An initiative by two important American Republican lawmakers to introduce a Bill in the US House of Representatives to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, just two days after the attack on an Indian Army base camp at Uri in Jammu & Kashmir on September 18, has done … Read More
The sudden resignation of Tariq Hamid Karra, MP (Srinagar-Budgam), from Parliament as also from the basic membership of the People’s Democratic Party, on September 15, has put the PDP-BJP coalition under strain. Karra was one of the founding members of the PDP and served as finance minister under Mufti Mohammad … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sharply escalated his measured references to Islamabad’s atrocities in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir by directing India’s representative to the UN to raise the human rights situation in those regions and indeed, across all of Pakistan, at the 33rd session of the United Nation Human … Read More
The unsurprising failure of the all-party delegation to Jammu & Kashmir on September 4-5 has had two immediate repercussions – a hardening of the Centre’s attitude towards the separatists who have long battened on the Indian exchequer, and an enraged Jammu province escalating its demand for separate Statehood. Berating the … Read More
Justice Jasti Chelameswar has struck a powerful blow against the poisonous legacy of the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case, 1993, which usurped the Executive’s power to appoint judges and replaced it with an opaque system of selection by dominant judges. By breaking the omerta code on this sham, … Read More
