Dialogue on Kashmir – New Interlocutor
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
A ‘plebiscite’ and a ‘referendum’ have been accepted as a dialogue, over the centuries. Switzerland was the first country when in the 13th century, people gathered and took votes on issues with the show of hands. Switzerland is called as the referendum capital of the world and the country incorporated the practice More...
Demilitarization in Kashmir – Hurriet failure?
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
Hurriet came on the scene of Kashmir politics in early 1990s and adopted a political discipline on 31 July 1993. Under Chapter II article 2 (i) of its constitution, Hurriet had to More...
Catalan Referendum and Kashmir Referendum – Commonalities
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
Referendum has picked up pace and is broadly accepted as a right of all people to express themselves in regard to their status as a community. Laws cannot force an unwilling people More...
Pakistan and India at the UN GeneralAssembly – Kashmiri point of view
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
Pakistan spoke at the 72nd session of UN General Assembly on 21 September and India on 23 September 2017. In between the two statements both countries exercised their respective rights More...
Rajnath Singh in Srinagar – Imagine if?
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is in Srinagar on a four day visit of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The official hand out on his first meeting with the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has flagged Agenda of More...
Prime Minister can carry the day at UN GA?
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
Pakistan and India clash under agenda item 3 at the 33rd session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva did not surprise anyone. However, the use of the “Report of the Working More...
Kashmir and UN General Assembly Debate
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
The 71st session of UN General Assembly starts on 13 September 2016. Annual General Debate will start from Tuesday 20 September 2016 on”The Sustainable More...
Angry Rajnath Singh and our Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh and chairman Kashmir Committee in the Parliament of Pakistan Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman are the two most important people in the Indian and More...
Voting trends in AJK
Ayesha Gardezi
The state legislative assembly elections were recently held in AJK. I, being a first time voter, was very excited for exercising my right to vote and hence contributing in the formation More...
Pakistan level series on Independence Day
Pakistan made an impressive recovery to level the series against England at the Oval, on 14th August – Independence Day. It was an emphatic victory with Pakistan winning by 10 wickets, coming back from losing More...
