Global disturbing disparities
Why the world must ursue development goals Ambassador Volkan Bozkir, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, put forth an ambitious agenda during his maiden speech before the world body on…
Douglas Evans Coe: A man of quiet diplomacy
“Mohtarma Bhutto and Mr Bondevik remained talking to people outside his office. I was a Nobody – but I could get his audience first. This was the height of his simplicity.” …
Kashmiri leadership and the paths to resistance
It’s another chapter in the history of liberty ‘The history of liberty is a history of resistance’ – President Woodrow Wilson Nel Noddings, eminent American educationalist wrote in Peace…
The devil is in the details
“Four-point Formula does not want to resolve the Kashmir dispute but to dissolve it.” Ambassador Yusuf Buch Abba Eban, an international diplomat, is reported to have once said, “History teaches us that…
The road goes ever on and on…
Kashmir: a road to peace or disaster? India and Pakistan have had more than 150 official rounds of talks in the last seven decades to discuss conflicts and differences between them. The by-product…
The Simla Agreement: Help or Hindrance
Some factchecking is in order The mass uprising of the people of Kashmir against Indian military occupation has evoked two reactions from the Government of India: extreme repression and the threat of…