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Repeal of Article 370 - Pakistan’s Reaction
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Articles 370 and 35 A, which gave special status to J&K were part of Indian Constitution. Their repeal does not violate any international agreement. These ensured that the people of J&K enjoyed democratic rights within the Indian Union, which the peo....

August 19, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Pakistan , POK , Repeal of Article 370 , Pakistan’s Kashmir rhetoric
Three Cheers - Jammu and Kashmir is Truly Integrated with India
General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM Commentary

Lightening strike, surgical operations and surprise are the terminologies most used and practiced in military operations. But here in Jammu and Kashmir, Government of India has done one better and in one step resolved the 70 years old legacy of a pr....

August 10, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Repeal of Articles 370 & 35A , Roots of Kashmir separatism , Pakistan’s antics over Kashmir
Kashmir - A New Chapter Begins

… the recent decisions of abrogation of Article 370 along with Article 35A, and bifurcation of the State … are indeed historic and will help the State and its people, chart out for itself/themselves a new future of peace, progress and integratio....

August 09, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Kashmir , Article 35A , Modi Government , Article 370 , Chapter Begins
Modi did what Nehru wanted to, but couldn’t, on Article 370
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

When Home Minister Amit Shah declared on August 6 that Article 370 has been scrapped and Kashmir fully integrated with the rest of India, whether or not he was aware, he said almost exactly what Jawaharlal Nehru told the Lok Sabha 56 years ago, on De....

August 07, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Lok Sabha , Article 370 , Amit Shah , Jawaharlal Nehru , RSS , Congress Kashmir abrogation
Lead Role of JK Police, Synergy in Anti-Terrorist Operations
Bashir Assad Article

The security situation in the Kashmir region has been spiraling downward since 2008. This is essentially because Pakistan-backed separatists have devised a new strategy to sustain the unrest. The problem now is not the militant holding the gun, bu....

July 25, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Terrorism in Kashmir , Policing against terrorism , Synergy in ant-terror operations
Burhan Wani and the Rise in Militancy in South Kashmir
Bashir Assad Article

In the continuing trend of Kashmiri youth joining militancy, five youth from five villages under the jurisdiction of Srigufwara and Bijbehara police stations in Anantnag district went missing in the last week of June. They showed up on social media s....

July 16, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Kashmir militancy , Burhan Wani factor , New hot bed of militancy
New Breed of Kashmiri Terrorists
Bashir Assad Commentary

The current phase of militancy in Kashmir has a very strong ideological basis. It is completely different from what it was in the early 1990s. Islamist theology originating from Wahabism and Maududism provides the requisite ideological input to the c....

July 12, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Kashmir militancy , Kashmiri radicalization , money and propaganda in radicalization
Al Qaida Affiliate AGuH Leader Zakir Musa Killed in J&K - What Lies Ahead?
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

On 23 May 2019, while all the prime time news channels in India were intensely pre-occupied with news and analysis of the Parliamentary Election 2019, a few of them found time and space to flash a piece of a very significant security related news fro....

June 17, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , End of terrorist Musa , Islamist terror in Kashmir , Radicalisation in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Security Review 2018 -What lies ahead?

… continuing Pakistani support to the militants groups, terrorism in the Kashmir Valley is unlikely vanish anytime soon … however the support system to anti-India activities in the Valley is being continuously degraded … welfare and development....

April 15, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism in Kashmir , Pakistan’s terror war , India’s counter-terrorism
Talk on 'Jammu & Kashmir: The Big Picture', by Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain

Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar), former General Officer Commanding of Srinagar based 15 Corps and former Military Secretary was invited to disseminate his knowledge on Jammu and Kashmir in the March edition of the V....

April 02, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , China , Indian Army , J&K , Line of Control , Jamaat-e-Islaami , Ladakh Range , Operation All-Out
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