Save us from squinted views

AFSPA Revocation is to be seen from all possible perspectives

IMPRESSIONS By Binoo Joshi

What’s this debate about the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. I find the whole debate about the revocation of the special powers  to the armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir, illogical.  The special powers  should be there when needed, why should those be there when those are not needed More

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City of my dreams

On reading Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk I remember my own city

PARALLELS By Aasif Ahmad Khanday

While I was reading a memoir by a famous Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk about Istanbul, where he spent most of his childhood years, I would repeatedly think about our own city, Srinagar, and the resonance that it enjoys to my life and times. As for myself, I was bred in a small village in South Kashmir More

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Time to reconcile

Will Pakistan miss the bus – once again

SCENARIO By Dr Abdul Majid Siraj

Pakistan is a member of the Security Council for a term of two years.  This is as close as they can get to the top governing body of the world order.  This is the most opportune time for Kashmir debacle to be given a final farewell and auger  a new era of peaceful coexistence with India More

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The hazards of co-education

Research shows that segregation is the best way

SCHOOLING By Ahangar Muhammad Sámi

One of the curses of Western civilization which is the cause of ever decreasing standard of education is co-education. Co-education is an alien idea to the Islamic society. This system of education originated in the earlier part of the twentieth century in Scotland and was taken up by several private More

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