To revoke or not

AFSPA or no AFSPA, will it make any difference

Write Hand By Ajaz-ul-Haque

Armed Forces Special Powers Act has generated a great heat. The debate seems to be endless and the arguments inconclusive. Parties involved refuse to relent. Those who support the instant revocation see it as a milestone in the way of peace. Those who want to continue with it fear that Kashmir without More

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Development is good, but…

As part of statist discourse development doesn’t exactly mean development in the conflicted zones

DISCOURSE By Mehmood ur Rashid

The importance of economic development in the conflict zones is pointedly important in strategic thinking and policy making. In fact it has brought about a paradigm shift in the understanding of how and the why conflicts have prolonged when they were thought of as reaching an end. The extreme and More

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So you are talented

Kashmiris are the most talented people as they say!

OBSERVATION By Inam ul Rehman

Talent needs competition. Conformity produces mediocre. A construction is being engineered here where a student, to be good, should not argue with teachers. He must not ask uncomfortable questions. The mark of intelligence here is one who secures top marks in his grades. No wonder those who secure More

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Of Meem-Sahib Salam

Nostalgia By ZGM

Childhood is childhood. I don’t think it can be described.  Explaining it, I believe would be denuding it of its innocence, purity, charm and beauty. I, and the whole crop of my generation was born on the cusp of historical changes - but we inherited some fads, fancies, whoopees, buffooneries More

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An unpleasant winter

From democracy to anarchy, Kashmir offers little to nurse optimism today

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Sounding like a cynic is not a comfortable feeling. But, sadly, life in today's Kashmir doesn't leave much room for optimism either. A brief Eid holiday in Srinagar has left me with a feeling of 90s' deja vu, except for the fact that there are no boys brandishing guns anymore in the city. There More

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