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This article glorifies the Indian Army and its heroes, but it also describes under which conditions soldiers live at an altitude of 5,000 meters – also true for Pakistanis on the other side of the cease-fire line, also known as the Line of Control dividing Kashmir.
Because of the strategy of (...)
Pakistan - India: How many more deaths will it take till you take note - Keep nationalism aside and then look at the Siachen issue (PIPFPD statement)
Press Statement
Pakistan - India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy
February 5, 2016
“How many deaths will it take till we know, that too (...)
If the US pressure brought it about, the curious reality is that only Left parties in India will back Modi’s path of normalisation wth Pakistan. What next?
The controversy over the untimely, intemperate remarks by a top functionary of the Bharatiya Janta Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak (...)
Barely two weeks after a major earthquake which killed more than 8,000 people, Nepal suffered a powerful aftershock, adding to its misery and killing over 100 people. More than 3.5 million people are still in need of food assistance; 479,000 houses have been destroyed and 263,000 damaged; and (...)
It’s humanly impossible not to be revolted by the killing of 134 innocent children in Peshawar by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and not to feel a surge of empathy with Pakistani citizens. This barbaric attack galvanised unprecedented solidarity demonstrations and vigils in South Asian cities. (...)
India can make this a unique moment for South Asia too by reaching out to Pakistan with earnest proposals for cooperation—whether in fighting terrorism, aggressively promoting trade, or stabilising Afghanistan. This entails a sea-change in the official mindset—from regarding Pakistan as an enemy (...)
In the South Asian region, the arms race is already accelerating at an ugly scale.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election manifesto amply exhibits that the party has chosen an aggressive stance on the use of nuclear weapons. In the event it is voted to power, the BJP-led government would (...)
In Kashmir, the scale of human rights violations—from collective punishment and assassinations, to custodial deaths and disappearances—is staggering. Yet little of what goes on in that Himalayan region reaches the outside. Those who resist Indian rule, the Indian government tells the world, are (...)
Indian prime minister Manomohan Singh’s recent visit to Bangladesh has triggered myriad speculations concerning the meaning of intensified geopolitical alliance between India and Bangladesh in South Asian region. Given the temporality of parliamentary politics that is hegemonic in (...)
What kind of state are we, anyway? Prickly and immature, submitting to our worst, controlling impulses? Or tolerant, stable, modern? Here’s a worrying story: On October 21 a few people made a few speeches in New Delhi; some may have said that Kashmir should not be a part of India. The (...)
The dialogue on Kashmir between the Indian and Pakistani governments goes round and round like an old record stuck in a groove, with the same old arguments repeated by both sides. Is there a way forward?
The bloodshed in Kashmir beginning in June this year gave rise to a heated debate in India (...)
STATEMENT BY ARUNDHATI ROY
I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have (...)
Condemn strongly fascist designs of the Indian government to silence voices of dissent!
Condemn strongly the move to put Arundhati Roy and Syed Ali Shah Geelani under charges of sedition!
26/10/10
Ever since the historic convention in Delhi titled “Azadi: The Only Way” organised by the CRPP, (...)
Dear Friends,
I was present and speaking a few hours ago at a meeting titled ‘Azadi: The Only Way’ on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, organized by the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners at the Little Theatre Group in Delhi yesterday (21st October). I was not present from the (...)
Kashmir today has turned a torturous prison for its people where the right to life is a mirage. Mourning is a luxury which common masses cannot afford. Everyone in the beautiful Valley is condemned, whose turn for being murdered could come anytime, anywhere. Ironically, the murderer is a (...)
Dear Friend, We would request you to endorse the following appeal to be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, India on the plight of the Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal and India. It may be recalled that more than 25 % of the Bhutanese citizens are languishing (...)
September 11, 2001, was to figure once again in a major way in the India-Pakistan-US discourse. It was the Mumbai terrorist strike of November 26, 2008, that came as a reminder of the Twin Towers tragedy to those interested in making the comparison and the connection.
The tragedy of September (...)
A water war looms in the Indus River basin
Kashmir has for decades been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan over which the two countries have fought wars. Now, with both sides desperate for more water from population and industrialization pressures, hydroelectric projects on either (...)
The CPI(ML) condemns the police firing on the ongoing people’s movement in Kashmir. The people are on the streets again in Kashmir against the rape and murder of two young women in Shopian, Kashmir. The rape, murder and subsequent repression has once again exposed the empty boasts of the NC and (...)
As curtains come down on the mega show of parliamentary elections in the “world’s largest democracy”, nobody knows which particular khichdi or combination of parties will finally make it to the seat of power through what type of realignments and murky post-poll deals. What is almost certain, (...)
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