Kashmir between Realpolitik and International Law: The Unfulfilled Promise of 1947
Amir Mushtaq The Kashmir dispute represents a continuing tension between international law and realpolitik. While international law is grounded in…
Bigwigs behind Kashmir skullduggery
Nisar Ahmed Thakur October occupies a particularly significant place in Kashmir’s chequered history, marked by incidents of betrayal, deceit and…
Anti-Muslim Hatred and the Occupation of Kashmir
Usama Imtiaz When a Kashmiri is branded a terrorist simply for being Kashmiri, it reveals a disturbing reality: a people…
Kashmir’s Half-Widows: Suspended Between Hope and Loss
Asma Misbah In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), thousands of women live with a loss that never reaches…
The Case India Brought: From Security Council Referral to the Plebiscite Pledge
Muhammad Waleed Akhtar “And covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at…
27 October: The Plebiscite, the Voter Register and Kashmir’s Future
Zainab Noor Indian occupation forces reached Srinagar on October 27, 1947. On the same day, Governor-General Lord Mountbatten stated that…
Uniform sermons: An attempt to bring Mosque Pulpits under state control
By Nisar Ahmed Thakur “It is important to recognise that the proposal to introduce a common theme for Friday sermons…
Weaponizing Water in South Asia: India’s Hydro-Coercive Strategy and the Indus Waters Treaty
Soma Aslam The contemporary architecture of India is increasingly defined by a dangerous intersection of hindutva ideology, militarized geopolitical posturing,…
The Judicialization of Repression: Silencing Dissent in Occupied Kashmir
Altaf Hussain Wani The refusal to grant bail to veteran Kashmir leader Shabbir Ahmad Shah in a case dating back…
The Women the World Has Forgotten: Kashmir’s Half Widows
By Zainab Noor Nearly every family in the Dardpora village of Kupwara district of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir…