It was said that Gupkar Alliance had check matted the BJP by deciding to participate in the elections. However, in the larger perspective, this interpretation seems faulty keeping in mind the political history of Kashmir post 1947.
A pragmatic way out to resolve the lingering stand-off is through negotiations, even if it takes time. With winter already having set in it will be in the interest of both the countries to reach an understanding that also holds on the ground.
Illegal mining has not only pushed up the costs but also detrimentally impacted the environment as the mining thus done doesn’t follow any environmental safeguards. It is therefore time for the government to act and ensure the illegal mining is stopped forthwith.
Winning the DDC polls by the Gupkar grouping will certainly prove that the majority of the people in J&K are against the revocation of Article 370. But the big question is whether the DDCs once they are formed will be able and willing to assert this fact – administratively if not politically
Four music videos—“Janaan”, “Hosh Ho”, “Jhelum” and “Khuaftan Baange”—were recently released on social media as a fall collection depicting the deep-set melancholy of the landscape grappling with the perpetual pain.
Two massive cardiac arrests consumed two sound Kashmiri journalists within two months and left the entire fraternity wondering about their stressful lives.
The popular distrust of people, coupled up with their political history suggests that their new trysts might just be a time buying exercise through which leaders are trying to somehow get people accustomed to the “new normal”
In short, Kashmir on Friday lost a people’s journalist in Mudasir Ali. “Mudasir would listen more, understand more, write more. And speak less.”
In 2014, when Pakistan’s Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan (KAGB) announced the GB merger plan, the PaK assembly opposed this idea and unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that making Gilgit-Baltistan a fifth province will weaken Pakistan’s national stand on JK at the international level.
Each newspaper with a minor exception here and there has become a PR effort undertaken on behalf of the government. In a way, the drastic dilution of news and the self-censorship practiced by these papers is a media bellwether.
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