It is incredibly unfortunate that Indian politicians even hinting at a more mild approach to the Kashmir question are accused of everything from treason to insanity by much of Indian media, as well as by mainstream Indian politicians. But the fact is that contrary to conventional thinking, a Jammu and Kashmir […]
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Political History Should Not Succumb to The Zero Sum Mentality
It is one thing for people to argue about the politics of the present, but because of the present’s indelible relationship to the past, political history often arouses emotions as strong and in some cases stronger than those which transpire throughout the course of debates on contemporary matters. And yet, […]
The Political Consequences Of The Pulwama Attack
A native Kashmiri carried out the deadliest fedayeen attack against Indian occupation forces in history after he drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a 78-bus convoy and killed over 42 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary troops, instantly drawing global attention to the indigenous struggle of his people and threatening to […]
Kashmir: Nothing Happens in a Vacuum
2018 was the deadliest year for Kashmiri civilians in a decade. This fact was affirmed not only by the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) but by the Washington Post. The rising death toll among Kashmiris in 2018 was itself a culmination of an increasingly violent approach taken […]
Reading Between The Lines: India Has Sour Grapes Over America’s Afghan Peace Talks
The clearest indication of how the Indian military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) truly feel about America’s Afghan peace talks with the Taliban can be seen in retired Major-General Harsha Kakar’s recent article on the topic for “The Statesman”, where the otherwise presumably serious former military official shows the […]
Pakistan’s Response to India’s West Asia Hegemon Ambitions: Do or Die
Fledgling states located in regions filled with ideological, religious and ethnic strife, territorial disputes and various unfinished agendas have very little margin for error if they wish to preserve their security. The conception of security by such states must be dynamic and multifaceted and allotted a geospatial and chronological dimension […]
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Are Far More Dangerous to The World Than The End of INF
The fact of the matter is that just as the 20th century arms race between the United States and Soviet Union did not result in the dropping of any nuclear weapons, the effective end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) signed in 1988 by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, will […]
India’s Hand in The 2020 US Presidential Election
While many believe that the Russian government worked to achieve the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 US Presidential election, those concerned with foreign governments interfering in the political processes of other states ought to investigate the relationship between Tulsi Gabbard and the India’s BJP government of Narendra Modi. […]
Pakistan Has Not Only a Right But a Duty to Communicate With Kashmiri Political Leaders
India has summoned Pakistan’s ambassador, whilst New Delhi has warned that communications between Islamabad and political leaders in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) will have “implications”, after Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi held a telephone conversation with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the leader of Kashmir’s All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Pakistan’s government responded to India’s […]
Apologists For Tulsi Gabbard’s Links to Extremism Undermine Secular Indian Politicians
Little in politics is more dangerous than tarring an entire group of people with a provocative image associated with a single extremist sect that is either a part of or adjunct to the broader group in question. But this is exactly what Tulsi Gabbard did when she insisted that all […]