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Issue 30 – Fall 2019
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America Has a New Strategy in Afghanistan, But It Isn’t Actually Very New0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 21, 2019
By Michael Kugelman September 17, 2019 On September 7, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly called off his government’s talks with the Taliban—even though the two sides were on the cusp of a U.S. troop withdrawal deal. With talks off (for now), the Trump administration has vowed to intensify its fight against the Taliban, with the
READ MOREChutzpah in Kashmir; Muscular approach to handle Kashmir destined to fail1
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 20, 2019
by Prof. M. A. Sofi 20 September 2019 Following the farce enacted in the parliament involving the repeal of article 370 through what has been the most daring and ignoble subversion yet of the Indian constitution on Aug.5th, it can’t get more dehumanizing than what the people of Kashmir have been made to go through
READ MOREIt ain’t necessarily over in Afghanistan0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 20, 2019
This rupture gives all stakeholders a chance to come together and build a revised peace process around a new structure, writes William Milam by William Milam September 20, 2019 I wrote a fortnight ago about the dangers of negotiating with the Afghan Taliban, in the context of the news that the US and the Taliban
READ MOREBangladesh does an about-face on the Rohingya0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 19, 2019
“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.” ~Pope Francis by Sabria Chowdhury Balland 19 September 2019 Two years ago, Bangladesh took in nearly 750,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees who were expelled from Myanmar due to a military crackdown. These attacks were referred to as ethnic cleansing by the United States whereas United
READ MOREMaldives: ‘Designation’ brings US ‘terror-war’ closer?0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 13, 2019
By ‘designating’ Mohamed Ameen a ‘key leader for ISIS’, Washington may have taken the ‘global war on terror’ to the southern Indian Ocean neighbourhood. N Sathiya Moorthy 13 September 2019 By ‘designating’ 35-year-old Maldivian Mohamed Ameen a ‘key leader for ISIS’, Washington may have taken the all-but-forgotten US-led ‘global war on terror’ to the southern Indian Ocean
READ MOREModi’s India vs Hitler’s Reich1
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 10, 2019
By B Z Khasru The partition of India in 1947 by Britain to create two independent countries wreaked havoc in human lives and caused miseries. It killed two million people, according to various estimates, and displaced 14 million. Its legacy, the two siblings of the midnight— nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, which have fought three major
READ MOREKashmir: The Aftermath of Abrogation of Article 3700
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 8, 2019
Ishfaq Majid and Varinder Singh 8 September 2019 In 1949, a special provision was added to India’s constitution providing autonomy to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The article was allowing the state to have its own constitution, a separate flag, and independence over all matters except foreign affairs, defence, and communications. Another provision later
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Counting to Segregate: Behind Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC)0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 6, 2019
On 31 August, India released the final iteration of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list of “genuine Indian citizens” that is being updated on order of the Supreme Court. The final version, which comes after two preliminary drafts published in 2017 and 2018, identified close to 1.9 million as “illegal immigrants”. The second
READ MORECalling Nuclear Bluff on Balakot: India’s ‘Choreographed’ Corporal Punishment to Pakistan0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 2, 2019
By Adnan Qaiser September 2019 While the history of South Asia is written in blood; it is also inked in phony prides and misplaced jingoism. At predawn on 26 February 2019, India carried out its second surgical strike in Pakistan.[1] The attack, similar to the one India had conducted on 29 September 2016,[2] struck Pakistan
READ MOREKartarpur Corridor: Undoing Historical Wrong0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- September 1, 2019
by Rushali Saha 1 September 2019 The recent statement by Pakistan that it is committed to complete the Kartarpur Corridor despite tense ties with India is a welcome move. Although it might be intended to paint India’s international image as the aggressor and Pakistan as the patron of peace in the region, India should not
READ MOREThe Kashmiri narrative0
- Blog, Featured, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- August 29, 2019
Columbia Journalism Review by Rozina Ali August 28, 2019 In mid-February, a young man named Adil Ahmed Dar killed 44 Indian paramilitary officers in a suicide bombing in Kashmir’s Pulwama district. It was the deadliest attack against Indian soldiers in three decades. Dar was from a local village, but the militant group that claimed responsibility
READ MOREDangerous Speech in Real Time: Social Media, Policing, and Communal Violence0
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- August 27, 2019
The article examines how a set of key actors—the police, civil society and social media platforms responded to a series of violent incidents in Pune in 2014 that resulted in the death of Mohsin Sheikh. The hate speech by the Hindu Rashtra Sena leaders; the murder of Sheikh; violence and arson against Muslims; the circulation
READ MOREGuilty Men of the Two-nation theory: A Hindu nationalist project borrowed by Jinnah1
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- August 26, 2019
by Shamsul Islam 26 August 2019 FOREWORD After the recent [May 2, 2018] attack on Aligarh Muslim University by the Hindutva hoodlums sponsored by RSS/BJP leaders on the issue of Jinnah, the Two-nation theory is once again centre of a fierce debate. The Hindutva gang is using the issue of a photo of MA Jinnah
READ MOREDoes an Ambiguous Indian Nuclear Stance Benefit Anyone?1
- Commentary, Issue 30 – Fall 2019
- August 26, 2019
by M Waqas Jan 26 August 2019 The recent escalation in India-Pakistan tensions resulting from the deteriorating human rights situation in Kashmir has since its outset carried the threat of spiraling into the realm of the nuclear question. With both India and Pakistan having already fought three full-fledged wars and a series of medium to
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