was clamped mainly for the purpose of getting rid of unfriendly judges in the country’s Supreme Co......more...
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Godhra carnage vs. Pandits exodus
J. N. RAINA
The so-called ‘Tehelka expose’ has, in fact, exposed the hollowness of pseudo-secularists, who flourish on such ‘gossip’. Such loose discussions, brought to the fore repeatedly, should be put to an end once for all...........more...
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What Democracy?
ATUL COWSHISH
The Americans are by now known for pursuing foreign policy on the basis of self-made myths and beliefs and in a manner that generates deep distrust and hatred towards them even as they become shockingly indifferent to reading certain ominous writings on t......more...
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OIC, Kurdistan and Kashmir
TUSHAR CHARAN
The problem of ‘Kurdistan’ is in many ways not very different from our own Kashmir problem. One dimension of the Kashmir problem is that whenever it raises temperatures in Islamabad and Delhi it leads to anxieties in the world...........more...
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Augmenting Threat, Sclerotic Responses
AJAI SAHNI
The serial blasts in Court compounds in Uttar Pradesh are best seen as the latest link in a long chain of comparable terrorist attacks by Islamist groupings that have long received safe haven, sustenance and support from Pakistan...........more...
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Politics of Apology
KAMAL HAK
The apologies from the very people who are the perpetrators of worst crimes against the humanity will only be symbolic and dictated by sheer political expediency. The apologies carry no weight or conviction............more...
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The Jihad in Paradise
PRAVEEN SWAMI
Why did Islamism flourish in paradise – in islands apparently free from the deep social and political strains that drove its growth in Pakistan or India? Two sets of processes – cultural and political, need be examined............more...
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US unfolds 'Democracy' plan for Pakistan
ALLABAKSH
Washington is more eager than Islamabad to certify before the world that ‘democracy’ has returned to Pakistan. It matters little whether the uneasy and unnatural duo – Musharraf and Benazir..............more...
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Benazir: Gasping for power
SANDHYA JAIN
Benazir Bhutto merely underlined Pakistan's client status by calling upon America, Britain and other Western nations to give Musharraf an ultimatum regarding "democracy or dictatorship with isolation.".........more...
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The NWFP Meltdown
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
With Musharraf progressively enmeshed in the management of the political fallout of his misconceived ‘coup’, the widening trajectory of violence in NWFP demonstrates a graver failure............more...
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Mush-Bush-Benazir rope trick
M. RAMA RAO
Pervez Musharraf has begun to talk about holding elections in Pakistan. US President George Bush Junior is happy. The poll talk, from the US point, is the first sign of a slow return to normalcy............more...
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Elections Musharraf Style
M. RAMA RAO
Generals prefer half truths when they preside over the destiny of their nations. Like Gen Pervez Musharraf, for instance......
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‘Martial’ Musharraf Law
ALLABAKSH
Just as Pakistan is focused only on Kashmir when it deals with India, the US has only one objective in mind in its relations with Pakistan: the so-called war on terror...........more...
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Musharraf Must Go To Save Pakistan
J. N. RAINA
President Pervez Musharraf, who must be flogging himself for engineering proxy war in Kashmir, has delivered the last arrow from his quiver, to eliminate Al Qaeda-Taliban combine..........more...
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The Mangled Jackboot
AJAI SAHNI
Pakistan is little more than a thuggery, where the Supreme Court can simply be overrun by troops and its Chief Justice dismissed with less ceremony than would attend the sacking of a peon in a civilized country............more...
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Perpetual Crisis
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
There is a method in the madness of Islamist extremism and political violence in Pakistan, and this is constantly being reinforced, augmenting the already intolerable uncertainties for Pakistan as a nation..........more...
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Khalistan Redux
TUKOJI R. PANDIT
There are more reasons to believe, rather than disbelieve, that there is a Khalistani-ISI angle to the recent Ludhiana bomb blast............more...
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Violent end to Bhutto's exile
ALLABAKSH
It was tragic, it was dastardly and it was uncalled for. But it was not surprising—the bomb attacks obviously aimed at Benazir Bhutto, ‘the daughter of the east’, when she returned home to Karachi...........more...
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Hail Musharraf !!
ALLABAKSH
By concentrating his ire on Sharif Musharraf may be strengthening the former. But the irony is that he is appealing for national ‘reconciliation’ without willing to give up his efforts to destroy an important political party..........more...
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Pervez Musharraf: The Second Coming
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Any sense of general optimism is absent on the threshold of Musharraf’s second innings because the framework of Opposition that militates against him, both in person..............more...
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Questions before Indian Leadership
J. N. RAINA
Catch them young. India needs dedicated leadership in various fields of activity; be it political activity or economic activity. Rather ‘raise’ them young; like plant species in greenhouse nurseries,..........more...
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Uncertain Respite for Musharraf
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The state of play across Pakistan continues to remain critical, and a ‘civilian presidency’ or an ‘elected’ civilian Government in the immediate future will not only continue to face problems ensuing from...........more...
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Perversity as secularism
K. P. S. GILL
It is, indeed, amazing how polarising the political discourse has become in this country, and how entirely unnecessary and extraneous controversies are being generated by an intellectually bankrupt..........more...
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PoK: Asia’s last Colony
MAHMOOD BAIG
Incipient protests, such as the Long March of August 2007, at best bring the harsh conditions under which the people of PoK live, to the attention of the global community.......more...
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Bin Laden's Fatwa Against Musharraf & Pakistani Army
B. RAMAN
On September 20, 2007, As-Sahab, the propaganda and PSYWAR unit of Al Qaeda, disseminated an audio message of Osama bin Laden accompanied by visuals taken from past messages...........more...
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Al Qaeda Steps up Psywar Against Musharraf & Pakistani Army
B. RAMAN
Taking advantage of the current wave of Pashtun anger against Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and the Pakistani Army in the wake of the commando action in the Lal Masjid...........more...
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Tipping Point
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
President Musharraf’s options are manifestly diminishing, and there is much evidence currently indicating the stratagems of a cornered man...........more...
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Musharraf's Confessions at Kabul Jirga
ALLABAKSH
There is no reason to believe that Pakistan is about to jettison the policy of using terrorism to unsettle neighbours even when it talks of becoming a victim of terrorists, mostly holed up in the border region.........more...
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Pakistan - Three-way race for democracy trophy
M. RAMA RAO & ATUL COWSHISH
Having gained just a month ago a unique sense of independence that should have been its own from the inception, the Pakistan Supreme Court has surprised no one..........more...
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Pakistan's Garrison State Legacy
ISHTIAQ AHMED
Tan Tai Yong, a prominent historian advances the thesis that Pakistan, not India, is the heir to the garrison state legacy of British colonial rule...........more...
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A Contagion of Disorders
AJAI SAHNI
For long, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has appeared weak, feckless, and lacking in purpose and control; Pakistan’s President, on the other hand, had successfully projected himself as............more...
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The Pakistani Conundrum
VINOD VEDI
In the event of Musharraf being persuaded to resign from his army chief’s post there is every possibility that his cronies among the top brass will stand by him at crunch moment rather than back a civilian.........more...
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Indian Muslims - 'A big disappointment' to Al Qaeda
M. RAMA RAO
American intelligence experts too have now given a certificate to Indian Muslims. They (Indian Muslims) are a 'big disappointment' to Al Qaeda, these experts said in a signed terrorism intelligence report..........more...
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Musharraf and Benazir - A three-legged race to save Pakistan
B. RAMAN
What Pakistan needs today is a sincere ruler genuinely committed to the task of ridding Pakistan of the evil of religious extremism and jihadi terrorism...........more...
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Waziristan: Surging Violence
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
Despite an expanding ensemble of internal problems, there does not appear to be a sufficient determination at Islamabad, to make the necessary changes in policy and strategic objectives.........more...
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Hyderabad - Déjà, Déjà, Déjà Vu
AJAI SAHNI
Islamist terrorist attacks on soft targets have been occurring with a sickening regularity across India [outside (J&K) and the Northeast], at intervals of roughly 2 to 3 months over the past years..........more...
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Will Musharraf return to anti-India rhetoric?
ATUL COWSHISH
It is significant that though the group of seven religious parties led by Mullahs and Maulanas has reportedly broken away from Musharraf, there are divisions within that group..........more...
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Pakistan warns US and then blinks
ALLABAKSH
The US has raised hopes that India too can expect relief from ‘war on terror’. To reinforce that point it has asked Musharraf to rein in the ‘terrorist’ army’ his regime and its predecessors had trained..........more...
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The Knife-edge of Failure
AJAI SAHNI
Musharraf’s brinkmanship and manipulations have brought Pakistan’s inherent contradictions to a knife edge, and the long-projected prospects of a failed or disintegrating state are now..........more...
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Pakistan braces for 'Islamic Revolution'
ALLABAKSH
The apparent falling out between Musharraf and the religious caucus of Pakistan need not be taken as a decisive shift by Musharraf against religious extremists who have been so handy...........more...
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Beyond the Lal Masjid showdown
ISHTIAQ AHMED
Some people think that time is out now for General Musharraf. That remains to be seen, but whosoever has the responsibility to lead Pakistan after him will have to decide................more...
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LAL MASJID Operation: The Aftermath
B. RAMAN
The reactions to the raid of the Pakistani security forces into the Lal Masjid complex in Islamabad have been violent in the Pashtun belt in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)..........more...
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Terrorist Common Enemy for Indians and Pakistanis
SARLA HANDOO
Was it a mere coincidence that the failed suicide bomb attacks in London and Glasgow took place close to July 7, the 2nd anniversary of the London train blasts two years ago, which claimed 56 lives...........more...
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A Progression of Crises
AJAI SAHNI
The Lal Masjid – Jamia Hafsa crisis, which has been six slow months in the making, finally came to a boil on June 3, 2007, when militant students tried to grab a property near the mosque...........more...
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‘Doctors’ of Terrorism
ALLABAKSH
The involvement of educated persons from middle class or even rich homes in terrorism or religious-inspired violence is not an unexpected development..........more...
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Action against Lal Masjid - A new beginning for Pakistan
SARLA HANDOO
It is somewhat reassuring that the internal situation in Pakistan has not derailed the Indo-Pak dialogue process so far, though it has slowed the momentum down...........more...
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Washington's magnificent delusion
ALLABAKSH
If there is any hard talk against Musharraf in the US it comes from think tanks and editorials, not administration officials.......more...
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Lal Masjid ushers Pak Talibanization
VAZEERUDDIN
Lal Masjid, the oldest mosque in Pakistan’s made-to-order capital, Islamabad, may well have opened the country’s route to Talibanisation...........more...
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Security review in Kashmir
SARLA HANDOO
Security reviews will be a part of the drill for the administration and the security forces until Pakistan stands firmly by its commitment in letter and spirit to fight out terror...........more...
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Erased From Memory : Kashmir's Forgotten
ADITI BHADURI
The world may forget us for a season, but someday we will prove that the pen is mightier than the sword.......more...
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Mushaaraf for US - A life-belt or a millstone?
B. RAMAN
Has Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, whom the US looked upon as its life-belt in its war against the Al Qaeda brand of terrorism, turned into a millstone round its neck..........more...
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