Articles

The developments of 05 August 2019 have left a deep scar on the psyche of Pakistan. This was the day when the special provisions granted to J&K in the Indian constitution- Article 370 and Article 35(A) – were revoked. The state was bifurcated into ....

August 04, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , ISI , UN , Gilgit-Baltistan , Hurriyat , psyche , post Article 370 phase

Article 370 Fully Integrates J & K with India

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

The revision of Article 370 removed a long festering abscess in our body politic. India had been divided in 1947 but Article 370 blurred a neat division by preventing the full integration of J&K with India. J&K obtained a special status because of th....

August 03, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Pakistan , Kashmir , Radicalisation , Terrorism , Article 370 , OIC , Article 35 A , Sufi Islam , Hurriyat

J & K- Less War, More Peace: An Assessment of the Year after the Decisions of 5 August 2019

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On 5 Aug 2019 India stunned the world, and perhaps itself, with decisions regarding the constitutional exclusivity attached to the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). These were related to abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Consti....

August 03, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , hybrid war , separatism , Information Warfare , COVID-19 , Articles 370 & 35 A , Shimla Agreement , Over Ground Workers networks , ISPR

Kashmir - Is the Time Ripe for a New Outreach Strategy?

India’s historic move on August 5, 2019, heralded a new era in Jammu and Kashmir, a state which witnessed an uncertain political status and 30 years of Pak-sponsored Jihadist militancy. Before the abrogation of article 370, the normal life had come....

June 26, 2020 Pakistan , Kashmir , Article 370 , Big Outreach

Truth vs. Reality: Unshackling the Burdens of Intrigue in Kashmir

Col (Dr) DPK Pillay Article

Truthful journalism is the bulwark that makes democracies work by fulfilling the people’s right to information. This statement cannot be faulted, but there is a less comfortable truth that operates in tandem here, especially when it comes to media ....

May 30, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan , China , Kashmir , Article 370 , Article 35 A , Pandits , Great Game

K File:The Conspiracy of Silence By Bashir Assad (New Delhi, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019. 237pp)

Professor K Warikoo

Bashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has firsthand experience of the developments in Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi Isl....

April 20, 2020 Kashmir , Book Reviews , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims , Maududi Islam , Jamat-e-Islami , Kashmiris , Ahl-e-Hadis , Islamisation , Nizam-e-Mustafa

Kashmir: Beyond Article 370. By Bashir Assad. New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2020. 177 pp. Rs. 595/-

Professor K Warikoo

Bashir Assad, the Kashmiri writer has come out with yet another interesting and insightful study of Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. To quote Bashir, he has brought out the “bitter truth following his inner voice” underscoring the....

March 18, 2020 Kashmir , Article 370 , Book Reviews , Kashmir: Beyond Article 370 , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims

Five ‘T’s of China-India ties

Dr. Pankaj Jha Commentary

Following the two informal summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan (2018) and Chennai (2019) the important question that is being asked within the academic circles in China is what could be the possible template....

December 16, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , China , Commentary , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Kashmir , Terrorism , Belt and Road , Informal Summit , RCEP , trade imbalance , Aksai Chin , SR talks

Kashmir: The Climb Ahead

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

“Don’t hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft”, - Theodore Roosevelt

A State of Complexities

At the time of India’s independence, the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was, by the ver....

November 14, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Kashmir , Article 370 , Mainstreaming challenges in Kashmir , Kashmir imperatives

Kashmir - A New Chapter Begins

… the recent decisions of abrogation of Article 370 along with Article 35A, and bifurcation of the State … are indeed historic and will help the State and its people, chart out for itself/themselves a new future of peace, progress and integratio....

August 09, 2019 modi , Kashmir , Article 35A , Article 370 , Chapter Begins