A peace process gone missing

Will parliamentarians live up to their institution by ceasing to paralyse it?

Radha Kumar

On the day Afzal Guru was given the death penalty, TV talk shows were abuzz about whether the decision was political. Their assumption, clearly, was that it should not be. I accept the government's position that it was not. My point is that it should have been. The politics most anchors have referred More
An abomination called AFSPA

How many more deaths, how many more naked protests, how many more hunger strikes, how many more committees, how many more editorials and articles and broadcasts before AFSPA goes?

Sanjoy Hazarika

At an institute that is virtually owned, funded and run by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did the unthinkable the other day. He virtually attacked the Army for refusing to review and amend the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), if not repeal More
Destabilizing Kashmir

They didn't care what will hanging Afzal mean to Kashmir peace

Showkat Ahmad Pala

The morning of 9th Feb. 2013 began with the news of   Afzal Guru’s hanging, who was convicted of his involvement in parliament attack 2001. Indian political parties (Congress, BJP and CPM) celebrated the victory of “rule of law”. But it was heart-rending news for the people of Kashmir.  More
Of guilt, culpability and capital punishment

Politics and expediency can never excuse the death penalty; nothing can

Jim Drummond

 I learned on February 9 that the Government of India had executed Afzal Guru in Delhi. Afzal Guru had allegedly confessed then later recanted his confession and denied both plotting the attack and ever being a member of Jaish-e-MuhamMad, the militant group which carried out the attack. A man More
  • Kashmir

Lawyer who secured death sentence for Afzal disapproves secret hanging

It is a human rights violation, family ought to have been first informed: Prosecutor Gopal Subramanium

SPOTLIGHT

New Delhi, Feb 13: The very lawyer instrumental in securing death sentence for Afzal Guru disapproves of the secretive manner in which he has been executed without being given an opportunity to meet his More


  • Srinagar City

Police start helplines in 'caged' city

‘We want to reach out to people’

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Amid continuous curfew to quell protests against hanging of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru, police have come up with helplines in the city for “convenience” of people. & More



  • Jammu

Traffic disrupted on highway

M M PARVAIZ

Ramban, Feb 13: Traffic remained disrupted on Jammu-Srinagar highway for more than six hours following landslides triggered at Seri near Ramban township on Wednesday morning.As per official reports landslides More


  • South Asia

Salah-u-Din for unified political leadership

Flays Pak Govt’s silence over hanging

Afzal Hanging Murder Of Justice And Law: UJC

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 13: Urging pro-freedom leadership to forge unity, the UJC leadership on Wednesday said a unified political leadership in Kashmir with a strong resistance movement at its back was the only More


  • World

Obama announces troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

LALIT K JHA\PTI

Washington, Feb 13: US President Barack Obama today announced to bring 34,000 American troops back home from war-torn Afghanistan in the next one year as he warned North Korea and Iran to meet the international More


  • PaK

Afzal’s hanging can’t suppress Kashmir movement: PaK PM

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Feb 13: Prime Minister of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK)   Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Wednesday said that persecution of Kashmiris would not deter them from carrying forward More


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