Going by all statements that the ministers in Delhi are making for the last many months, the valley is calm and quiet, no stone-throwing instances, no militant violence and no political activity by any party other than BJP.
Kashmir has stopped creating good or bad news. Most of the news about Kashmir now comes from Delhi, Islamabad or the capital of world politics.
But that is not the case in the UT of Leh or the Jammu part of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. They have issues and they come out on roads.
Reported by quite a few media, there were two major protests in Leh last week.
On January 13, various students of the desert region came together under the banner of Students Organization of Unified Ladakh (SOUL) and moved on streets with the demand for inclusion of UT of Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule. The student group sat on a protest in a tent near the Old Bus Stand to demand safeguarding Ladakh’s identity.
The peaceful protest saw a lot of music and folk songs being relaying throughout its march from the NDS Ground to the Balkhang Chowk in Main Bazaar. They played a skit to communicate the requirement of protecting the culture, unique to the region.
Rigzen Dorjay, the SOUL President in his brief speech questioned the silence of Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal and other Ladakh leaders over the issues that Ladakh faces after it emerged as the UT, without an assembly. Dorjey said region’s culture, language, ecology and all its distinct facets of life can be protected only by the sixth Schedule.
Denne historien er fra February 23-29, 2020; Issue 47 Vol 11; ‘I pray to God to give me the stature of Bakshi Sahib’-utgaven av Kashmir Life.
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Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, 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 – 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 people’s 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 region’s 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.
‘SOME 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.
