Category: Kashmir

Behind The Facade Of Modi’s ‘New Kashmir’

Narendra Modi’s grand plan to tame the restive province masks the barren indifference, injustice and violence of the Indian state toward citizens it has long considered alien. In early March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew to the airport here in the capital of the Himalayan state of Kashmir and made his way by convoy to a 30,000-seat stadium close […]

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Insurrection In The ‘Other’ Kashmir – Analysis

The violent uprising in Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), euphemistically called “Azad Jammu and Kashmir” by Pakistanis, has left Pakistan in shock and awe. The scale, spread, and ferocity of the insurrection took the Pakistani authorities by complete surprise. Efforts were made by Islamabad to impose an information blackout on PoJK—the internet was suspended, mainstream electronic mediacovered the widespread […]

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Al-Badr

Al-Badr is an Islamic militant group operating in the Jammu Kashmir region. The group was allegedly formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998. It is believed the group was encouraged by the ISI to operate independently from their previous umbrella group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM). Prior to the group’s separation from HM, they participated in the fighting in Afghanistan […]

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NIA raids 9 locations in Srinagar in case linked to terror activities

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday launched a widespread operation and raided at least nine locations across Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir as part of dismantling terror conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-backed terror outfits, including Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda within the country. Newly formed organisations, including The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir […]

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Kashmir’s Uncertain Future: Reactions To Supreme Court’s Article 370 Verdict – Analysis

On 5 August 2019, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah announced to the parliament that the President had signed a decree abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution, which had given the people of Indian-occupied Kashmir substantial autonomy. Shah, a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and one of the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), argued that Article 370 […]

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Azerbaijan: Aliyev’s Victory Lap Election – Analysis

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s choice of where to cast his vote said everything about why the country held an early presidential election Wednesday. Shortly after the polls opened on February 7, Aliyev’s press service released video of the president, along with his wife and children, casting their ballots in a grand, high-ceilinged hall in Xankendi, known as Stepanakert in Armenian, […]

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The “Postcolonial” Colonization of Kashmir

In a new book, historian Hafsa Kanjwal charts India’s decades-long consolidation of power in the occupied region. In July 2019, short months after India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a second term in office, 10,000 Indian soldiers arrived in Kashmir—the Muslim-majority region that India has occupied since 1947. The deployment of additional troops was accompanied by the suspension […]

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Pakistani And Kashmiri Leaders On Israel-Hamas War: ‘The One-Point Agenda Of Kashmiris Is The Liberation Of Kashmir; After Palestine, This Will Have To Be Carried Out In Kashmir’; ‘That Day Is Not Far When The Roads To Gaza Will Open And The People’s Armies Will Stand Alongside The Mujahideen Of Gaza’

Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel, political parties and religious organizations have been organizing anti-Israel conferences and rallies in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu & Kashmir at which speakers stress that the issues of Kashmir and Palestine resemble one another, and Kashmiris should learn from the October 7 attack. “The One-Point Agenda Of Kashmiris Is The Liberation […]

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The Permanence Of Chaos In Kashmir – Analysis

Official claims about the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), especially since the August 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, portray a vastly improved scenario. The Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai has said that terrorist incidents have significantly reduced owing to the government’s “well-coordinated and multi-pronged strategy.” The infiltration of terrorists from […]

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Role Of Local Cadres In Militancy In Kashmir: Patterns And Trends – Analysis

In November 2022, a media report quoted unidentified Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) government sources to claim that five of Kashmir division’s ten districts—Kupwara, Ganderbal, Bandipora, Baramulla, and Anantnag have reported zero recruitment of local youths in terror outfits in 2022. The conclusion of the seven-day encounter in Gadole forests of Anantnag which resulted in the killing of four security force […]

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