The only package Kashmir needs is justice

KASHMIR CRISIS

If the Prime Minister does not take bold steps to address the grievances of the Kashmiris, there's no telling where the next eruption will take us, writes Siddharth Vardarajan

WHATEVER his other failings, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah deserves praise for acknowledging that the protests which have rocked the Kashmir valley these past few weeks are ‘leaderless' and not the product of manipulation by some hidden individual or group. This admission has been difficult More

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The Paradise Lost

HUMAN TRAGEDY

To regain this glory, we have to realize the truth of peace, writes Jehangir Aslam Makhdoomi

To achieve self gratification we humans can go to any great extent, cross any limits and still be starving and craving for more. Great kingdoms have been lost, powerful rulers perished and innocent blood shed; men slaughtered, women ravaged, children orphaned and yet man’s thirst for more not quenched More

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Dispute demands solution

KASHMIR

...... and unless they solve it, trouble won't end, writes M.J.Khabri

I am a Kashmiri Pandit. I continued to reside in my motherland and watched all gloom and blood during these more than twenty years. What the valley is witnessing at present is agonizing. The Government of India, like always, is acting in a grisly way with Kashmiris. They never tried to resolve the More

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