Kashmir

Written by Yashee | Srinagar | Updated: February 25, 2020 10:12:29 pm On Monday (February 24), schools opened fully for the first time after the abrogation of Article 370 in August last year. (Express photo: Shuaib Masoodi)You think you are familiar with a place because you read about it. You…

Written by Syed Ata Hasnain | Updated: February 25, 2020 10:45:05 am The site of Balakot airstrikes. (Source: AP/PTI Photo/File)Pakistan’s deep state took a major risk in executing the Pulwama attack. It clearly assessed that unless it could sponsor a spectacular terror-related event in Kashmir by early 2019, the comprehensive…

Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump has made what is arguably the "most important" pit stop of his state visit to India - the iconic Taj Mahal. Mr Trump signed the official visitors book at the monument, writing that the "Taj Mahal inspires awe, a timeless testament to…

Aspiring doctors from India’s troubled region have increasingly been moving to China.Now, they face a unique predicament of staying in China, where there is an ongoing battle against the Covid-19 coronavirus, and going back to India—which, for them, signals a different, and more time-honored, kind of danger.As the outbreak spread…

Early this year, Trump went even further saying that he and Prime Minister Imran Khan were "working together on some borders, and we're talking about Kashmir" The reasons for Trump's interest isn't opaque. Hoping to pull out of the endless war in Afghanistan, the US president has negotiated a peace…

From a distance, it might have been mistaken for an early autumn snowfall: torn leaves of a Quran fluttered all around the famous Rozabal ziarat in Srinagar; the grave of the saint Yuz Asaf, believed by some to, in fact, be the resting place of Jesus, had been dug up.…

Trump must push India toward­s achiev­ing peace in the region by moving from confli­ct manage­ment to confli­ct resolu­tion US President Donald Trump. PHOTO: AFP The US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, Alice Wells, visited Pakistan last month. I had an informal conversation with her…

On his first visit to India next week, US President Donald Trump is expected to wade into several domestic controversies, challenging his Indian counterpart on the state of religious freedom in the country, as well as Kashmir. Trump will raise a number of “concerns” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

Kashmi­r Commit­tee Chairm­an Syed Fakhr Imam affirm­s that Kashmi­r and Pakist­an are intert­wined togeth­er Chairman Kashmir Committee Syed Fakhr Imam affirms that Kashmir and Pakistan are intertwined together. PHOTO: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: Kashmir Committee Chairman Syed Fakhr Imam reaffirmed that peace is not possible in the region without resolving Kashmir dispute according…

FEBRUARY 19, 2020 WHEN I FIRST MOVED to Mumbai (which I still call Bombay), I learned that Allen Ginsberg had once passed through in the 1960s. The details of how I learned this — who told me, where, when — escaped my memory immediately. The fact that I lived in…