The scenario in Kashmir has changed a lot in the last few years. In the 90s the extremists first began by claiming certain areas like Pattan as being liberated. When those areas were reclaimed by security forces the extremists started planting bombs in the valley. This stage too got over after security forces eliminated most of them. The extremists then resorted to throwing hand grenades at the forces or employing youths for this purpose and running away. Today even that stage is behind us. Now we have the stone pelters again employed by extremists who create chaos and provoke security forces into opening fire. Though these young buys (some of them are as young as nine-ten year olds) do not realize it but this is exactly what the extremists want. They want the security forces to open fire in which a few civilians get killed so that they can then exploit this anger to organize protests and create further chaos.

Posted on July 2nd, 2010 under India calling. Tags: Abdullah, design, Hurriyat, Kashmir, Omar, pelting, protests, stone. Comments: 12

As you can see things in the valley are still pretty bad. The violence levels may have come down but the people of Kashmir still have very little faith in the establishment. It is this lack of faith which is used by Hurriyat and parties like PDP to exploit any given situation to their advantage using innocent civilians as the rallying point. Omar would do well to ensure that his govt undertakes this as their main agenda for governance. He needs to transcend his sincerity into action for the people to see for themselves. Sincerity alone does not really count for much.

Posted on December 17th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: emotions, Kashmir, murder, Omar, pdp, Protest, rape, shopian. Comments: 6

What the Pakistani people and their govt fail to understand is that terror attacks within Pakistan which are killing hundreds day in and day out have got nothing to do with Kashmir or India for that matter. These attacks are however a direct fallout of America-Pak relations or lack thereof. This visit which could have been utilized by Pak to gain more trust and favor with Americans did exactly the opposite forcing Hillary to say

Posted on November 1st, 2009 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: attack, Clinton, India, Kashmir, Pak, Taliban, Terror, US. Comments: 3

After all the euphoria dies down following Barack Obama’s election as the President of USA it is actually time for each one of us to try and understand the implications of this historic event. First things first. In the immediate future there is only one thing which will dominate the proceedings

Posted on November 5th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Abkhazia, active, Afghanistan, Ahmednijad, america, approach, Bailout, bilaterally, bonhomie, Bush, buyout, campaign, Change, clock, company, concern, countries, create, doubts, dramatic, economic, euphoria, fight, financial, Georgia, Hamas, historic, house, implications, India calling, intervention, iran, Iraq, Israel, issue, jobs, Kashmir, manner, measures, Middle East, nuclear, obama, opinion, Ossetia, outsourcing, Pakistan, Palestinian, policies, positive, President, problems, progress, results, role, Ruropean, South, success, svent, Terror, Union, USA, Wall Street, war, White, wish, world. Comments: 1

Nobody gives people from north east any bhav. Nobody takes them seriously. They are just ‘chinkis’ who are supposed to be made fun of and dismissed as if they were some paltu animal. Even their women are considered to be chaalu and easy meat for most of the guys. I’m dead sure most of us will not know even the names and capitals of all these states.

Posted on October 30th, 2008 under India calling. Tags: animal, army, Assam, bank, blasts, bomb, cames, capitals, causes, China, chinkis, concern, Congress, control, countrymen, current, demography, development, disgruntled, east, feelings, fight, forces, fun, idol, ignore, illegal, immigrants, independence, Indian, integral, issues, Kashmir, Kashmiris, meat, media, mess, militants, name, noises, north, ofice, organizations, parties, patriotic, peace, playing, politicians, power, problems, profile, realized, region, score, security, situation, state, terms, terrorist, ULFA, voices, vote, win, women. Comments: 1

No they won’t unless Pakistan shuns extremism. Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said that they will carry on with the ‘war on terror’. Obama has been quite explicit about going inside Pakistan whereas

Posted on October 9th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: america, Attacks, Barrack Obama, bin Laden, Change, enhance, extremism, fightback, fighting, forces, foresee, fueled, hierarchy, Hotel, India calling, Indians, ISI, issue, John McCain, Kashmir, Mariott, operations, option, Pakistan, people, perception, percetion, public, pursue, rein, resolution, retaliate, sentiment, Terror, terrorists, troops, US, war, world, Zardari. Comments: None