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

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)

Prof 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 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Kashmir , Book Reviews , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims , Maududi Islam , Jamat-e-Islami , Kashmiris , Ahl-e-Hadis , Islamisation , Nizam-e-Mustafa

Rewriting the New Narrative of Jammu and Kashmir

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction

Disjunction between the law and state can lead to systemic decay that breed corruption, instability, violence and erosion of institutions of governance. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is victim of the disjunction that allowed state ....

March 23, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Radicalisation , Proxy War , Article 370 , 35 A , Pakistan strategy , Over Ground Workers , Stone pelters , Cross border terrorism , Challenges , Economic impact

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

Prof 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 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Kashmir , Article 370 , Book Reviews , Kashmir: Beyond Article 370 , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims

All Quiet in Kashmir?

Bashir Assad Commentary

Kashmir is relatively calm since the last couple of months. No street protests, no encounters between the militants and the security forces. Last encounter was reported on November 26 between the militants and the forces in Pulwama district of South ....

January 09, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Pakistan , FATF , infiltration , ISI , Article 370 , Intelligence , Communications

Post 370 Kashmir - Roadmap for the future and Emerging Security Challenges

As Jammu and Kashmir enters the fifth month since the abrogation of Article 370, the national and international media, opposition leaders, and many public intellectuals have continued to repeatedly raise serious concerns about the security and commun....

January 06, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu and Kashmir , Article 370 , Post 370 Kashmir

The Jammu & Kashmir Horizon: A Recipe for Stabilisation

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

One of the things about J&K's winter is that it dampens spirits and morale. Bone chilling cold reduces human efficiency and all analyses of the situation tend to be negative. Unlike what a lot of people imagine as a period of quiet in the Valley, it ....

December 26, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , hybrid war , Article 35A , Social Media , OGWs , Information war , Articles 370

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

Recent Developments in Kashmir

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

The spate of criticism faced by India in the international community following its constitutional amendment of Article 370, the restructuring of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and the pre emptive steps taken by it to preserve peace and tranquillity ....

November 05, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Legal aspects of J&K statehood , Kashmir falsehoods , Partisan propaganda on Kashmir