Features

174 articles

Memories and Cravings

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 4 min read

(Kashmir Paradise called Dispute. By: Shyam Kaul. Published by O.M Publications, 2783 Bhagat Singh Lane, Pahar Gunj, New Delhi Price: Rs 600). During the past f...

Let's draw some lessons

Ejaz Haider Following · Mar 11, 2004 · 6 min read

No matter how a programme is run, it needs its own internal organisational and decision-making integrity By Ejaz Haider Following charges of proliferation again...

'Peace and its discontents'

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 6 min read

Dr Ayesha Siddiqa Peace per se will not resolve issues of political stability and economic boom Will peace between India and Pakistan result in politico-economi...

Centres of excellence for horticulture

Jagdish Jamwal The · Mar 11, 2004 · 6 min read

By Jagdish Jamwal The interest is developing amongst the beneficiaries for Horticulture Technology Mission. There are telephone calls and enquiries by word of m...

No development in the Gaza Strip, only devastation

Raji Sourani The · Mar 11, 2004 · 5 min read

By Raji Sourani The interdependent and inextricable link between human rights and development is no more evident than in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (O...

Iran: Turn the Page

Gwynne Dyer Last · Mar 11, 2004 · 5 min read

By Gwynne Dyer Last Thursday, only six days before the 25th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution (on 11 February), a hopeful door to the future clanged shut. D...

The pied pipers of Kashmir

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 10 min read

By H.L. Shishoo During the last six decades politics in the State has presented rapid changing features, as experiments have tended to outstrip the hypothesis f...

Arrival of the strong screen-woman

Shahla Raza At · Mar 11, 2004 · 6 min read

By Shahla Raza At last, there is something to cheer about at the end of the year. While for the most part of 2003, Bollywood threw up films which were virtual s...

Many worlds are possible

Anita Anand In · Mar 11, 2004 · 6 min read

By Anita Anand In the first two weeks of 2004, thousands of activists, academics, politicians, young and old women and men will take trains, aeroplanes and othe...

Jammu's patience may be at an end

Prof · Mar 7, 2004 · 10 min read

By Prof. Hari Om When on November 2 [2002], the Congress-I, The National Panthers Party [NPP] and the People's Democratic Party [PDP] coalition took over the st...

By Pervez Hoodbhoy

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 8 min read

Thirty years ago, fearful of India's newly acquired nuclear weapons, Pakistan set out on its own quest to become a nuclear weapons state. Lacking a strong techn...

By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 6 min read

The fight against gender violence has become synonymous with the story of three Latin American sisters, born between 1924 and 1935 in the Cibas region of the Do...

By Beena Sarwar

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 6 min read

As India and Pakistan inch towards normalising relations, each is also beleaguered by its own internal problems, political, economic and social. In this situati...

Maqbool Butt: Bring him home

Usmaan Raheem Ahmad · Mar 7, 2004 · 11 min read

By Usmaan Raheem Ahmad Like July 13th, February 11th is one of the occasions of import to commemorate on the modern Kashmiri calendar. But for me, like countles...

Who is 'Pro India' now?

Dr Shabir Choudhry · Mar 7, 2004 · 7 min read

By Dr Shabir Choudhry Over the past months both India and Pakistan have made tremendous progress on the road to friendship, and a number of confidence building ...

Looking for success stories

Jagdish Jamwal When · Mar 7, 2004 · 7 min read

By Jagdish Jamwal When in Nagrota at the Corps Headquarters we used to fly over the place to get to the Rajaori and Poonch by Helicopter. I used to feel sorry f...

The endless dilemma

Muhammad Ahsan Yatu · Mar 7, 2004 · 5 min read

By Muhammad Ahsan Yatu President Musharraf after he overthrew an elected but wayward government said so often that he would not have done it, had Nawaz Sharif n...

REPORT FROM PAKISTAN

Beena Sarwar · Feb 24, 2004 · 9 min read

The spirit of Kashmir By Beena Sarwar "If there is a ray of hopefor humanity, it is there on the soil of Kashmir," says Yasin Malik, Srinagar-based chairman of ...

Detente and domestic politics

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 1 min read

There is need for 'dialogue' within the military, explaining the new policy to the officers and the soldiers. The senior officers can explain the major reasons ...

Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 6 min read

The Indo-Pakistan joint statement issued on the last day of the 12th SAARC Summit Conference in Islamabad was the most positive outcome of the much-delayed Sout...

Stay Informed

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news and updates