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Creating a Welcome space for Pandits

Perhaps the most telling response from the Chief Minister was to the inquiry about granting Minority status to Kashmiri Pandits. He refused consideration based on the fact that Pandits are Hindus and no different from other Hindus in the State.....

Author : Dr. Vijay K Sazawal More

Pakistanization of Kashmir

The latest identity crisis in Pakistan is a culmination of 60 years of misgovernance by civil and military authorities bound by a common suspicion that India is their only real enemy.

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The Boiled Frog

The slow erosion of plurality, secularism and shrinking political and economic space for the disfranchised has created the situation that exists in Pakistan today. It may sound far-fetched today, but Kashmir is slowly but surely headed the same way...

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An Imperfect Storm: The Summer 2008 Uprising in Kashmir

Unlike the sustained uprising in Kashmir in 1990 which was mostly orchestrated by Pakistani trained operatives, the uprising in the summer of 2008 was mostly indigenous, spontaneous and massive. Yet it began and died after ten days of bloody upheaval under rather strange circumstances. What prevented the latest insurgency from becoming a ?perfect storm?? The author conducts a post-mortem of the uprising.

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The Politics of 123

No recent situation has led to a deeper chasm among Indian-Americans than the recently concluded bilateral agreement on the U.S.-India nuclear deal initialed by the two countries on July 20, 2007. The situation is exacerbated by lingering spite in the Indian Parliament where unlikely allies are joining hands in supporting or denouncing the deal. Unfortunately, a lot of what is being said is just plain demagoguery.

Author : Vijay K. Sazawal More

Political Update: Kashmir

There is always politics in the air where the State of Jammu and Kashmir (Kashmir for short) is concerned. But certain recent events have put a new spin on the old game of what is brewing next in Kashmir.

Author : Vijay K. Sazawal More

So you do not want to return permanently to Kashmir, what's next?

Based on past trends borne by the history, it is easy to assume that most Pandits that left the valley in 1989, and thereafter, will not return to the valley for permanent resettlement. There will be exceptions, but that is the extent of the return, not withstanding various grandiose declarations by the government officials or politicians, who too know (and have expressed such views in private) that very few, if any, Pandits will ever return for good.

Author : Vijay K. Sazawal More