Kashmiri Youth: Accepting the Challenges
By K.N. Pandita The history of a nation is usually interspersed with moments of passivity as well as of activity: it is seldom smooth and even. How the nation reacts to the upheavls or how it conducts...
View ArticleThe smash of civilizations
Found in Asian Times, July 9, 2005, by Chalmers Johnson, Note from Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch: The World Monuments Fund has placed Iraq on its list of the Earth’s 100 most endangered sites,...
View ArticleCharlie’s war, act two
Found in Asia Times, 19 July 2005, by William Fisher, NEW YORK – Today’s media have all but forgotten that the emergence of Afghanistan’s Taliban can be largely attributed to the policies of the US...
View ArticleCenter about Tajik Culture in Bolder, USA
The Osimi Cultural Center is a non-profit organization that was registered on April of 2002 in Denver, USA. The main goal is the promotion of cultural and scientific collaboration between intellectuals...
View ArticleOpen season for jihadis
Asia Times-online publishes on 27 july 2005 the following article by Syed Saleem Shahzad: KARACHI – Sophisticated terror attacks using the minimum possible resources to target civilians are the issue...
View ArticleThe metamorphosis of Al-Qaida
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, 01 August 2005, ANALYSIS, by Rajeev Sharma, New Delhi, July 31 – The world of jihad is undergoing a never-before churning process which is set to throw up significant...
View ArticleMetamorphosis – The Answer
Letter to the Editor, The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, by K.N. Pandita, Jammu 01.08.05, Sir – This refers to ‘The metamorphosis of Al-Qaeda’ by Rajeev Sharma (August 1, 2005). A comprehensive subject...
View ArticleCool-headed diplomacy
Found in Asia Times of 6th August, 2005, by Adam Wolfe, Russia and China delivered a one-two punch to Washington’s ambitions in Central Asia on the eve of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit with a joint...
View ArticleCalculated muscle-flexing
Found in Asia Times, August 6, 2005, by Sergei Blagov, MOSCOW – Russia’s unprecedented joint war games with China can be viewed as a dual message to the United States and the Central Asian republics of...
View ArticleThe heavy hand of justice
Letter to the Editor, by K.N.Pandita – Dear Sir, The Supreme Court of India, the highest institution of justice in the country has delivered its judgement in the case of terrorist attack on the...
View ArticleTerror in the holy cities
K.N. Pandita, Recently terrorists were holed up in Mecca and Medina, the two historic and holy cites of the Saudi Kingdom. Saudi police found them activists of Al-Qaeda, the crusaders of the 18th...
View ArticleIran bogged down with nuclear controversy
By K.N. Pandita, A less expressed view in some knowledgeable Iranian circles is that the new President’s hard-line posture is an exception rather than the rule There are other more baffling issues that...
View ArticleThe Saudi-Pakistan nexus
The Tribune, Only jehadis have gained, by G. Parthasarathy WHEN Saudi Arabia’s ruler King Fahd died after a prolonged illness on August 1, his last rites were performed according to strict and austere...
View ArticleProtest without logic
Letter to the editor by K.N.Pandita. This is with reference to ‘Beyond Muslim condemnation of terrorism’ by Louay Safi (AT 5 August 2005). Some Muslim organizations have reacted against the brutality...
View ArticleNorth Korea and the United States
Found in the National Security Archive, Washington DC, the following article: Declassified Documents from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No....
View ArticleSaddam Hussein
Found in The National Security’s Archive NSARCHIVE Oct. 18: Saddam’s Iron Grip, Intelligence Reports on Saddam Hussein’s Reign. Washington D.C. October 18, 2005 – The National Security Archive today...
View ArticleWhat an ignominious exit
By K.N. Pandita Congress has its patent antics of making scapegoats and passing the buck on. Buta Singh has been a Congress activist for the whole of his life. How can one become Mr. non-partisan over...
View ArticleNot only a sectarian divide
By K.N. Pandita The roots of Shia-Sunni jihad bedevilling Pakistan’s Punjabi dominated regions in general and more recently the Kurram Agency of FATA in particular, have to be traced in the deep –...
View ArticleOn the Sidelines of Kashmir History
By K.N. Pandita Mr. Jagmohan’s write – up (Kashmir’s new danger April 12, 2007) asks for some vital clarifications. A letter will not do, hence a full write-up. Shri Jagmohan is one most outstanding...
View ArticleNot protests but positive approach
By K.N. Pandit Nine Muslim organizations held a protest in the capital recently slamming Congress for victimizing Muslims who they claim are innocent. This protest was evoked by Delhi police...
View ArticleKashmir and its PANDITS
… to remember the real history … Letter by Dr. K.N. Pandita, General Secretary of ASIAN-EURASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM AEHRF, Delhi to Mr. L.K. Advani, Hon’ble Deputy Prime Minister & Home Minister of...
View ArticleKashmir Crisis- the Historical Perspective
By K.N. Pandit Unprecedented changes have occurred in the world during past three decades. These are conspicuously visible in international relations, geo- political strategies, economic recession...
View ArticleSonia Gandhi – A Blot on the Nation
(Am not sure about authenticty of this article) by Mark Tully* Sir William “Mark” Tully, OBE. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of...
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