articles

Self-determination: An Inescapable Principle of Kashmir Dispute

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 »

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 »

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 …

Read More »