Since time immemorial conflict between states has been a regular phenomenon causing untold suffering and enormous loss of human life, fragmentation of societies and devastation of economies. This subsequently led to some of these countries closing their land borders with their neighbors and hence restricting cross border trade and people to people contact. Conflict in the Asian subcontinent had similar implications on the population and land. The borders are closed rendering people and...

The chief judge of the region's high court was shot on last Tuesday in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK). Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal was rushed to a nearby military hospital, where doctors said his condition was stable. Authorities were searching for the unidentified assailant. Police was unclear on the motive for attack and there was not an immediate official response from federal interior ministry of Pakistan. There could be a personal reason or a...

Every covenant or treaty between any two nations like agreements or contracts entered between two individuals requires the contracting parties to be competent enough to enter into such contract, agreement, covenant or treaty, whatever it might be. In the present case it is averred that Maharaja Hari Singh had acceded with India in exercise of his sovereign powers upon his ruled Country J&K. The third paragraph of the format of Accession (evolved by Cabinet Mission and accepted by the...

Although, apparently Dr Farooq Abdullah- patron of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference while appointing his younger brother Dr. Mustafa Kamaal as additional General Secretary of the party cited “illness” of his elder cousin Sheikh Nazir Ahmed,  who was looking after party affairs decades together, as the reason for appointment. But, the political observers see the development beyond the reason Farooq cited.

The political observers say the decision taken by National Conference...