Kashmir : The Forgotten Conflict – Aljazeera Timeline of the Kashmir Conflict
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: Kashmir, Law Enforcement, Media, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Women Leave a commentAll that has been published in Aljazeera on the Kashmir Conflict.
Kashmir: The Pandit question – Aljazeera
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: Kashmir, Opinion, Politics, Religion | Tags: Exodus, Kashmir Conflict, Kashmiri Pandit Leave a commentThe story of Kashmiri Pandits is an extraordinarily difficult one to tell. One the one hand, when the insurgency erupted in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1989, thousands of Pandits left the valley, suggesting that the community suffered enough intimidation to abandon their homes. On the other hand, the accounts of Kashmiri Pandits who stayed behind in Kashmir contradict claims by Pandits in the diaspora who say that Kashmiri Pandits suffered ‘a genocide’ and were forced ‘into exile’.
Indeed, understanding the experience of the Pandits, caught between Kashmir’s Muslim majority and the ambitions of the Indian state, is an intricate affair.
Even the semantics describing the flight of the Pandits from Kashmir are highly politicised and contentious.
Azad Essa speaks to Mridu Rai, the author of Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir about the Kashmiri Pandit community and how they fit into the dispute.
Middle East Matters: The Ten Most Significant Developments of 2011 – Council on Foreign Relations
Posted: December 28, 2011 Filed under: Foreign Affairs, International, Opinion, Politics | Tags: 2011, Council on Foreign Relations, Middle East, U.S. foreign Policy Leave a commentHere it is: the first annual “Middle East Matters” year-end roundup listing the ten most significant Middle East developments of the year. As 2011 was such a tumultuous year in the region, almost any one of these items could have been deemed the most significant development in a “normal” year. So identifying significant developments is relatively easy. The hard part is winnowing down the events to just ten. Consistent with the blog’s theme of focusing on the interplay between U.S. foreign policy and the region, these were the items that were most significant from a U.S. foreign policy perspective. So in roughly chronological order are MEM’s top ten developments of 2011:
Kashmiris’ Pain Over Unmarked Graves – BBC
Posted: December 26, 2011 Filed under: Crime, Kashmir, Law Enforcement, Opinion, Politics, Women Leave a commentThousands of unmarked graves have been discovered in remote areas of Indian-administered Kashmir, a legacy of decades of conflict in the region. Now a government human rights body is calling on the Indian authorities to investigate the graves – to identify the dead and find out who killed them.
Khurram Parvez works for the Coalition of Civil Society, a human rights organisation which first drew attention to the unmarked graves and is demanding a full, impartial investigation.
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