To hear some impressionable types go on, you’d think all that Kashmir had to offer was paradise: beneath the misty Himalayas lagoons carpeted with fluted aquatic shrubs and voluptuous lotus blossoms, ...
For four years Jawaharlal Nehru had steadfastly refused to visit the home of his ancestors—the lovely, lake-filled Vale of Kashmir. Last week, as 80,000 Kashmiris pelted him with flowers and delighted ...
The Kashmir Valley, also called the Vale of Kashmir, is an ancient, dried lake basin surrounded by ranges of the Himalaya Mountains. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this ...
Around noon on April 22, the peaceful meadows of Baisaran, which look out over Pahalgam in South Kashmir, were suddenly shaken by violence. The day began with sunlight spreading gold across the slopes ...
The intractability of India’s and Pakistan’s competing policies was evident once again this fall, as foreign ministers parroted inflexible national positions on Kashmir at the United Nations General ...
“Great grand gestures-Yes. Grand posturing-No! ” And ” For the triumph of evil it is necessary that the concerned people do nothing” Dear Editor: Thank you for raising the people of Kashmir view ...
This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, June 17, 1958. It is republished unedited in its original form. A thin stretch of no-man’s land separates the powerful armies of ...
Pakistan has been lucky to benefit from a rich heritage of probing journalism that delves into the murky geopolitical waters that fuel instability in our country. Arif Jamal certainly fits into that ...
For 16 years, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Sheik Mohammed Abdullah led the Kashmiri nationalists against the rich and mighty Hindu Maharaja. He won Kashmir’s first legislative assembly, freedom of speech ...