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Kashmir continued to witness verbal duels over the Waqf issue and over the Speaker’s role and the role of the National Conference after the budget session was over

Storm in J&K Assembly over Waqf

Hari Om - April 26, 2025 0

Waqf Bill passed amid intense debate, receives Presidential assent The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which proposed significant changes in regulation of Waqf properties and settlement of...

Kashmiri Muslim leaders like Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti siding with Mirwaiz and JKIM against the ban once again exposed the blurred line between so-called mainstream parties and separatist outfits

Politics

Ban on Mirwaiz’s AAC stings Omar, Mehbooba

Hari Om - March 30, 2025 1

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq resurfaced after 5-year house arrest post-2019 clampdown Srinagar-based Sunni cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who headed the banned Awami Action Committee (AAC) and...

The Central government would do well to address the issue promptly and decisively, recognizing that the Kashmiri leadership is not only undesirable, dangerous, and fanatical but also deeply exclusivist and utterly unreliable

Opinion

Time for President Rule and reorganization

Hari Om - December 4, 2024 1

Campaign in Kashmir in support of employees dismissed over terror links July 10, 2021: Eleven government employees, including Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin’s sons, were...

The Home Minister's policy statement would help security forces involved in anti-terror operations eradicate terrorism to the maximum extent possible, and produce the desired moral effect

Politics

Commendable decision: Family members of terrorists, stone-pelters will not get government...

Hari Om - June 1, 2024 2

Centre declares no family member of terrorists, stone pelters will get govt jobs On August 5, 2019, the Government of India introduced a historic reform...

BJP leaders are working silently behind the curtains to make inroads and improve its tally by opening its account from the valley

Elections

Lok Sabha polls: BJP may give tickets to new faces in...

Chandra Maurya - February 27, 2024 1

Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, BJP in J&K to weigh new aspirants If the political grapevine is to be believed the Bharatiya Janta Party is...

SC’s verdict would go down in the history of integration of states as a crowning triumph of the suffering nation and a humiliating defeat of separatists of all varieties

Law and Order

December 11 landmark verdict: Separatist Article 370 and SC’s pertinent questions,...

Hari Om - December 11, 2023 0

The previous 8 parts of the article can be accessed here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part...

Will Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah rise to the occasion and do what is needed to be done at the earliest in the national interest?

Opinion

National requirement: To defeat Jihad and control system; separation of Jammu...

Hari Om - August 22, 2023 0

Kudos to Modi for not falling into Kashmiri Muslim trap The Narendra Modi government deserves kudos for not walking into the dangerous trap of Kashmiri...

Karan Singh’s two disturbing demands seeking Assembly elections in J&K and full state status for it only show that he didn’t know what he said

Politics

Karan Singh does not know what he says

Hari Om - March 1, 2023 1

Reluctant support Congress leader and J&K’s former Sadar-e-Riyasat Karan Singh did well on Tuesday (Feb 28, 2023) to acknowledge that “a lot of good things...

It is hoped that PM Modi and his policy planners and think tanks would take cognizance of the ground situation in J&K and further reform the August 2019 reform scheme to break the backbone of Kashmir jihad

Politics

August 2019 J&K reform scheme of PM Modi needs further reforms

Hari Om - January 18, 2023 1

Need for further reforms The BJP National Executive (NE) met in New Delhi on January 16 and 17. It passed resolutions on the prevailing socio-economic...