The writer is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. He is a political economist Narendra Modi was sworn in on the 26th of May as the 15th Prime Minister of India, and Bharatia Janata Party’s (BJP) Hindu nationalist philosophy unveiled itself within days. It seems that Modi has different ‘aspirations’ to those of his predecessors: to capitalize all of Kashmir and bury it under the dreams of an extremist Hindu nationalist…
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The writer is a political economist and a television anchorperson This article must be read as follow up of “Kashmir, Lines Drawn with Blood” printed in The Nation on February 6, 2011. Narendra Modi has deliberately escalated the Line of Control and Working Boundary in Kashmir. India, an imperial state by nature has extended this heat to China by building a road along the Tibetan Border. The roots of this forward policy lie in Hindutva…
MUZAFFARABAD: The federal government has posted retired Squadron Leader Abid Ali Khan as the new chief secretary of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Mr Khan, who was recently appointed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government as secretary sports and culture from his earlier assignment as commissioner Hazara division, has replaced Khizar Hayat Gondal, who was posted as AJK’s chief secretary in July last year. He has now been posted as federal secretary. The AJK Services and…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2014. GILGIT: As the tenure of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government draws to a close, the fate of the Local Government Bill 2014 hangs in the balance. The bill was passed unanimously by the G-B legislative assembly on August 18, but has yet to reach the governor’s office where it will be signed by the governor and made into a law. “The bill hasn’t yet reached us,”…