Category: Jammu & Kashmir related

“Pakistan’s fifth column” – Excerpts

Excerpts from Pakistan’s fifth column by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, National Post (emphasis mine) …As the campaign (against Taliban in Swat) winds down, and local residents begin to return, significant questions remain about future counterinsurgency operations....

Uh, Oh!

How many of you missed this? I did (emphasis added). Prior to the 13th round of India-China boundary talks, Indian defence and security agencies reported an increased spurt in “intrusions” and “incursions” by the...

Sharada Tirtha – A forgotten bit of Kashmir

I first heard about “Sharada Tirtha” (Sharada Temple) when I stumbled on these photographs on the net. A search led me to Varnam’s post from which I learnt that while “Sharada Peeth” was as...

State funded Jihadi education

I don’t know how many of you noticed this news-article from a few weeks back. Excerpts from Where the state pays for teachers of hate by Praveen Swami (emphasis mine): …Back in 1945, Islamist...

Weekend Links: Islam, History, Kashmir and AI

Start your weekend with this thought-provoking excerpt from Rethinking Islam, extracted from Ziauddin Sardar’s “Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures” (emphasis mine): …But the violence performed to sacred Muslim concepts is insignificant compared to the...