Articles By Farooq Wani
Kashmir Media at Crossroads
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2022
One thing which stands out about media in Kashmir is that journalism here isn’t predominantly a family business. Instead, young boys and girls are drawn towards journalism as it’s a...
DDC Elections in J&K - a Ray of Hope!
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 29 Dec , 2020
J&K has been bearing the brunt of militancy since late eighties and having suffered a lot for more than three decades, most of people have resigned to the bleak situation and acquired an...
Will People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration Deliver
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2020
Formation of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) was announced soon after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A on 5 August 2019. Comprising National Conference (NC), People...
‘Flag Politics’ in Kashmir
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 01 Nov , 2020
Flag politics which seems to have become the new norm in Kashmir is perhaps a diversion manufactured by politicians who have nothing meaningful to offer to the people as is evident from PDP chief...
Overcoming Challenges: Kashmiris Show the Way
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2020
Kashmir’s beauty and picturesque landscape has been tarnished that has been plaguing this ‘paradise on earth’ for the last three decades. Whereas former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari...
Gilgit-Baltistan move is Diplomacy or Compulsion
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2020
Part of the erstwhile princely state of J&K, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) covers an area of 72,921 square km, is an unfortunate piece of land whose people have been worst affected due to what Pakistan...
Growing Drug Addiction in Kashmir
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 30 Jun , 2020
Prolonged nature of the Kashmir conflict and the resultant trauma caused especially to the youth has largely remained unaddressed. Lack of focused post conflict healthcare services and increased...
COVID 19 Pandemic Highlights Importance of Sustainable Cohabitation
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 23 Apr , 2020
The COVID 19 pandemic has brought the entire world on its knees and no nation, irrespective of highly developed, technologically advanced or economically prosperous has remained unscathed. And...
Corona Virus: The Internal Threat
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2020
COVID 19, also known as Corona Virus, is an infectious disease of recent origin that causes respiratory problems. There is no prescribed treatment of vaccine for the disease. While most infected...
Time for the Centre to Walk its Kashmir Talk
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 27 Feb , 2020
Post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of J&K into two Union Territories (UT), the center announced that this constitutional transformation had been done to pave the...
2019: The Year that Was in Kashmir!
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 07 Jan , 2020
Looking back, one can safely say that the year gone by was a mixed bag for Jammu and Kashmir in both the political and security domains, as well as that the going wasn’t totally smooth because...
Reflections on Kashmir Polity
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2019
Late Sheikh Mohmmad Abdullah was the tallest and most towering personality in the political history of Jammu and Kashmir who during his long political career experienced many ups and downs. He was...
Desperate for Internet in Kashmir
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2019
On August 5, the central took the major decision of bifurcating the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories and abrogated Article 370. Restrictions on communications and...
European Union Delegation stands with India with respect to Kashmir
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2019
The ruling BJP led NDA Government took a major political decision of amending the Constitution by abrogating Article 370 that gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status and bifurcating the State into...
UNGA: No takers for propaganda
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2019
The Pakistani premier, Imran Khan, went to New York to participate in the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with a single point agenda of spreading anti-India sentiments....
Lessons from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2019
Relations between New Delhi and Islamabad have been quite tense for the last five years. The 14 February, 2019, suicide attack in Kashmir’s Pulwama region that was claimed by JeM resulted in IAF...
Anti India sentiments serve Pakistan’s interests
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019
Politics makes strange bedfellows while destiny imposes difficult neighborhoods. The two nation theory being followed by Pakistan survives on spewing venom at its secular, democratic and...
Reaction to Pulwama attack and the Kashmiri sentiment
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 17 Feb , 2019
The Pulwama terrorist attack points to a dangerous new trend of militants jettisoning ambushes for tactics that aim to wreak maximum destruction on security forces while suffering minimum...
In 2019 Kashmir looks for a new era of peace and tranquillity
By: Farooq Wani | Date: 05 Jan , 2019
Kashmir has, over the last few decades since the advent of terrorism and militancy, witnessed a high threshold of violence, leading to a large number of fatal casualties of both civilians and...
The gun has served no purpose in Kashmir
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2018
Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has recently tweeted that the number of Kashmiris’ killed by security forces in 2018 has crossed the 400 mark. He has appealed to the international...