By Rafique Khan Kashmir Diary, Summer 1994, Volume 3 Number 1 Demonstrators in both Islamabad and New Delhi wave different banners and say different words but the message is the same. From the Pakistani side the slogan is “Kashmir Banega Pakistan”, (Translation: “Kashmir will become Pakistan”). The Indians declare “Kashmir Bharat Ka Atoot Ang” (“Kashmir… Continue Reading
Need For A Better System of Protest: By Usmaan Raheem Ahmad (Kashmir Diary Vol IX 1997-1998) Protest is the most important tool at the hands of the movement. It has been a long time since we have seen the massive protests of 1990 which were so effective in attracting sympathy for the Kashmir cause. India’s… Continue Reading
February 20, 20 The following article was first published in Kashmir Narrator (Volume 4 No.5 August 20th 2018) is a book review of Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative by Khalid Bashir Ahmad. Publisher: Sage Publications, India Private Ltd 2017 The Kashmiri peoples’ political struggle, a demand for responsive and accountable government from an… Continue Reading
On October 22nd, 2019, the US Congress House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia held a hearing on South Asia human rights. Kashmir was the focus of this hearing. Expert witnesses were called to testify. Dr. Nitasha Kaul, Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster was a witness.… Continue Reading
Every year since 1984, the 11th day of February in Kashmir is a day of protest strikes. Each year more mythology is added and the legend of Maqbool Butt expands. Maqbool Butt, founder of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was jailed for half his adult life by authorities in India, in Pakistan and in Kashmir,… Continue Reading
Recently a high-ranking police officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, was arrested with three militants in his car. Singh was en route from Kashmir to Delhi. Why was Davinder helping terrorists come to Delhi on the eve of Republic Day? Was it for money (Rs. 12 lakh, as per the authorities)? There is a government… Continue Reading
Kashmir Diary Volume 2, 1993 In a recent publication multi-authored book PAKISTAN: 1992, Westview Press (page 157), Professor Robert G. Wirsing observed “Pakistani arguments that seek to satisfy this demand (interests of India and Pakistan to the exclusion of interest of the Kashmiri) by monotonous invocation of the UN’s original resolution in regard to a… Continue Reading
By Rafique Khan Rukhsana, a Kashmiri female from Sopore, identified the last hideout of Kashmiri militants for the Indian military on July 14, 1994; five militants and their leader were killed. Thus ended the two year old sway held by the Kashmiri militants on Sopore. Another chapter ended, and a new one began, in the… Continue Reading
The Los Angeles Kashmiri American community participated and presented a paper at the conference in 2002 hosted by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Burkle Institute. The title of the conference was Kashmir: Ways to Help Resolve One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Conflicts. Stanley Wolpert, professor of history at UCLA and a renowned expert… Continue Reading
This is an article from Kashmir Diary, published in Volume 1 Number 3 (Spring 1992). We have both reprinted the original article in images and replicated the text, below. HATOO TO HATHAZ Kashmiris in Search of Self-Determination For most Kashmiris, panacea for self-determination is to implement United Nations 1949 resolutions calling for a plebiscite in… Continue Reading