Kashmir dispute
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Why Balochistan Is Not Kashmir
X.T.M argues Balochistan should not be equated with Kashmir, which is an internationally anchored dispute through UN resolutions, treaties and wars, while Balochistan is legally an internal matter, though he…
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Major Amin’s Summing up of the 3 Major Indo-Pak Wars
Major Amin, in an extract from his history of the Pakistan army, sums up the three Indo-Pak wars, arguing that Gilgit was won in 1947 by British and Gilgit Scouts…
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Run up to the Kashmir War of 1947-48, Pakistani POV
Major Amin argues Pakistan showed duplicity over Mountbatten’s formula on princely states, making the Maharaja of Kashmir’s accession to India legitimate, calls Nehru’s agreement to a plebiscite a blunder, and…
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Browncast Episode 103: Abhijit Iyer-Mitra on Indian Defense, Economics, and History
In Browncast Episode 103, Omar, Mukunda and Akshar talk to defence analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra about his shift from communist affinity to Indian nationalism, his views on Modi, India’s inefficiencies and…
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The Role of the Ahmediyya Movement in Kashmir
Hamid Hussain’s essay on the little-known role of the Ahmadiyya movement in Kashmir and Pakistan history, offered as an outcome of background research done while writing a piece on recent…
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The Shias of Kashmir
Hamid Hussain traces how Shia migrants and missionaries from Iran and Iraq came to Kashmir in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and sets out where Shia communities live today, as…
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Kashmir, Analysis by Dr Hamid Husain
Hamid Hussain sets out possible scenarios after India’s 5 August 2019 change to Kashmir’s status, which split off Ladakh and removed Article 35A. This is the first part; the second…
