Recent political developments in Kashmir appear as part of a larger design: to knock out the mainstream regional parties whose Autonomy, Self-Rule or Achievable Nationhood proposals would often clash with Delhi’s Kashmir motives. Will it go down in the history as GoI’s yet another Kashmir blunder? By Sabira Shah Some senior BJP leaders of […]
Had Mehbooba shown any appreciation for what befell her father in his death, she could have elicited some gainful lessons for herself and the party. That did not happen, because like her father, she was enamoured by nothing but the greed for power By Murtaza Shibli As a dénouement to […]
Bhartiya Janata Party National General Secretary and Kashmir minder Ram Madhav said that former Chief Minister had allowed the government forces to operate freely during her tenure while the Government of India had announced ‘operation all-out’. “..(T)hough government forces faced difficulties on the security front, the Mehbooba-led government had allowed them to operate freely,” Madhav […]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Thursday said cases against minors and those “misled into stone pelting” stone pelters in the Valley will be withdrawn, reports said. The Union Home Ministry late last year had ordered to withdraw cases against youths involved in stone pelting. Singh appealed […]
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday congratulated Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) over their win in Karnataka assembly elections. “Hearty congratulations to @BJP4India for their stellar performance in Karnataka. #KarnatakaVerdict,” Mehbooba tweeted. The BJP touched the halfway mark in leads, ahead in 112 seats as votes are counted in the Karnataka assembly elections, and has […]
The all-party meeting convened by Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday will push for a “Ramzan ceasefire” proposal within the state and across the border with Pakistan, along the lines of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s initiative in 2003, a media report claimed. The meeting, which is underway at the time of the filing of this […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that “Islam doesn’t permit us to embrace death at this age”. Mufti was reacting to the killing of ten Kashmiris by government forces in south Kashmir on Sunday. “Allah has sent us to Earth to live a good life. Islam doesn’t permit us to embrace […]
It was anybody’s guess what Mehbooba Mufti was up to for the past three months after her father’s demise. Initially she tried to position herself as a politician who is not power hungry. She kept on whipping her moral high horse to take her higher and higher so that people are deceived into perceiving her […]
After Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s death, analysts believed his daughter would step into his place without any hassles. Many expected Mehbooba Mufti to re-brand the party and effect a change from her father’s surreptitious ways of conducting politics. But the way she has gone around things post-Mufti shows ambivalence and ambiguity are in the DNA of […]