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...

For a while Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah appears to have survived the storm over the alleged custodial killing of his acquaintance and party supporter Syed Mohammad Yousuf: courtesy unflinching support from the Congress party. But the dangers are still lurking around him. If one is to believe the private conversations of the Congress leaders, their support to Omar Abdullah is not infinite. They have made up their minds to take over the office of the chief minister in the...

 

There is a flurry of news in Kashmir these days. But, ironically, most of this news is not welcome, at least for the state chief minister Omar Abdullah. It is rather quite embarrassing for him. The death of a chief minister’s acquaintance and his party National Conference’s prominent activist Syed Mohammad Yusuf in police custody is one such news that surely must have made Omar Abdullah nervous. Syed died after chief minister personally handed him over to Police Crime Branch for...

October 3 will go down in the history of Kashmir as the darkest day as far as the high traditions of parliamentary democracy are concerned.

The disrepute, disgrace and shame brought on the legislative assembly, the most sacred institution in a democratic set up, on this day will go in the annals of the history as perhaps the most appalling day that has never happened in the past and may never happen in future, even in the worst ever autocratic and undemocratic regimes. And the worst is that...