JK Policy Institute
While the prospect of AFSPA revocation and troop withdrawal has elicited mixed responses, with opposition parties cautiously optimistic yet sceptical about practical implementation, Amit Shah’s statements signify a potential shift…
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“It’s political, it’s always been. So rather than attributing it to matters of faith, one has to look at these fights among the clerics over the moon sightings as something…
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At a time when competing communities are investing enormous energies in valorizing their culture as “civilized” and that of others as “savage”, it is pleasant to see the artistic expression…
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New Delhi needs to evolve a multipronged security model — one that would bring in the expertise of a bevy of professionals and not just of the traditional domain experts.…
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Lest we forget… it was on May 21, 1990, when Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq — the then Mirwaiz of Kashmir, and father of incumbent Mirwaiz (Umar Farooq) —was assassinated at…
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There is confusion all around. And confusion almost always arises because of no accountability; a bliss for the unscrupulous, who thrive and prosper in the absence of any checks and…
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The medical profession and education have become a business and now the regulation of medical education has also gone that way which is the nation’s tragedy, an anguished Supreme Court…
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In the face of indescribable violence, in the face of unconscionable evil marked by recent targeted killings, Kashmir is once again gripped by fear in a way it has been…
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By Javaid Trali Afghanistan is, in fact, a classic case study of the convergence of interests of a wide range of actors — be it the transnational arms dealers or…
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Javaid Trali On July 31, 2021, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police issued an order, denying security clearance for passports and other government services to…
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Javaid Trali I had just finished going through the two interviews, ‘The Print’ had published recently in connection with the upcoming second anniversary of the August 2019 decisions, when I…
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Touseef Raina The changes affected by the Government of India post-August 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir and the way local mainstream leaders were treated in the wake of the revocation…
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