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, by ROUSSET Pierre
This article attempts to take stock of the recent ‘hot’ crisis between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Many factors need to be taken into account. Recent events are undoubtedly part of a long history of military tensions and wars dating back to the disastrous partition imposed on the (…)
, by DHAR Sushovan, SULEHRIA Farooq
The armed conflict between India and Pakistan posed a significant threat to the subcontinent. This would have been a war that no country can afford. On May 10, US president Donald Trump reportedly brokered an initial cease-fire between both sides.
This announcement was followed by a meeting of (…)
, by KAY Oreesh
A cease-fire deal pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of conflict, but the danger hasn’t gone away. The ongoing denial of democratic rights in Kashmir ensures that the region will remain a source of instability and potential conflict.
A fragile peace was reached on May 10 between (…)
, by Feminists from India and Pakistan
We, feminists from India and Pakistan, unequivocally welcome the ceasefire declared by our two nations today. The tension and escalation of the last fortnight remind us of how fragile peace is. The ceasefire is also a vindication of calls for de-escalation and peace by lakhs of ordinary people (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
On the morning of 7th May, when I answered my doorbell and went outside looking for who rang, my neighbor loudly asked me to turn off all my lights. This command signaled to me that we are living in a moment of war.
Farooq Tariq Living near the Wahgha border [Wagah is the only land border (…)
, by Alternative Viewpoint (IN), Haqooq Khalq Party, JKAWP, Radical Socialist (India)
We present below a selection of local progressive statements on the explosive situation between India and Pakistan regarding Kashmir. In the face of escalating military tensions and nationalist rhetoric on both sides, we offer a space for alternative perspectives that place human rights, (…)
, by JKAWP
The Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP) expresses grave concern over the recent escalation of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly the horrific fundamentalist attack on civilians in Pahalgam, Indian-occupied Kashmir. We strongly condemn this brutal act and mourn the loss of innocent (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch.
All this is an (…)
, by Alternative Viewpoint (IN)
“The governments of India and Pakistan must cease all forms of armed hostilities immediately. We call upon the working people of both countries to reject the war hysteria and militarism and raise their voices for peace, solidarity and unity. Only popular pressure from below can compel the two (…)
, by Haqooq Khalq Party
Haqooq e Khalq party (HKP) strongly condemns the missile strikes launched by India across nine locations in Pakistan, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.
We decry the loss of innocent lives in this deadly and dangerous escalation in hostilities and call upon both states to exercise (…)
, by Journalists, intellectuals and peace activists from South Asia
Islamabad-New Delhi:
While condemning terrorists’ killing of innocent Indian citizens in Pahalgam, some of the leading journalists, intellectuals and peace activists from the subcontinent have called for fair and credible investigation to fix the responsibility and called for de-escalation of (…)
, by HAQ Fazlul
On April 24, 2025, the government of India announced that it would downgrade diplomatic ties with its neighbor Pakistan over an attack by militants in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. As part of that cooling of relations, India said it would immediately suspend the Indus Waters Treaty – a (…)
, by AZAD Arif
Bapsi Sidhwa, who died aged 86 in Houston, Texas on 25 December 2024, was Pakistan’s pioneering woman fiction writer in English who rose to regional and global fame, blazing a trail which was followed by women writers who came after her. As a member of a microscopic and invisible community, she (…)
, by ROB Ramisa, UYANGODA Jayadeva
As we approach a month of Sheikh Hasina’s fall in Bangladesh, Dr Jayadeva Uyangoda, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, speaks to Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star regarding the parallels with Sri Lanka’s democratic movement in 2022, and the lessons to (…)
, by ATHAR Mohammad Ebad , BHAN Mona
RISING TEMPERATURES, EXPERTS argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for (…)
, by DUTRA Israel, TARIQ Farooq
Interview on the political situation in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India given, the 30 August 2024, by Farooq Tariq to the Brazilian magazine Revista Movimento.
Though it is one of the most dynamic regions of world capitalism, the Brazilian public knows little about South Asia. But the recent (…)
, by WEDAGEDARA Amali
Debt payments of developing countries exceed their national revenue. According to a new report, Resolving The Worst Ever Global Debt Crisis, 118 developing countries are experiencing debt distress, with a disproportionate share of their national revenue directed towards debt servicing in 2024 (…)
, by FOWLE Alice
Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated while red alerts issued for unrelenting heat across north-western India and Pakistan.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, an area of low pressure over the east-central Bay of Bengal intensified, and has been named Cyclone Remal.
Cyclone (…)
, by PURKAYASTHA Sharmila
‘For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit’, an anthology of prison poems, testifies to the coercive nature of the state and society – yet its under-representation of regional poets speaks of wider exclusions
My dangerous personality That you do not understand: The secret is poetry.
– ‘Poetry’ by (…)
, by Himal Southasian
A selection of Himal’s most-read articles on Southasian politics of the year
From political instability in Pakistan and Bangladesh and the economic crisis still devastating Sri Lanka to months of violence and ethnic conflict in Manipur and much more – 2023 has been yet another turbulent year (…)
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