Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Washington, May 06 (KMS): The concept of self-determination is a vexing but significant topic in the field of human rights. It is the idea of government by the consent of the governed eternally memorialized in the soaring prose of President Thomas Jefferson in America’s Declaration of Independence. …
Read More »Acceding to self-determination is answer to kashmir’s agony: Dr Fai
Gombak (Malaysia), March 26 (KMS): Secretary General of Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, has said that solution to the suffering of Kashmiris lies in finding a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute through dialogue among all stakeholders – India, Pakistan and Kashmiri leadership. Dr Ghulam …
Read More »Threat of nuclear war can’t be ruled out until Kashmir issue is solved: NYT
Islamabad, March 08 (KMS): The threat of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India is not yet over and will continue to loom unless both countries address the core issue of their conflict – Kashmir, cautioned an editorial in The New York Times. The editorial, which was published on Thursday, …
Read More »Would Indian Government Ban Hurriyat?
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani Indian government has banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (Indian administered) for five years. This socio-religious organization has been banned a third time by BJP government in power in Delhi. The JI was first banned in 1975 during the emergency for opposing the Indira-Abdullah accord and second …
Read More »Merits of Indian argument on Kashmir
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani Government in New Delhi has a strong contingent of Hindu Mahasabha members. This Militant Hindu organization, organised a Martyrs’ Day on 30 August 1947 in Delhi. A leaflet of the organization titled “Remember the 30th of August 1947”, advised its members as follows: “When you have …
Read More »Roundtable in Brussels on victims’ evidence on HR violations
Brussels, February 23 (KMS): The European Union and South Asia Centre for Peace and Human Rights (SACFPHR) organised a roundtable on the victims’ evidence on gross human rights violations as articulated in the UN report and the formation of Europe-wide network of Kashmiri youth in the European Parliament. The roundtable …
Read More »Kashmir–General Dhillon’s threat to mothers
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani Pakistan is a nuclear state. It has cancelled out the threat of Indian size, military might and nuclear reach once for all. Unless Indian leaders decide to consign their cities and people to history books, there would be no war. Indian Government is engaged in a …
Read More »Modi govt’s doctrine to “use brutal force to kill as many as possible in Kashmir”
Dr Syed Nazir Gilani Islamabad, January 02 (KMS): This piece is my first contribution in the New Year. It would be proper to wish peace, honour and dignity to all in the world. People living in the Valley of Kashmir have very little to celebrate. Every tool is used by …
Read More »Kashmir- “A new law would be made to hang BJP leaders involved in killings”
Dr Syed Nazir Gilani Islamabad, December 28 (KMS): Bharatiya Janata Party made a maiden entry in the state government of Indian controlled (occupied) part of Kashmir in March 2015, when it struck an Alliance with PDP. On 20 June 2018, BJP decided to pull out of the Alliance and the …
Read More »Kashmir – “Save your youth”; an advice by Yasser Arafat
Dr Syed Nazir Gilani Islamabad, December 25 (KMS): In early 1990s former High Commissioner in London Syed Wajid Shams ul Hassan, invited me and Dr. Ayub Thakur to meet Yasser Arafat Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization in London. It was an exclusive and a private meeting. Towards the end …
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