Category: Opinion
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Justice, Finally
The end of the trial of Yasin Malik in the Terror Funding case and the NIA court sentencing him to life imprisonment is a good beginning of giving justice to the victims of terrorism in J&K. Lakhs of lives were affected and many youth died premature death by either getting involved in violence of becoming…
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Cowardly attacks
Fighters don’t show off their bravery by attacking unarmed policemen and their families more so when they are off duty and spending time with their families. The terrorists just did that when they attacked Sgt Cdt Saifullah Qadri on Srinagar outskirts this evening. Qadri breathed his last while being shifted to hospital while his seven…
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Unlikely row
Removal of the image of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the Police medals is not politics but part of the process of reconciling the laws and system of J&K with the rest of the country. So, those trying to raise a controversy about it are just seeking to make some trouble and desperate to kick up…
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Merchants of death
Desperation at their inability to revive violence in recent years has resulted in the Pakistani agents throwing a grenade in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk. They killed one and injured 24 Kashmiris, who were moving around for work and happily. The grenade blast scared the little children moving with mothers for life; it left a Kashmiri dead…
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Pak and terror
Pakistan has continued to remain on the list of countries that are targeted for censure and intense scrutiny by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for being non-compliant with global order to check the terror financing. The country has been on the grey list of the FATF since June 2018. The status has further jeopardized…
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Peshawar terrorist strike has many lessons for Pakistan
Jasbir Sarai On Friday, 04, March, a lone suicide bomber shot the police guards at the entrance of a packed Shia Mosque at Peshawar’s historic Qissa Khwani Bazar with a pistol. He then entered the Mosque and blew himself up in the middle of worshippers offering Friday prayers. At least 60 people were killed and close…
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Jammu got what it wanted – what next ?
Sahil Mahajan The second draft of the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir has sprung some surprises if it is viewed from the previous landscape of the Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies. Some changes were inevitable, as the status quo that existed until October 30, 2019 had to go. That did, as the changes announced on…
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Press freedom
Does the Press enjoy immunity from breaking the law? No it doesn’t. A media person is supposed to obey the law as much as any other professional and citizen of this country. So, each time a media person is accused of being on the wrong side of the law, why do some media bodies rise…
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Time to fine tune policies toward J&K, hold elections
By Sahil Mahajan Last week Union Home Minister Amit Shah while unveiling the district good governance index for all the districts in Jammu and Kashmir, something which happened for the first time , underscored that his promise of restoring the statehood to J&K is unshakeable , and so is the commitment to hold elections in…
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Road to have Jammu CM is long and tough
By Sahil Mahajan The road to have a Jammu chief minister after the Assembly elections, which, it appears might be held sometime in the summer of 2022, if not earlier, is long and riddled with unimaginable speed-breakers The chief minister’s position is not the one which comes with exchange offer. There is no exchange offer…