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 [...]

Dr Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai’s Statement in the Alexandria Court House, Virginia, USA

Kashmir, my dream, which cannot be forsaken I fight a worthy fight – Freedom for Kashmir The Kashmir question is one of the oldest unresolved international problems in the world. The experience of six decades has shown that it will not go away and that an effort is urgently required to resolve it on a [...]

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 [...]

Indian Army’s Defense of AFSPA is Undemocratic

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) is a subject of severe criticism by human rights activists and jurists in Indiaand across the world. The alarming number of human rights abuses committed by the security agencies deployed in regions where AFSPA is currently put to use is depressing proof to the draconian nature of [...]

Why Does Not India Honor the UN Security Council Resolutions Aug 13/ 48 & Jan 5/ 49

October 27th – Kashmir’s Day of Occupation It is about time that the international community comes forward and demand India to allow a free and impartial referendum which will grant the people ofKashmirtheir inalienable right of self-determination. All those who believe in an inclusive, pluralistic global village that recognizes spaces for individual expression must seize [...]

Kashmiri American Council Was Simply Lobbying, Like 2500 Other Agents

History also tells us that the covert capabilities of the CIA, like those of the intelligence services of other powers, both great and small, have often been used to influence public opinion and events in sovereign foreign countries. The use of such means is usually extolled or excoriated according to one’s appreciation of the ends to [...]

How the Kashmir Dispute Can be Resolved?

The Prospects of Peace in Kashmir I am confident that all of us are aware that there are multiple ways by which we can resolve conflicts.  The most pragmatic being through dialogue and negotiations, whether that be through the auspices of Track I [official dialogue with state representatives] or Track II Negotiations, which are considered to [...]

Statement of Dr. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in New York

Chairman, All Parties Hurriyet Conference Before OIC Annual Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers The United Nations New York September 23, 2011 It is truly a great honor for me to address this annual meeting of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, especially in this volatile world of ours, and to share with you the [...]

Why Nobel Prize Committee Ignores Kashmir?

Having just spent some days in Kashmir, in the part of the territory run by India, I am struck that there has never been serious consideration of dishing out a prize for anyone trying to solve the troubles there. No one should doubt thatKashmirsuffers grim problems, of two broad sorts. First is the disputed status [...]

Syed Gilani Talks About the Rights of Pakistani Kashmiris with Hina R Khar

For all ofNew Delhi’s unhappiness over Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar hosting Hurriyat leaders during her visit, the interaction might have offeredIslamabadgreater cause for concern. The spearhead of Kashmiri secession, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, left Khar and her delegates a little stumped by demanding, for the first time, that the self-determination exercise should include [...]