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How Will Taliban Victory Impact Kashmir

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How Will Taliban Victory Impact Kashmir

By Mohammad Tahir The official data indicates that not many Afghans had entered the Kashmir insurgency in the early 1990s. Data on foreign militants who have been arrested or killed during the years when the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan (1996-2001) is hard to come by. The South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) website used to feature a separate dataset on foreign militants in Kashmir, but that information is no longer available on the website, for unknown reasons. Most commentators and analysts, therefore, have been using quantifiers instead of specifying the exact…

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Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

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Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

By Ummar Jamal On Saturday soon after police arrested Ashiq Mir, one of the associates of Shahid Imran, running a social media page –Kashmir Crown—in connection with a case of exhortation under section 383 of IPC, social media journalism became the recent talk of the street. Social media journalism was targeted for inauthenticity and unreliability. Journalists associated with print and television media voiced that social media journalism had degraded the prestige of journalism. They exclaimed that nowadays every Tom, Dick, and Harry buy a mic and put on an identity…

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Hope: Keeps You Alive

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Hope - Keeps You Alive

By – Aubaid Ahmed Akhoon “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise, you begin excusing yourself “ (Margaret Atwood) Change is the law of nature and for the last two years every aspect of life has been affected by Covid 19, but if we put aside the negative effects and consider the positive ones, we will see many positive aspects such as…

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Kashmir’s Descent into Drugs & Criminalization

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Kashmir’s Descent into Drugs & Criminalization

Javed Beigh Recently, Kashmir valley was rocked by two disturbing news. The first one was related to the news of a 10-year-old Kashmiri boy being brought by his father to a drug de-addiction center in Srinagar for heroin abuse, which was alarming given heroin is an expensive and highly intoxicating, and dangerous drug. And for a 10-year-old child to be using it, shows that Kashmir’s drug addiction problem has reached a critical threshold, wherein a substantial youth population of Kashmir valley is not just dealing with a mere drug addiction…

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Why are Sikhs of Kashmir angry?

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Why are Sikhs of Kashmir angry

By Javed Beigh Kashmir has historically been a multi-religious society, where Kashmiri Muslims, Kashmiri Hindu Pandits, and Kashmiri Sikhs have lived with each other for centuries maintaining the cordial, harmonious, and brotherly relationship. Sikhs of Kashmir, who actually are not historically from Punjab but are believed to be Brahmin and Rajput converts from the neighboring Jammu region and even Kashmir valley are very much an integral part of Kashmiri society. After the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindu Pandits, the Sikhs of Kashmir are now the largest religious minority of Kashmir…

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Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban?

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Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban

Recent developments in the region forced India to rethink its approach to the armed group. Abdul Basit In a crucial policy shift, India recently acknowledged that it entered into backchannel communications with the Taliban in Afghanistan. In early June, the Indian media reported that New Delhi has started talking to certain factions and leaders of the armed group against the backdrop of the withdrawal of the United States forces from Afghanistan. A few days later, India’s Ministry of External Affairs all but confirmed these reports, stating that “we are in…

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Doctor; A Savior Or An Executioner

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Doctor; A Savior Or An Executioner

Medicines cure diseases but only Doctors Can Cure Patients -Karl Jung Aubaid Ahmed Akhoon To start from the word “doctor”, so he’s a person who can bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity, and as such the medical profession is an utterly respected profession. During this pandemic, the doctors have played heroic roles and have done a remarkable and outstanding job. We owe them big time and it’s pretty necessary to appreciate their work. As it is mentioned in our authentic books of ahadees as well Narrated Abu Hurairah:…

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Of innocent prisoners, lynching incidents, and Kashmir

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Of innocent prisoners, lynching incidents, and Kashmir

Though Kashmiris opined that their elected leaders should attend the talks with the Centre, they were also rather certain that nothing really would emerge from those talks Humra Quraishi For the last few hours, I have been reading this latest book on the situation of the prisoners. In fact, the very title of this book – ‘Innocent Prisoners. Begunah Qaidi. Stories of Muslim Youth Falsely Implicated In The 7/11 Train Blasts and Other Terror Cases’ – relays the stark reality of those sitting implicated and imprisoned. This book has been…

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How Delhi got its way in the J&K All-Party Meet

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How Delhi got its way in the J&K All Party Meet

Valley leadership would do well to ponder some questions, rather than seek answers and reassurances from the Centre. By – Haseeb A Drabu Even though convening the J&K All-Party Meet (APM) was a climbdown for the BJP and a compulsion of the Union government, it was conducted and concluded exactly the way they wanted it. It is a lesson in the realpolitik of how a tactical move — meeting leaders including former chief ministers and deputy chief ministers and prospective chief ministers — has been converted into a strategic initiative…

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‘Gupkar Gang’ to UP’s ‘Conversion Jihadis’, Featured news found new ‘Villain’ variants

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Shailaja Bajpai From ‘Pakistan Prem’ on Aaj Tak and India TV, and ‘Jihad zeher’ on Zee Hindustan, to India Today’s ‘Modi Hate Club’ and Republic TV’s ‘Toolkit Fake News’, there was no dearth of villains on TV news this week. Speaking of villains, can Rahul Gandhi ever be far behind? He added himself to the cast with his ‘political jabs on vaccination drive’ (CNN News18) and questions about the gap between vaccine doses, which so incensed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that its spokesperson Sambit Patra took a jibe at…

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