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J&K Interlocutors, Indian Constitution and the Dustbin
Dr Makkhan Lal, Distinguished Fellow, VIF (2015 - 2017)

Jammu and Kashmir is not a problem of the Kashmiris alone but of every ordinary citizen of this country. A closer look at the correspondence among Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maharaj Hari Singh and Sheikh Abdullah; file notings and government doc

June 22, 2012 Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies
J&K Interlocutors, Indian Constitution and the Dustbin
Dr Makkhan Lal, Distinguished Fellow, VIF (2015 - 2017)

Jammu and Kashmir is not a problem of the Kashmiris alone but of every ordinary citizen of this country. A closer look at the correspondence among Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maharaj Hari Singh and Sheikh Abdullah; file notings and government doc

June 22, 2012 Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies
Kashmir – A History of failed Interlocutors
Indranil Banerjie

If the Indian Home Minister is to be believed, then a solution to the Kashmir problem is at hand. Home Minister P Chidambaram told a Parliamentary Consultative Committee1 in early December 2010 that the “contours of a political solution

March 25, 2011 Jammu & Kashmir
Knowing when not to talk
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The ministry of external affairs press release of February 10, and our foreign secretary’s press conference of February 8, clearly indicate that the latter and her Pakistani counterpart agreed at Thimphu to resume the stalled India-Pakistan dialogu

February 20, 2011 Terrorism, Jammu & Kashmir
Scoring Self-Goals with Pakistan
Amb Kanwal Sibal

We have decided to resume the so-called composite dialogue with Pakistan, without admitting as much. Why not be frank about the change in our position? Why resort to word play to obfuscate? If we are going to discuss counter-terrorism, peace and secu

February 18, 2011 Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmir–Deciphering Islamabad’s Signals
Indranil Banerjie

The message from Islamabad is gaining in decibel: the Generals want New Delhi to initiate talks with them on Kashmir. The latest in a string of couriers was former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, who urged Dr Manmohan Singh to trave

February 08, 2011 Jammu & Kashmir
J&K: Need For a Bipartisan Consensus
Major Gen. G. D. Baxi

The full might of the Indian Republic was on display on this 26th January. No, not just in the Republic Day Parade but even more prominently at Lal Chowk in Srinagar! The BJPs plan to hoist the Tricolour in Srinagar was torpedoed by the central and S

February 07, 2011 Jammu & Kashmir
Soft State Style Won’t Work In J&K
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The turmoil in Kashmir continues and government’s nerve seems to be cracking. Curfews, police firings, dying protesters have not broken the momentum of the street protests. Pressure to find a “political” solution to the problem has increased, a

November 01, 2010 Jammu & Kashmir
Lose-Lose Situation
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The Jammu and Kashmir problem has blighted our existence since independence, draining us politically, diplomatically and militarily. Who should be blamed for this depressing balance sheet and in what measure? The actors have been Pakistan, India and

November 01, 2010 Jammu & Kashmir
Getting ‘Stoned’ by the Stones
Sushant Sareen

Since June, the stone-pelting in Kashmir seems to have left the Indian establishment stupefied. The government, both in the state and at the centre, has been reduced to a state of paralysis, almost as though they have been ‘stoned’ by the stones.

September 28, 2010 Jammu & Kashmir
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