BY: Shabir Ahmad Right after India and Pakistan became independent counties, the valley of Kashmir, than ruled by the Maharaja Hari Singh, was in a real political dilemma with its...

By:  Raja Zulkarnain The world around us seems to be made up of some minuscule fundamental particles. However which particles are regarded as fundamental varies with time. This goes back...

By: SAMEER FIDA HUSSAIN By now my ingenuity on the topic of SSA and SSA teachers has nearly exhausted. Lot has been said but nothing has been done in this...

By: Nazima Hassan Kashmir, as they say, is ‘Heaven on Earth’! It may be true perhaps to people who come from other countries or for that matter rest of the...

BY: RAYEES MASROOR The governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik dissolved the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly minutes after Mehbooba Mufti backed by claimed support of National Conference and...

BY: Javeed Ali Undoubtedly, there is no day as beautiful as the day of the birth anniversary of the impeccable and ideal personality in the whole Universe. The day which...

By: Nasir Ahmad Dar Amnesty International recently striped Aung Sang Suu Kyi of the highest honor saying it was "profoundly dismayed" at her failure to acknowledge the full scale atrocities...

By: Muzamil Manzoor & Shahjhan Mustafa Elections are imperative for peace-building and in the contemporary international norms elections are used as a potential conflict management strategy as these tend to...

BY: Badri Raina As we write, talks are being initiated in Moscow to find a solution to the political imbroglio in Afghanistan after some fifteen years of continuous warfare that...

By: Ranjit Hoskote THE PARAKEETS transit between heaven and earth like the souls of departed Sufis, their music of trill, squawk and wooroo echoing in the vaulted arches. Morning’s hazy...