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Amid raging insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir, former prime minister Manmohan Singh has accused the ultrantionalist Narendra Modi government of failure to address troubles in the disputed territory – also a scene of worsening Pakistan-India shelling. Singh,...

Kashmir region 2004 Photo: CIA/Wikimedia Commons Amid exchange of fire across Kashmir’s Line of Control, uprising against Indian repression of the Kashmiris and the latest attacks on an Indian military base in the disputed region, Indian...

The Indian-controlled Kashmir has been in a state of turmoil and uprisings for far too long as the local population continues to see New Delhi as occupier of their land. The ruling India’s BJP government’s hard...

Amid lingering South Asian tensions, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday has asked India and Pakistan to settle the Kashmir problem through dialogue. “The secretary-general reiterates his call on the parties to resolve the issue through engagement...

Photo: Vikramjit Kakati/ Wikimedia Commons The horrible plight of mothers of the disappeared youth in Indian-ruled Kashmir, the uncertainty of life and scant regard for human rights in the one of the world’s most heavily militarized...

Photo www.bollywoodhungama.com via Wikimedia Commons A wave of ultranationalism sweeping India has found its latest target in a twitter message by popular actress Priyanka Chopra – her crime just wishing America a Happy Independence Day in...

When India’s ultra-nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi visited Washington last week, he represented a country fast severing its links to secularism and pluralism that once made it an exemplary democracy. A series of reports and articles...

Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy, Photo Vikramjit Kakati/Wikimedia Commons Renowned author Arundhati Roy, whose intellectual honesty on Indian forces’s reign of bloodshed in Kashmir is taken as act of treason by the BJP followers, is once...

Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, Photo by Jeev Wikipedia  This year the International Day for Monuments and Sites is dedicated to the theme “Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism.” While designating 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism...

Despite mounting tensions in Kashmir and along parts of the border during the last several months, the trade between Pakistan and India has remained intact since the beginning of the current fiscal year. Pakistan’s central bank...