Editorial Board - February 8, 2020
Considering so few ministers came to Kashmir as against Jammu, the outreach wasn’t focussed on the Valley. J&K observers think that the barrage of ministerial visits was basically meant for Jammu
Observer News Service - February 1, 2020
As the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti continues to be detained following New Delhi’s withdrawal of Article 370, her party is fast falling apart with many of its leaders leaving it
Editorial Board - January 11, 2020
When a right is violated, the remedy has to be the restoration of the right.
Observer News Service - December 23, 2019
The problem is that polls are not a simple democratic exercise in Valley. They have a meaning and a dimension that goes beyond the government formation
Observer News Service - December 11, 2019
There is now a chorus building up for the government to at least start broadband services which has a smaller penetration. As for as the internet is concerned, least that the government can do is to initially restore the broadband connections
Observer News Service - December 6, 2019
Protests against the scrapping of the state’s autonomy by the Narendra Modi government have been muted in Kashmir
Observer News Service - November 23, 2019
The shock of revocation of Article 370 is yet to sink in. And most of this shock springs from the deepening anxiety about the identity
Observer News Service - October 9, 2019
Mere lifting of advisory by the government will not do. It has to be urgently followed by the subsequent steps like restoring of mobile phones and the internet
Observer News Service - September 29, 2019
The much-awaited speeches of the prime minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan at the United Nations General Assembly were along predictable lines – albeit this time the contrast in their content was starker. While the PM chose to ignore Pakistan and Kashmir and focussed speech on his government’s achievements in India, Khan […]
Observer News Service - September 22, 2019
Any mention or thought about Jammu and Kashmir, India’s troubled northern state, habitually brings to mind the image of Farooq Abdullah, an 83 year old tall, chubby man with wisps of gray hair on the sides of a bald pate, which is often crested with a Karakul, a Kashmiri sheepskin cap. For four decades he […]