FJ Kashmir

inam ul Rehman   It has been 30 years since the Kashmiris picked up gun against the Indian system . If someone says nothing has changed then he must be put into a mental asylum. What hasn’t changed is that the Kashmiris fight to redraw the boundary continues.   So, what has the Kashmiri leadership, pro-resistance intellectuals learned in the past 30 years about the Indian state? Apparently, nothing. From trying to physically evict India from Kashmir, the Kashmiri leadership, and pro-resistance intellectuals are now trying to shame the Indian state into submission! No state in the world can be shamed into submission, especially when it comes to secession .   Sadly, there has been no concerted effort to understand the Indian state. No Tehreeki intellectual writes on the Indian state. How does it work? What galvanises it?what riles it?what holds it together?what are its underbellies?what makes it to fear?what will make India to give up its claim on Kashmir? What keeps it u...

Reneging Article 370  inam ul rehman Unlike match fixing where the outcome of the match is decided, and needs most influential players to be part of it, spot fixing is betting about some parts of the game without the support of influential players and does not necessarily impact the outcome.    When the US Department of State declared chief of the United Jihad Council , Syed Salahuddin , as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on June 26, 2017, no one in Kashmir asked what interest the USA has in it. It was in keeping with the tradition of “we know it is India’s conspiracy”. Salahudidn is neither an ideologue nor a fighter, never attacked or threatened American interests, and believes in democracy. By declaring him as its enemy wasn’t the USA getting directly involved in the Kashmir dispute? It means that India has to accept Kashmir as an international dispute because the US bracketed Salahuddin among its enemy, which also ticks the vital column which the P...

His letter validates what Zakir Musa , Qayoom Najar said years ago.   inam ul rehman In June this year, an audio conversation between the then Jaish-e-Mohammad chief of Kashmir , Mufti Waqas , and Ansar Ghazwatul Hind chief, Zakir Musa, was released by al Qaeda ’s media platform. In the said conversation Mufti Waqas tells Musa that he has been to Afghanistan and fought there, “I swear the sacrifices,” he says, “that Kashmiris have given are unparalleled, but this nation has got traitor leaders.” Jaish is a pro- Pakistan militant outfit, and in conflict with the AGH ideology. Here Mufti Waqas is talking in personal capacity because he understood that the Jihadi project run by Pakistan and its proxies in Kashmir is a business for both of them. In the same conversation he raises suspicion on the killing of many Jaish commanders in Kashmir saying that those who understood the tehreek in Kashmir get killed.  Mufti Waqas was killed in 2018. His audio conversation w...

 i nam ul rehman In the year 1991, as Kashmir was slumped into an attritional war against the state of India, apart from bodies falling, strikes and curfew became a new norm in the Valley.  During these days with schools, and colleges closed staying indoors was a perfect recipe. It was during these days that I started to take interest in a sports magazine which my siblings used to relish. It was an Urdu magazine “ Akbar-i-Naujawan ” primarily focused on sports but had a segment on literature, and was published from New Delhi. Although my siblings brought it to read literature I read it for sports feature. The good thing about this magazine was that it provided healthy coverage to the Pakistan cricket team . In one such issue there was an interview of cricketer Ramiz Raja . When asked to name his favourite bowler he names three instead of one, but when he was asked about batsman he replied one and only Viv Richards , and mentions one of a reason of him not wearin...