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Barkat Bi welcomes her husband, Niaz Mohammad, who went to the Pakistan-held part of Jammu and Kashmir in 1965 leaving his family, in Jhullas village in Poonch on February 28.-

Beyond the border

Any final solution to the Kashmir problem must take into account the comparatively lesser-known realities across the LoC.

A child wounded in an explosion outside a school in Srinagar on May 12 being taken to hospital.-NISSAR AHMAD

Young victims of militancy

The children of Jammu and Kashmir have perhaps been the worst sufferers of the armed conflict that has ravaged the State since the late 1980s. A look

An election poster of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai. If the BJP were tempted to revert to its old ideology and strategy, it would merely isolate itself from the mainstream of Indian politics.-VIVEK BENDRE

BJP's problems and prospects

Over the years, the Bharatiya Janata Party has diluted its ideology to retain power. If the party is to survive now as the leader of an alternative na

A Kashmiri shikara owner prays in his shikara on the Dal Lake in Srinagar. It would be a fatal simplification to treat the Jammu and Kashmir problem as one of Hindu-Muslim relations, as Bill Clinton described it.-MUKHTAR KHAN/AP

An irrelevant model

The Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland cannot be replicated in the Jammu and Kashmir context as the relationships among the parties invol

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with DMK president M. Karunanidhi at an election campaign in Chennai. Moderating its ideology of uniform nationalism, the BJP has forged coalitions with all possible regional parties.-AFP

Communalism vs pluralism

The looming threat of fascism has its roots in religious identity-based nationalism and it can be countered by promoting subnational and supranational

The case for regional autonomy

A significant outcome of the Assembly elections is the emergence of the secular identity of Jammu.

The mosaic of Jammu and Kashmir

Any move to alter the status of Jammu and Kashmir without evolving a system that can accommodate its diversities in a democratic manner will only heig

The logic of unilateral ceasefire

UNLESS the unilateral ceasefire declared by the government in Jammu and Kashmir is supplemented by more measures, it is likely to be subjected to the

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