Kashmir Life (KL): Why have you have questioned Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration’s (PAGD) sincerity?
Abdul GaniVakil (GV): In politics, when bigger parties come together they always have reservations and problems with one another. I have already informed my party that the PAGD has no logic and rationale because the NC and PDP have fought each other since long. How can they come together?
KL: Are you suggesting the PAGD is rudderless?
AGV: I heard the PAGD President Farooq Abdullah’s speeches. He has been saying that they will wait for the Supreme Court’s decision on Article 370. How is that different from the BJP’s stand? Every party in the rest of the country is saying the same thing. If everybody is waiting for this only then why the PAGD was formed? There should have been a full-fledged programme for restoration of our special status.
KL: What should be this full-fledged programme be like?
AGV: Something which is new. Something that the people will believe in. If there is a unity only for elections or for grabbing power then I have my doubts on this alliance. It seems they have no plan at all. Something seems to be hidden behind this coming together of former rivals. The programme can be to protest democratically by reaching out to the masses, democratically pressurizing the central government. People will see what sort of drama this is? Such dramas have only created trouble for the people. This same leadership of PAGD in the past made many promises individually which were never fulfilled.
KL: Are you implying that PAGD won’t last?
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Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the âGraveyard of Empiresâ, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country that was always in turmoil and one of the worst targets of the Great Game suffered immensely throughout, especially in the last 40 years, Masood Hussain writes
FINGERS CROSSED
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple â wait and watch
Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
The visiting 28-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have had detailed interactions with top civil administration and discussed developmental scenario and peopleâs welfare measures in Jammu and Kashmir. It is on a 4-day visit. Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma is heading the committee.
MUSIC IN MUD HOUSE
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the regionâs geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
âSOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IS THE OUTCOME OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN KASHMIR STAND-OFF'
Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
LG In Bangus
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela amidst grand arrangements for village games, exhilarating local performances, and other activities to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
