Tag: Kashmir issue

India regrets Kashmir issue being raised at UNHRC

"Terrorism is the biggest scourge and greatest violator of human rights and we hope that you will address it more emphatically in the coming years," Rajiv K. Chander, India's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, told Michelle Bachelet, the new UN Human Rights High Commissioner, the HRC meeting on September 10 in Geneva.

September 12, 2018

India and Pakistan clash at United Nations on Kashmir

At the UN Security Council open debate on ‘Mediation and the Settlement of Disputes’, New Delhi takes exception to Islamabad raising the Kashmir issue, asks the new government in Pakistan to work constructively to build a safe and terror-free South Asia rather than indulging in polemics

August 30, 2018

An unnerving crease

Cricket Captain Imran Khan has now become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. It is a watershed event in his personal career and also in the country’s history. This is the third consecutive democratic government in Pakistan. The cricketer-turned-politician had been struggling for a while to become the Prime Minister. His ambition has now been fulfilled. …

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August 29, 2018

Mr Khan’s agenda

Rather than hi-falutin platitudes, as is the wont of those at the helm of governance, Imran Khan’s signal of intent, as articulated 24 hours after being sworn in as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, is a critical presentation on austerity in a stuttering economy. He has moved on to bread-and-butter issues in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s …

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August 22, 2018

Farooq Abdullah seeks serious political initiative to resolve Kashmir issue

Seeking a serious political initiative to resolve the Kashmir issue, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday told Home Minister Rajnath Singh that “unabated civilian killings” risked pushing Jammu and Kashmir to a “dangerous precipice of turmoil and instability”. Abdullah, who met Singh here and apprised him about the “grim situation” in the Valley, said …

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April 6, 2018

Why and wherefore of North-east conflicts

The story of insurgencies is told through riveting testimonies of underground leaders, with rare insights into the psychology, history and economy of this conflict zone... A review

April 1, 2018

Pakistan raises Kashmir in UNSC, asks for review of 1948 resolution

Pakistan has brought up the Kashmir issue in the Security Council, accusing it of “selective implementation” of its resolutions. “Nothing undermines the credibility of the Council more than the selective implementation of its resolutions,” Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi said on Tuesday during a session on its working methods. “The Council should therefore periodically review …

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February 7, 2018

Centre’s Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma to arrive in J&K

Dineshwar Sharma, the Centre’s Special Representative on Jammu and Kashmir, is arriving here on Friday on a six-day visit to the state in an effort to pave the way for a sustained dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue. Sharma will remain in Jammu till Sunday after which he will leave for the Kashmir Valley, officials …

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November 24, 2017

Jaitley criticizes Chidambaram’s remarks on autonomy for Kashmir

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday lashed at former union minister P Chidambaram for his remarks on granting more autonomy to Kashmir and said this reveals the immaturity of Congress party in understanding the gravity of the issues. Addressing media persons, Jaitley said after the independence, Kashmir has remained as unfinished agenda of Pakistan under which …

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October 29, 2017

Need to change discourse around J-K: Jitendra Singh

  There is need to “change the discourse” around Jammu and Kashmir as there is no such thing as the Kashmir issue, Union minister Jitendra Singh has said, stressing that the only “point of debate” is retrieving Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office said this after paying a …

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September 27, 2017

Unending infamy

In terms of direct firepower there is no comparison between the 155 mm Bofors field howitzer and the “non-lethal” pellet-guns of Kashmir infamy, but the political back blast of both is as devastating as it is unending. Every now and then kickbacks in the Swedish gun deal ~ which caused the ouster of the Rajiv …

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September 16, 2017

India slams OIC for comments on Kashmir issue at the UN

India on Friday hit back at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN, saying the grouping has no locus standi to comment on its internal affairs. In a strong reaction to a statement made by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC at the UN, India said Jammu …

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September 16, 2017

Ready to talk to everyone in Kashmir: Rajnath Singh

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that while the government was ready to discuss the Jammu and Kashmir issue with all stakeholders, he would talk to anyone who comes to meet him during his visit to the state. “I personally want that we talk to everyone. So whoever comes to meet me, I will …

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September 8, 2017

Suu Kyi likens Rohingya issue to Kashmir

Facing the problem of Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday likened the issue to Kashmir and said that there is the trouble of sifting terrorists from innocent citizens. Suu Kyi told the media here that there was a need to differentiate between terrorists and innocent people and India was well …

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September 7, 2017

Kashmir, political killings of RSS workers discussed at Vrindavan meet

Political killings of its workers in Kerala and West Bengal and the central government’s efforts to normalise the situation in Kashmir figured prominently during the first day of the Coordination Meeting of the RSS in Vrindavan. “The sad state of affairs in West Bengal and Kerala was highlighted which most people don’t have the courage …

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September 2, 2017

The Pakistan obsession

There have been many changes in India during the 70 years since Independence. Our efforts to develop a liberal, open, pluralistic democracy have relapsed into traditional Hindu obscurantism, characterised by casteism, communalism and bigotry. Our politics changed from initial idealism to one of mere opportunism and money-grabbing entrepreneurship. Our economy flirted with pseudo-socialism before reverting …

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August 22, 2017

Regional peace linked to resolution of Kashmir issue: Pakistan

Pakistan said that regional peace and progress was directly linked to the resolution of all outstanding matters, including the “core issue” of Jammu and Kashmir. This was stated at the first National Security Committee (NSC) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during which the internal and external security situation along with the foreign …

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August 17, 2017