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The recent killings of minorities, migrant workers, and local police officers in the Kashmir Valley have led to an impression that the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir is once again becoming uncontrollable. On ground, however, the situation is said to be firmly under the control of the Indian State. This does not mean that terrorism has been eliminated; small terrorist groups continue to operate and attack soft targets, heightening the sen
Article 370 is a burden on the people of Jammu and Kashmir which has been misused by successive State governments to stall the delivery of several public welfare initiatives of the Central Government, according to dean of Jammu Central University.
Examining the legal implications of the new domicile laws and what that may mean for the people of Jammu and Kashmir seems to indicate that negative p
What has happened is a stroke of legal genius: the provisions of Article 370 have been used to render it meaningless and toothless by deleting all the
Pakistan, with its innumerable terrorist organisations, some of them now working on their own, would provide enough fertile ground for organisations like ISIS to thrive within and spread outwards from here. It must be remembered that Al Qaeda leadership is still based in the FATA of Pakistan from where it continues to give directions.
That the turnout is despite the sweeping constitutional changes and the harshest lockdown that Kashmir has ever witnessed in its troubled history is s
A plan is needed to deal with the changing nature of the militancy.
The Jammu attack has presaged a model that deepens and exploits asymmetries between two uneven actors and where the weaker side tries to balance the s
With arms and terror infiltration becoming difficult, Pakistan has now resorted to drug trafficking to destroy Kashmir's youth
Past discussions surrounding Jammu and Kashmir’s possible Balkanisation almost always envisioned Jammu being severed from Kashmir.
There is a growing sense in the police bureaucracy that all decisions big or small will be taken from New Delhi or in concurrence with the wishes of p
जम्मू-कश्मीर पुलिस को भी यह डर है कि उसे कानून व्यवस्था (Law a
Jammu and Kashmir: आतंकवादियों को उपलब्ध वित्तीय सहायता (Terror Financing in Kashmir)
PM Modi’s only problem is that he lacks a political aide with sufficient heft to take the conversation on Kashmir forward.
The operational success of the security forces is commendable, but their real test would be against the hard-core and well-trained JeM and LeT terrori
Kashmir urgently needs political manoeuvring to start a new political process for democracy, through the will of the people, to triumph.
The fast–tracking of US–Taliban talks, and the following meeting between Trump and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan cannot be sold as one of
It’s not even about aazadi now, the fight is for Allah and the faith.
For the first time in last four years, the Modi government has expressed a willingness to hold talks with the Hurriyat. The acknowledgment of separati
The intention behind removing Article 370 has been to encourage further investment and improve the security in Kashmir.
Even those who had built their careers around the old institutional framework seems to have adjusted to the ‘new normal’ where the real stakeholde
The fact that drones made from scrap and duct-tape carrying improvised explosive devices are able to damage conventional aircraft on ground, worth millions of dollars, brought forward a new set of challenges for defence policymakers
Twenty-five uninterrupted years of mostly weak coalition governments at the Centre may have closed political options in Jammu and Kashmir, but now that we have a majority government in New Delhi, decisions may be easier.
With over 415,000 Kashmiri civilians meeting the diagnostic criteria for a major depressive disorder, interventions aimed at improving mental health i
The continued collaboration between various stakeholders is crucial to effectively foster trust and maintain peace in the Valley.
In pushing J&K leaders out of the spectrum of political participation, the Centre is inching closer towards making an internal colony out of the erstwhile state.
Pakistan who always exhibited the tactics of an intransigent bully and every time the Commission bowed to her intransigence.
Pakistan has issued a wishy-washy statement that predictably denies any role as has been charged by India.
Politics of appeasement must be done away with and New Delhi should extend all the anti-corruption laws of India, especially the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in Jammu and Kashmir.
Would India–Pakistan relations witness an upswing under the newly formed government of Shehbaz Sharif?
Governor’s rule will end next month, a spell of President’s rule may be next
India has always lacked the counter-narrative to Pakistan’s misinformation campaigns, but will the current communications clampdown make it lose the
