a conflict driven by nationalistic and religious fervour, with each side, India and Pakistan, pointing to the violence and injustice of the other, and each side, India and Pakistan, pointing to its own suffering and sorrow, while ignoring the irreparable loss of lives, unredeemable loss of productive years, unsalvageable loss of properties and sources of livelihood, and the deep-rooted sense of despair of Kashmiris.
South Asia Citizens Web
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The Dangerous Habit of Silence
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Pakistan: Lack of association | Shujauddin Qureshi
7 May 2016With the erosion of their constitutional right to form unions, workers have lost their collective bargaining powers
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Indo-Pak judicial committee on prisoners has not met since more than two years - the deputy foreign minister should not mislead the parliament : PIPFPD
6 May 2016Statement by Pakistan India People’s Forum For Peace and Democracy regarding misleading claims by Minister of State for External Affairs, V.K Singh that the India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee consisting of retired judges of superior judiciary from two countries are meeting every six months.
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India: “What Has Been Happening in Recent Times Could Well Develop Into Fascism”: An Interview with Romila Thapar (The Caravan)
6 May 2016The thought that crossed my mind was that what they’re trying to suggest about sedition vis-à-vis the nation in India, is becoming somewhat like blasphemy in the context of religion.
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India: A history of their own | Mridula Mukherjee
5 May 2016Behind the Bhagat Singh controversy lies an attempt to impose one notion of nationalism .... demands for destruction of and prohibition on sale of books written by JNU historians that have been on sale for decades, is it entirely unreasonable for us to wonder if there is a method to the madness, a rationality to the irrationality?
