Recently two reports were widely circulated in Indian media that a Pakistan based militant group is ready to venture into Kashmir and second “Can India become a great power”. While India has fixed its binoculars on Kashmir what it is forgetting that resentment of its 200 million Muslims is increasing. The State believes that in order to keep Hindus glued together Muslims must be portrayed as agent provocateur.

If according to reports Lashkar-E-Toiba has to come they will most probably...

Death of two Kashmiris - Afzal Guru and Mohammed Ali Murtaza, speech of Dr Shabir Choudhry in a seminar in the UN Human Rights Session in Geneva

Seminar arranged by International Committee for the Respect and Application of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights ICRAC (CIRAC) during 22nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

Title of the seminar: Human rights in South Asia 12 March 1213

 

Mr Chairman, friends and colleagues Aslamo alaikam

Despite remarkable work...

The JnK Police bill, 2013 has been put in public domain for discussion. The currret bill stems from the Supreme Court's judgement titled Prakash Singh and Ors v Union of India WP (Civil) No. 310 of 1996. In this case the petitioner challenged the non-implementation of police reforms as recommended by the National Police Commision in 1981. In this case Court finally gave directions to make the police accountable in accordance to the rule of law. The recommendation of the Supreme Court are...

"An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes to his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world- the client, and no other…to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties…..Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them if need be to the wind, he must go on reckless of the consequences…” - Lord Brougham, “Law and...

“(I)t is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond,” wrote Walter Lippmann in his seminal book ‘Public Opinion’, “as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.”

On Jan 30, 1971 an obsolete Indian airlines flight ‘Ganga’ was hijacked by Hashim Quershi who landed it on Pakistani soil. All the passengers were either Indian service personnel or their families. They were released...

Law is institutional normative order. Institutions have walls, sometimes literal, sometimes figurative – that keep things out. Unfortunately in the case of Afzal Guru, the judiciary seems to have given in to a narrative alignment and it has caused a shift in the ordinary course of law.

The first apparent evidence that there has been a ‘narrative alignment’ is when the court expressed itself that “the collective conscience of the (sic) society will only be satisfied if the (sic)...

In the summer of year 2010, Bangalore was peevishly hot. The month was April; its last days marking the end of a three month long training vocation Wipro technologies subjected us through. I had joined the Indian Corporate giant after having done my four years for bachelors at NIT Srinagar. We were a company of two Kashmiri friends—together in college and from there into this Job. Nothing was to remain of those months—like of all the days that come as routine and return the...

Maqbool Butt was 46 when he, on Feb. 11-1984 (Saturday), achieved his cherished objective of martyrdom in Tihar Jail Delhi. The resistance icon Maqbool was in absolute trance and communion with God Almighty when he was gibbeted at 7.30 a.m. Analysts will continue to anatomize the metaphysical aspect of his dynamic personality. Dialecticians will certainly delve deep into the dynamics of his exemplary struggle as a conscientious and committed patriot of Kashmir. In Maqbool’s case...