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The NDA government’s approach over the last two months in Kashmir has amounted to ignoring the scale of casualties and depth of suffering. A real worry is that the Modi government’s analysis of the problem leaves it very little scope to reach out to Kashmiris, let alone explore a political...

The BJP has two choices today. Either make this visit about separatist rejection and let the social media trolls have their day. Or it can recognise that Opposition leaders have taken risks to try and salvage something for Delhi and take the separatist refusal as a sign of deep disaffection, and...

The US has already said Balochistan is Pakistan's internal matter, and that it does not endorse Modi's position. Why are you bringing Balochistan into this thread? Forget about the international community, even your own countrymen are asking Modi to focus on fixing IoK rather than talking...

UNITED NATIONS NEEDS TO ADDRESS KASHMIR DISPUTE: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTER ADDRESSED TO JOHN KERRY BY KASHMIRIS DELIVERED TO US DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, D.C., U.SA...

What a wonderfully succinct statement: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The joint resistance leadership on Sunday lashed out at Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, accusing her of "trying to justify the Indian brutalities"...

The PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir has been woefully inefficient in handling the ongoing cycle of protests that broke out on 9 July. However, while the BJP's "no-sympathies" lines is clear, the PDP has shown through its response that not only does it know what to do, it has no idea what...

Modi's "magic touch" on display.

SRINAGAR: Police say around 100 people have been injured as Indian government forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to quell thousands of protesters who pelted rocks and burned a government office in India-held Kashmir. A police officer said clashes erupted Sunday when police tried to stop...

Kashmir’s summer of 2016 is ending with a significant shift – and only the security establishment seems to be aware of it. After the horrifying statistics of killings, and the maiming and blinding of protestors and bystanders, usually accompanied by the clichéd explanations of what has been...

Money talks.

Looks like despite India's claim of all being well in J&K, there is still curfew in a few regions in Kashmir; and a complete shutdown there.

SRINAGAR: Authorities have imposed curfew as the separatist protest shutdown continued for the 57th consecutive day in the Valley on Saturday. Police said curfew has been imposed in Baramulla, Sopore and Badgam towns in addition to areas falling under Nowhatta and MR Gunj in Srinagar city...

The difference is that the Kashmir uprising today is a popular, mainstream movement with a high participation from civilians; whereas, that is not the case in FATA in the WOT, where the strikes have specifically targeted militant groups.' When the Pakistan Army told tribals to evacuate the...

I agree that Ladakh and Jammu are not anti-Indian, but the Kashmir Valley is. Let Ladakh and Jammu stay with India, hold referendum in the Kashmir region. Ladakh is wanting to secede from the Valley anyways, as I mentioned in my previous post. Likewise, people in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan do...

"Mr Azad said two-thirds of Jammu and Kashmir is involved in the unrest and the magnitude of the problem is far bigger than 2010 civilian unrest." http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bjp-the-right-party-to-solve-kashmir-taunts-ghulam-nabi-azad-1452278 As Kashmir Turmoil Continues, Ladakh Demands...

India is seen as a bigger player because it is a nation of 1.25 billion people (huge market to explore) and a counterweight to China. If Pakistan wasn't relevant, it would be part of the UNSC member states or SCO.

The uprising was from indigenous Kashmiri youth, you can live in fantasy world, but Kashmir Valley is full of disenfranchised youth. The thousands of people injured by pellet guns will pick up arms against the state if they get hold of arms. India has failed to win over the hearts and minds of...

The kashmiri people in the Valley don't trust anyone now, not the PDP/NC, not the central government, not the Army or the separatists. This does not bode well for India.

Pakistan doesn't need to do anything. Hard or soft approach by India towards Kashmir hasn't worked. The Kashmiri people saw the NC playing politics in 2010, in the next elections, they got the PDP to power. Mehbooba Mufti had a certain amount of legitimacy in the Kashmir Valley, particularly in...