Need to assert

Otherwise we will be reduced to a powerless people

Words WITHIN By Firdous Syed

This is no democracy but disempowered democracy.  Politicians are nothing more than figure heads. Chief ministers here have been nothing more than dignified clerks. He can’t even remove a heap of messily placed sandbags called bunkers, on his own. On Tuesday Home minster of India paid a day-long More

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The Generation of Change

Two Boys, Two Stories – One Inspiration, One Yearning Change

HOPE By Junaid Azim Mattu

Mary Robinson, the seventh, and first female President of Ireland famously said that “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”. Nothing could perhaps be a more inspiring statement for a generation of young Kashmiris who have inherited their State More

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Difficulties of Parenting

Listen and compliment your children

PARENTING By Firdous Ahmad Var/ Muhammad Altaf Paul

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” Once your child or teen starts deviating from his direction, parents feel they are not better parents, or can not understand their child. Here are some suggestions, which may help you in dealing with what is sometimes More

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Be pragmatic

Both India and Pakistan will have to be realistic in solving Kashmir dispute

KASHMIR By Azam Inqilabi

Dr. Manmohan Singh and Asif Ali Zardari share the credit of holding a meeting on all bilateral issues including Kashmir. Hardliners in Pakistan thundered against the initiative of Mr. Zardari to proceed to New Delhi. The much hyped “informal” meeting of the two leaders turned out to be an interface More

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• Kashmir

• Srinagar City

• Jammu

• South Asia

• PaK