Treacherous Tract

Not individualistic but collective approach needed

Punchline By Z.G. Muhammad

IT is a very bizarre scenario. With endgame drawing closer in Afghanistan there are new dynamics at play in South Asia comparable to the post-cold war period that had seen United States distancing itself from Pakistan - it held in “tight embrace” after the Soviet invasion.  In the emerging scenario More

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Lest we forget

Of rituals, emotions and a collectivity called Kashmir

MUSINGS By Muqbil Burhan

BERNIER, the first European to enter Kashmir, called it the kingdom that surpasses in beauty all that his warmest imaginations could anticipate. Never in the figment of his imaginations would he or any one have predicted what it is today. Each house in its vale has a story of its own to share. The More

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How Serene was My Srinagar

Pictures that bring alive the city in its pristine glory

LANDSCAPE By Ashraf Jallu

THE memory of my school and the time spent there shall stay with me as long as I am alive. I am an alumnus of MPML Higher secondary Schoool, Bhag-i-Dilawar Khan (1958-1963). I could not get an opportunity to revisit this great institution ever since I finished my high schooling. Three years earlier More

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Kazak migrants in Kashmir

A significant chapter of Kashmir history

HISTORY By Prof. Fida Hassnain

THE Kazak’s have migrated from Xiajiang in waves, during 1936 and 1960. In 1936, 20,000 Kazak’s were expelled from their homeland by General Ma Bufang, a loyal agent of China, who massacred about 20,000 Kazak’s. They refused to accept the Communist way of life over their Islamic identity, which intermixed More

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