In recent times questions are being raised on reasons behind increasing number of youth picking the gun in lieu of the pen in Kashmir. The most common reasons being given are radicalization, highhandedness of security forces, lack of employment opportunities and poor governance. The most dominating factor mentioned by all is radicalization. Security experts claim the current tipping point in […]
Post the Sunjuwan attack, Mehbooba Mufti asked the government of India to initiate talks with Pakistan. She even stated in the state assembly, ‘If Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti say talk to Pakistan, they are dubbed anti-nationals. There is no alternative except by holding talks’. She went on to add, ‘we have fought three wars, 1947, 1965 and 1971 and […]
Post the Shopian firing incident, in retaliation to stone pelting, resulting in two deaths, the state lodged an FIR against army personnel including the officer who was leading the convoy, even though the officer was not present at the scene of the incident. The mob attempted to snatch army weapons and even tried to lynch the JCO leading the convoy, […]
The recent decision of the J and K state government to condone stone throwers, many of whom were habitual offenders, while charging army personnel, who were victims of stone throwing and opened fire in self-defence, in an FIR, is the latest confused news emanating from the valley. Photographs of damaged vehicles, injured army personnel and littered stones were ignored. Had […]
The recent incident in which an isolated part of an army administrative column came under stone pelting, attempted burning of vehicles and snatching of a weapon as also near lynching of a JCO in Shopian, resulted in the army opening fire in self-defence. It led to two deaths and a few injured. The CM, Mehbooba Mufti immediately called the defence […]
The recent incident in Shopian, Kashmir, when the army opened fire to disperse stone pelters who were seeking to lynch army personnel accompanying a convoy and burn their vehicles, resulting in the death of two civilians has dominated headlines. The police, on the orders of the state government, registered an FIR against a Major accompanying the convoy and one more, […]
Mehbooba Mufti, stated while addressing the passing out parade of the J and K police in Kathua recently, that merely eliminating militants will not wipe out militancy, it needs a more humane approach. This statement of Mufti comes close on the heels of her government announcing cancelling of court cases against first time stone throwers. It also comes soon after […]
Post the announcement of Dineshwar Sharma as the centre’s interlocutor for Kashmir, there have been a series of contradictory comments emanating from the region only adding to the existing confusion. Comments are more political, seeking either to support the centre’s decision or counter it, based on the ideology of the party. In some cases, the statements are rhetoric and on […]
Majid Khan, a twenty- year old footballer from Anantnag, who had recently joined the LeT, surrendered last weekend. He was paraded in a press conference with the police claiming that a relentless campaign on social media, based on an appeal by his mother, compelled him to surrender. The army even announced that there would be no charges against him and […]
Contradictory statements have been emanating from various quarters on the future of Kashmir. Mehbooba Mufti, the present Chief Minister stated at the Express Adda recently, ‘the only way forward is to have a dialogue, which I am glad is happening now’. She was talking on the appointment of Dineshwar Sharma as the interlocutor. MOS Jitendra Sharma simultaneously stated in Jammu […]