By K N Pandita Kashmir security situation asks for day to day assessment. Pakistan has accelerated anti-India propaganda on international scale focusing on human rights areas. She has succeeded in her mission to some extent. The UN Secretary General, besides the Rapporteur, has issued a chastising statement indirectly castigating India for what they consider violation of human rights. India is countering the canard wherever it can and in whatever way it can. But the human hearts always melt for the victimised people. Pakistan propaganda machinery has gained expertise in the creation of victimh ..read more

By K N Pandita Power, popularity and riches came heaping on Farooq Abdullah as the body of his late father was downed to lay into eternal rest close to the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Father’s massive socio-political legacy and abounding support from Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, were strong factors to shut the mouth of critics and political opponents to Farooq when he stepped into the shoes of his late father with hardly the established criterion of an Indian politician. Along with other traits of character, Farooq has inherited eccentricity as well, which remained with h ..read more

By K N Pandita After bringing in the J&K Reorganization Act 2019, the opposition blamed the government for being too hasty and not offering anything substantial to J&K under the changed dispensation. This was also the refrain of the dissident valley leadership. Committed critics are quick to find fault with any new and progressive initiative of the Union government. But if asked what explicit projects they undertook during their decades-long stint in power, they draw a blank. The problem is that the valley leadership has not learnt the fundamentals of promoting secular democratic dispe ..read more

By K N Pandita J&K’s accession to the Indian Union on 26 October 1947 was the direct result of the incursion of Kashmir by the lashkars of North West Frontier tribesmen conceived, planned and abetted by the rulers of the nascent State of Pakistan. The diehard activists of Lord Curzon’s “Great Game in Central Asia” of mid-19th century, working in tandem with the new brand Islamists in the sub-continent, focused attention on one particular objective of stonewalling India’s access to the west and north. This unfolded on them the strategic importance of Jammu and Kashmir. Months ahead of the a ..read more

By K N Pandita On December 1, Al Jazeera published a longish write-up of one Rifat Fareed on the arrest of Khurram Pervez, the so-called Kashmiri Human Rights activist by the NIA for his involvement in terrorist related funding and links. Like many more India bashing pseudo-intellectuals, media persons and human rights activists, the writer of the piece has heaped all possible accusations and imaginable charade against the administrative machinery, security forces and army who are running the affairs in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The crux of these accusations is that India prese ..read more

By K N Pandita In the course of its deliberations, the Delimitation Commission met with leaders from the Peoples Conference, National Conference (NC), CPI, CPI (M), Panthers Party, Congress, BJP, Apni Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. The Commission also met with District Election officers from Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian. The Commission also met with various delegations of the people of the Union territory from both regions to know their views on issues connected with the delimitation of constituencies. The purpose of this interaction was to gather first-hand information about the cond ..read more

By K N Pandita India’s cordial relations with the people of Afghanistan is traceable in the Vedic times and the hoary past when, according to the antiquarians, the Aryans had left vast Central Asian dried up grasslands and got dispersed in different parts of the old world including Northern India for permanent resettlement. Afghanistan has a long and chequered history. As it lay on the crossroad to the vast Indian plains, the rugged upland got trampled under the hoofs of the horses of adventurous and warlike hordes from the Steppes of Turkestan. Some of those invading hordes raised empires, ki ..read more

By Prof. K.N. Pandita see picture one on news intervention.com “The nation has lost one of its bravest sons. His four decades of selfless service to the motherland were marked by exceptional gallantry and heroism. My condolences to his family,” grieved the President of India on the tragic death of India’s 1st Chief of the Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat in a chopper crash at Coonoor in Tamilnadu on December 8, 2021. General Rawat, a visionary commander, who meant business and who understood that the Indian defence structure needed to come out of the stereotype k ..read more

By K N Pandita “The nation has lost one of its bravest sons. His four decades of selfless service to the motherland were marked by exceptional gallantry and heroism. My condolence to his family”, grieved the President of India on the tragic death of India’s 1st Chief of the Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat in a chopper crash in Coonoor in Tamilnadu on Wednesday. The entire nation and its top leadership are shocked and stunned by the tragic news of the Nilgiris air crash in which 11 defence personnel besides the Rawat couple lost their lives. Among other casualtie ..read more

By K N Pandita People who know Farooq Abdullah well call him an eccentric man. Even some of his senior party colleagues also profile him like that. The fact is that he has a method of madness. He never advocated Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan because he had learnt the lesson from his father who had personal experience of dealing with Pakistanis. Moreover, Farooq has had a long interaction with the Pakistanis and particularly with the PoK Diaspora in the UK. This valuable fund of experience has taught him not even to think of Kashmir acceding to Pakistan. Apart from this, Farooq knows how inim ..read more