Resolution of the Kashmir Issue is the Only Way to Prevent a Nuclear Arms Race in S Asia

India, Pakistan, Kashmir and Arms Race by Dr Syed Ghulam Nabi Fa ‘The Christian Science Monitor’ in its column on April 25, 2012 said it all by emphasizing that “Ritual Aggression: India and Pakistan’s missile tests, following peace talks.” We know that both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers.  Both have now tested intercontinental ballistic [...]

How many more soldiers need to die before India and Pakistan create a Siachen Glaciar demilitarised zone?

Some of the harshest weather conditions in the world may be experienced on the Siachen Glaciers and it is this very location that two of the bitterest enemies of the region maintain bases. The Siachen Glaciers are the highest glaciers on earth and some of the bases are situated at over 6,000 metres. A result [...]

Mansoor Ijaz Had Advised Benazir Bhutto to Divorce Zardari

Efforts at resolving Kashmir have often involved people who never exist in public imagination, and they are used to achieve informally what is impossible or difficult to defend publically for the governments. Iftikhar Gilani profiles the role Mansoor Ijaz, who is at the center of a controversy in Pakistan, may have played during the NDA [...]

India’s Violations of the Indus Water Treaty Analyzed

The article III of the Indus Water Treaty, binds the Government of India not to hinder the flow of the western rivers, i.e. Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, to Pakistan, and India cannot store any water or construct any storage works, on the above cited rivers, having been given total rights since March 1973,of Ravi, Beas [...]

Fishermen on Both Sides of the Pak-India Maritime Borders are treated as prisoners of war — A Story of Tears…

By Qurat Mirza “We are the prisoners of war… Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on trouble seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never be happy enough. Our dreams are never big enough. Our lives are never important enough, to [...]

‘Imran Grew Up Hating India’

Imran Khan said he grew up “hating India” due to the bloodshed and violence associated with the Partition but his views changed after he toured India to play cricket.  “I grew up hating India because I grew up in Lahoreand there was so much…the massacres of 1947, so much bloodshed and anger. “But as I [...]

POWs from the 1971 War

By Brian McMahon I write, from Canberra, Australia, as a concerned former Indian national, of the continuing plight of prisoners of war from 1971 of both India and Pakistan and their bewildered families. The Australians, by contrast, to their great credit, have brought home to Australia the remains of every one of their servicemen missing in [...]

Is Sarabjit Singh a RAW Agent or Innocent?

Sarabjit Singh, the son of Sulakhan Singh, a farmer by profession, was a resident of Bhikhiwind village, five miles from the Pakistani border and 45 kilometers fromAmritsar,Punjab,India. He had illegally crossed the Indian border at Qasoor, the border city ofPunjab,Pakistan, in the late hours of August 29 and 30, 1990, in a drunken condition. In [...]

Hina Rabbani Khar Denies Army ISI Role in Foreign Policy Making

by Shehrbano Taseer The surname of 33-year-old Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar usually walks into the room before she does. She is the niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a colorful former chief minister and governor of thePunjaband one of the founding members of the PPP, to which she now belongs. “He is essentially the whole [...]

The Goody Joint Statement Probably Drafted by Diplomats and Not Much of What it Contains Was Discussed in the Meeing

Pakistan and India expressed satisfaction with the talks their foreign ministers held here on July 27, 2011, according to a joint statement. The statement said the talks were held in a candid, cordial and constructive atmosphere. The text follows: Both the foreign ministers reviewed the status of bilateral relations and expressed satisfaction on the holding [...]