June 28, 2021 | Kashmir POST

Twitter shows the different map; J&K, Ladakh demarcated from India

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

This is not the first time that a different map of India has been shown by Twitter. In November 2020, the microblogging website showed Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir instead of the Union Territory of Ladakh. Amidst the tussle between Twitter and the Central Government, Twitter’s career website, Tweep Life, shows a demarcation between the map of India and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are represented as separate countries. This is not the first time that a different map of India has been…

Maisuma, Batamaloo, Pantha Chowk, Hari Parbat among pockets of densely populated land in Kashmir on the defence ministry’s radar

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

The defense ministry claims to own the land under an agreement dating back to 1956. But revenue officials say it was under the state government until now. Four prime locations in Srinagar are among the six pockets of land in Kashmir that defense ministry officials visited this year as part of their effort to survey and demarcate plot boundaries, official correspondence accessed shows. The defence ministry has long claimed ownership over this land which measures over 190 acres, roughly the size of 50 cricket fields. It is described in the…

Modi’s Kashmir Gamble and Uttar Pradesh Election

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

India’s Kashmir policy is part external affairs, part home affairs. Depending upon the predilection of the person in power in Delhi, the relative share varies. For example, in Pandit Nehru’s time, when foreign policy used to matter more, it was primarily seen through the prism of international politics. But in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s time, since Hindutva politics is reigning all the way, his Kashmir policy is nothing but an extension of his Hindutva ideological thrust. Behind every move in Kashmir, the Modi government needs to see how it would…

What does GoI want to do in Kashmir?

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Behzad Taimur Kashmir has once again been in the news. On June 23rd, last week, Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, held a “surprise” meeting with 14 political leaders from Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IOJK). This meeting has come to be seen as a “breaking of ice” moment following the illegal actions of the Modi government on August 5th, 2019, and thereafter. It is supposed to have begun a “political process” between New Delhi and IOJK. It is being said that this “political process” would lead to the lifting…

Modi’s meeting with J&K leaders was nothing but posturing aimed at placating the international community

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Arun Srivastava Some of the leaders from Jammu and Kashmir who attended the June 24 meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have already realised that his design, wrapped in the cliché of ‘Naya Kashmir’, was primarily aimed at serving the interest of the international players and also to entrap the Kashmiri leaders. The deliberations at the meeting made it abundantly clear that Modi took utmost pains to conceal his real intentions and has nothing new to offer to the people of the region. As usual, he resorted to obsolete…

PM likely to take some revolutionary steps in J&K: Kavinder Gupta

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Just days after the Centre held all-party meeting with leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to take some “revolutionary steps” in J&K. Gupta was part of the three-member BJP delegation from Jammu and Kashmir who attended the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi in Delhi on June 24. The BJP leader said that the central government would restore Jammu and Kashmir’s past glory that too with people getting opportunities as…

Difference in the conduct of Mehbooba Mufti during and after PM’s J&K all-party meet: Muzaffar Baig

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffar Hussain Baig, one of the leaders who attended PM Modi’s J&K all-party meeting on Thursday, in an exclusive conversation with India TV gave insights of the meeting, spoke about the conduct of PDP chief and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti among other issues. Muzaffar Hussain Baig said that talks with the Prime Minister were held in a good atmosphere adding that he noted down all the important issues which were raised during the…