Ghulam Muhammad Mir (GM Mir), a noted Kashmiri researcher and intellectual, woefully moans: every day in the calendar is a Martyr’s Day for the people of Kashmir. His mourning succinctly portrays the plight of the people living in perpetual subjugation since 1947. It is an appalling reality that after the creation of Pakistan, leadership of Pakistan and Kashmir, by and large, did not make any sincere effort(s) to engage the ...
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Fatima Jinnah, screamed this sentence while commenting on the situation of Pakistan in 1956. She lamented that dream which prompted Muslims of India and Quaid e Azam to sacrifice and create Pakistan did not materialize. The precarity prevailing in that era hurt her deep, forcing her to utter the sentence that Quaid did not live to witness the destruction of Pakistan at the hands of incompetent, power and wealth hungry ...
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It is a horrific reality that women have been the most vulnerable sufferers of wars, rebellions and mutinies. They have been taken as articles of war booty, raped, tortured to death, sold or traded like animals. Those who were killed or chose to plunged into rivers, wells or hanged themselves with tree got free of perpetual mental trauma; those who were spared to live continue to live with deep scars ...
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True mettle of a leader, political or military, is gauged when he faces adversarial situation(s), when a disaster seems imminent. When commoners lose hope and stumble to blunders, worsening the state of affairs, real leaders, showing grace under pressure, display true headship and come up with extra ordinary plans and strategies: which turn the table on the opponents or dull the defeat. Great leaders do not put their hands up, ...
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Jalalabad Operation was launched in 5 March 1989, by Mujahedeen comprising eight groups against Najibullah Regime. The operation in question remained (largely) shrouded in mystery. Many military and sometimes political analysts (ironically) on hold General Hameed Gul, then ISI Chief (unfairly) squarely responsible for the unsuccessfulness of the operation and its fallouts later on. The fact of the matter is that most of discussions and analyses in our mainstream media are ...
Read MoreIt might be startling for many that Dogra Raj in Kashmir was known for so many good reasons. The life and property of the common man was not as insecure as it is nowadays, in AJk and Pakistan .The courts, by and large, were free to dispense justice to common people, even to those who did not have any approach or backing. However, in our country, it is a sad fact ...
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Every year, November 6 reminds us of the plight of tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims from Jammu, who were beguiled into in a vicious trap and then slaughtered in cold blood. Those innocent and clueless Muslims, promised to facilitate their migration to their other home – Pakistan, never saw the day again. They did not have any idea that a dark and gruesome fate awaited them; thousands of old, ...
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After Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August 19, 2021, a plethora of debates have raged in media, discussing hopes from Afghanistan .In fact many have started drawing inferences ranging from high hopes of transforming Afghanistan into an entirely Islamic welfare state based on sharia (the Islamic law) to conspiracy oriented shades of prospects, citing the swiftness which Kabul embraced the Taliban. Can Afghanistan become a state envisioned by ...
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During last three decades, Afghanistan witnessed rise, fall and rise of the taliban, a force that changed the paradigms of war and resistance. In early 90s, when the taliban ran through Afghanistan, the world saw them in absolute awe. They were portrayed as barbaric forces, who were against modernization including education for women. It is pertinent to remind the world, especially the journalist community that the taliban emerged as an indigenous ...
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The newly sworn in prime minister(13th) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi, has struck a surprise to many. In fact his name came to the limelight after Ik nominated him for the premiership. Well known for his humble family background and untainted political career ,it is widely believed that the PM would contribute significantly to development of AJK and strengthen the base camp, adding a life ...
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