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… 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

जम्मू-कश्मीर के लिए 2019 में ठोस राष्ट्रीय नीति जरूरी

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

यह लेख भावी तस्वीर के बारे में कुछ अनुमानों से शुरू होगा। पहला, निकट भविष्य में जम्मू-कश्मीर पर �....

March 15, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , जम्मू-कश्मीर , राजनीतिक इच्छाशक्ति`

Militancy in Kashmir - A Study

Abhinav Pandya

.. An alternate narrative needs to be created in universities and colleges of J&K to counter lies peddled by cross-border actors. Think-tanks, research forums, youth forums or inter-faith dialogue bodies and cultural interaction clubs can be created ....

March 14, 2019 Terrorism , Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Kashmir militancy , radicalization of Kashmiri youth , Kashmiri separatism