Articles By K.N. Pandita
Depoliticizing Kashmir is the way out
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2019
Upturning of a plethora of Kashmir political rubble accumulated over seventy years is the sum and substance of Governor’s recent interview to some pressmen. It is for the first time that the...
Why India rejects mediation
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2019
In 72-year-old Kashmir dispute, India persistently rejected third party mediation. Some superpowers volunteering to offer mediation are morally on the back foot to accept historical truths fearing...
A Terrorist State Clamouring for Peace
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2019
Hours before leaving for the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet, Prime Minister Imran Khan in an interview to Sputnik, a Russian news agency, blew hot and...
Emerging political scenario in the sub-continent
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2019
Days ahead of the parliamentary election in our country, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan remarked in a press briefing that with a right-wing government in New Delhi chances for the resumption...
Strangulating the Neelam Valley
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2019
Kashmir historian Kalhan Pandit (mid-12th century) has made a mention of river Krishnaganga several times in his chronicle Rajatarangini and has also given some useful hints about its geographical...
South Asian Nuclear Power in a Debt Trap
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2018
It sounds ludicrous that Pakistan, a South Asian nuclear power, is caught in a debt trap and is beating every nerve to be bailed out. Amusingly, the debt trap is laid out by none other than the...
Goodwill dialogue before political dialogue
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Oct , 2018
As India announced cancellation of the proposed foreign ministers’ sit together on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, Pakistani media has gone berserk in bringing accusations...
Re-structuring of the RR Headquarter?
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2018
In a recent issue, the Daily Excelsior of Jammu informed that the Army was contemplating re-structuring of the Rashtriya Rifles Headquarters for better operational capability and strategic and...
Convergence of the strongest and the largest
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2018
The US high power delegation led by the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, and including the US Army Chief, has just concluded its visit to India. The two countries are moving towards closer...
The US-Pakistan relations at crossroads
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2018
A fracas over a telephonic message from the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to Imran Khan on 23 August only added to the already strained relations between the US and its former South Asian...
The breaking of impasse in Kashmir
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2018
In all probability the stalemate in J&K is finally heading towards an end and the legislators hitherto hibernating in suspended animation are gearing up for resumption of their normal function of...
Imran is bidding for "New Pakistan"
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2018
We cannot help looking somewhat askance when we are told that Imran Khan wants to make a “New Pakistan”. There is mystery in the term “New Pakistan” about what it actually means? In his...
Some Reflections on Pak General Election
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2018
On 25 July, Pakistan completed the third general election to the National Assembly. In the run-up to election campaigning, brutal unleashing of violence in Baluchistan and KP leading to hundreds...
UN Human Rights Commission discredits itself
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2018
For the first time in the history of Kashmir question at the UN, the Chairman of Human Rights Commission Mr. Zeid Ra’d Al Hussein of Jordan has issued a 49-page tutored report spread over 20...
Historic Message of Jordanian King
By: K.N. Pandita | Date: 05 Mar , 2018
During his three day royal visit to India beginning 27th of February, King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan had a number of engagements in Delhi which kept him busy all the time. Despite a...
The Roots of Afghan War
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2018
A US official spokesman said that the Saturday devastating attack in the centre of Kabul city was planned and executed by Taliban and the Haqqani Network. 103 people were killed and hundreds...
South Asia: Re-alignments on the Anvil
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2018
In bilateral relations, there are no permanent friends or foes: there are only permanent interests. US-Pakistan relations almost reached nadir when President Trump; twitted “lies and deceit”....
Trump–Pakistan Jihad Love
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2018
The news has come that Pakistan has imposed a ban on Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation from collecting donations. Pakistani media have given wide publicity to this...
Simmering Cauldron in the Himalayas
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2017
We shall be entering twenty-eighth year of sponsored Kashmir insurgency. The bloodshed on either side has neither thrown out India nor brought in Pakistan. The position of Kashmir uprising is...
Iran-US Relations: The Nuclear Spat
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2017
The spat is about US suspecting Iran secretly working on nuclear programme despite limits imposed by Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of July 2015.[1] The US believes Iranian theocratic...