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Roads or Ruins: Horrors of travelling

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No one questions authorities who are responsible for planning and building of roads Sehar Saleem The National Highway 1A (NH1A) is a traffic horror story in itself with traffic gridlocks spanning on it at numerous places, starting from Sonawar, to Badami Bagh, Athwajan, Pantha Chowk, Pampore and so on. One of the biggest worry for Kashmiris is traffic jams and bad roads. Being a regular traveler on NH1A since the last five months, I have seen traffic jams last for hours. I have seen ambulances get stuck in traffic, desperate…

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Eight Ps that led to second PDP-BJP government

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Prof. Gull Wani Mehbooba Mufti was successful by delaying the government formation, and it was a positive step by her because she by doing so managed public opinion in state of Jammu Kashmir especially in Kashmir. By delaying the government formation Mehbooba tried to manage public opinion, and also make opinion leaders, civil society members, media and intelligential to think over it. While at the same time she was saying to us that the coalition government was an unpopular type of arrangement for us. If we look at political history,…

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Road ahead of Mehbooba

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Sheikh Shabir So Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti has taken oath as Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir. As the first woman CM of the state, she has created history. Her willingness to take over the hot seat boldly shows she likes to accept challenges. In view of her talking over, it can be said that the situation is tailor made for her in Jammu Kashmir which is full of challenges in every walk of life. These challenges are going to test her mettle and her leadership abilities though…

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Governor’s Rule puts “Popular” government to test

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K B Jandial Finally, the two and half months’ long  political uncertainty in the sensitive border state of J&K has come to a happy end, thanks to the “positive meeting” of Mehbooba Mufti and PM Modi at 7 RCR, New Delhi on 22rd March, 2016. It is not as important to unearth the  “positive” assurances (CBMs) that have been given to Mehbooba Mufti in her half an hour meeting as the breaking of ice between two alliance partners – PDP and BJP which all through maintained that their alliance was…

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If the Kashmiris cheer for Afridi’s team, can we blame them?

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Was Shahid Afridi right in saying that the support his Pakistani team got in India was from Kashmiris? BCCI grandee and BJP MP Anurag Thakur said Afridi was “politically incorrect” to have said it. Perhaps, but was he factually correct? Apparently. The Times of India’s Twitter account for sports ran a clip headlined: “WATCH: Fans from Kashmir bat for Pakistan cricket team ahead of Australia clash in Mohali.” The Kashmiri fans concerned said they would support Pakistan even over India. This may not surprise many readers. In one of his…

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Internet addiction leads to family disputes

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Dr. Mudassir Hassan Pandith Recently, a case of 10-year-old young boy, Arshid (name changed), was referred to me for counseling and psycho-therapeutic assessment, which motivated me to pen down this write-up. The main complaint about this boy was lack of interest, lack of response when called upon, decreased interest in studies, bargaining with family members for every routine task, aggressive behavior and poor performance at school. The boy exhibited an average level of intellectual functioning but appeared interested more in mobile indulgence and unusual obsession for internet .This boy, in…

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Role of State Subjects in India

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Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani It is high time that the citizens of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, (legally identified as State Subjects), and the opinion makers assign to themselves a serious consideration of their respective roles in the State (Valley in particular) and their roles as students, businessmen, teachers, lawyers and others during their residence in various parts of India. It is important that in addition to their needful roles in various disciplines and walks of life they take well measured steps to advocate the tragedy of the Muslims…

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Kashmiris, unwelcome guests!

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Javaid Malik Kashmiris have become soft targets and are unwelcome guests in any state. Kashmiris being treated as suspects is nothing new and they have accepted this reality. Every now and then Kashmiris putting up in other states have to face harassment on the pretext of security concerns. Kashmiris are humiliated, called all the names and are made to realize that they are “source of trouble.” It seems for Delhi only the land of Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part while the denizens of this unfortunate land are nothing…

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Marking J&K students across India

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Rajni Shaleen Chopra Omar Abdullah has rightly expressed apprehension about the order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, asking Kolkata Police for details about students from Jammu and Kashmir studying in colleges there. According to The Indian Express, the exercise is being conducted to create dossiers on J&K students so that the police can monitor their activities. The newspaper has reported that following the JNU controversy, the Centre had issued an advisory to all states to take adequate precautionary measures, and avoid a repeat of such incidents. From this,…

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Why is Geelani’s health a major concern?

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Shujaat Bukhari On March 11, in a sprawling compound housing Pakistan’s High Commission in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri an unusual prayer was held in which more than three dozen people echoed with “Aameen” to every word said by the Moulvi (the preacher). It was not a prayer meeting held for the victims of terrorism in Pakistan or for the stability of the country that has been reeling under extremist violence for past over a decade. The occasion was to pray for the speedy recovery of ailing veteran separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani—…

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