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The Chenab Plan: BJP's sell-out?
Praveen
Swami
On
March 8, 2000, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and a group of his
top Cabinet colleagues held a secret meeting with Farooq Kathwari, a
US-based secessionist leader. The closed-door meeting, held at the
Secretariat at Jammu, appears to be just part of a larger
US-sponsored covert dialogue on J&K. Indeed
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Conflicts
and contradictions within APHC
What others
say......
The
removal of the prominent Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Mr Syed Ali
Shah Geelani, from the executive of the All Party Hurriyat
Conference, signals a significant shift in the politics of the
umbrella separatist alliance. Mr Geelani is a well-known hard-liner
who has continued to publicly justify militancy and the use of
violence against India .......More >>>> |
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Dialogue on Kashmir and
‘Pakistan First’
Shabir
Choudhry
It
is claimed that Pakistan is a ‘Fort of Islam’; and that the
country was established for Muslims, assuming that for Muslims of
the world and not only Muslims of Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and
Frontier. This myth was soon shattered when East Pakistan broke away
to become Bangladesh; and those who fought for united Pakistan, and ......More >>>> |
J &
K: Operation Sarp Vinash
Praveen
Swami
Most
afternoons, there is plenty of work at the Foreigners' Graveyard
in Surankote, digging graves for the bodies of terrorists killed in
the mountains. The small green field behind the Surankote police
station used to be the size of a suburban bungalow lawn. It now
sprawls over an area of an outsize football field, and threatens to
overrun adjoin .......More >>>> |
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Rhetoric & reality in Jammu & Kashmir
Sumer
Kaul
Top
leaders of the BJP seem to be rejoicing over the J&K
elections. Indeed, their broad smiles and euphuistic statements
present a never-seen-before spectacle of a party celebrating not
only the defeat of an ally but its own debacle. Those committed to
echoing the Establishment line may say that the celebration
underlines the BJP's.....More >>>> |
Is
Azad Kashmir disputed?
Ejaz
Haider
The
UN resolutions that speak of Kashmir (the entire region) as
disputed and call for a plebiscite to determine its future have long
been allowed to fall by the wayside by India. Having done that, it
was only natural for New Delhi to emphasise that Kashmir’s
accession was an irreversible and complete process and the region
was not disputed ......More >>>> |
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It
is, perhaps, back to square one!
M
V Kamath
It
is once again back to square one. The enthusiasm aroused about a
possible rapprochement between India and Pakistan by Prime Minister
Vajpayee's conciliatory speech in Srinagar has all but died down. In
an interview given to the German paper Frankfurter Allegemeine
Zeiting on 23 May the Prime Minister ruled out all possibilities.......More >>>> |
India and Pakistan,
misguided priorities
Swaraj
Singh
Time
has come for India and Pakistan to focus on the real problems of
their people. It seems that so far they have been unable to sort out
their priorities . The real problems of the subcontinent have been
mostly ignored. Even a casual look at the subcontinent makes some
problems apparent. These include overpopulation, congestion, .....More >>>> |
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Indian
saga of crime, sex and politics
Syed
Ali Mujtaba
It
may sound strange, but it is normal to find crime, politics and
sex going hand in hand in the Hindi heartland of India. A cocktail
of one such combination came to light when a little known young
poetess Madhumita Shukla was murdered in her apartment in Lucknow.
Six months pregnant, Madhumitta was alleged to have relations with.......More >>>> |
Marxism
Should be Indianized
Swaraj
Singh
Marxism arose as a
counter philosophy to the dominant capitalist philosophy in the
West. The traditional capitalism was “cut and dry,” based on
profit alone. There were no other considerations such as social,
humanitarian, or cultural. So long profit is being generated, the
system can keep running. But in practice, the economic system is .......More >>>> |
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