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منگل 25 اکتوبر 2005Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Blog Quake Day

It is Earthquake relief day through blogs. Please help in the relief efforts in South Asia as millions require our assistance.

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جمعہ 14 اکتوبر 2005Friday, October 14, 2005

Kashmir Earthquake Donations

Chapati Mystery is soliciting donations for Edhi Foundation.

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اتوار 9 اکتوبر 2005Sunday, October 09, 2005

Earthquake in Pakistan

There was a devastating earthquake in the northern parts of Pakistan and India about 24 hours ago. The epicenter of the 7.6 intensity earthquake was about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Islamabad. Latest numbers are more than "18,000 killed and 40,000 wounded.

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جمعہ 30 جولائی 2004Friday, July 30, 2004

Kargil

Via The Acorn comes this Nawaz Sharif interview about Kargil. Insisting that he was kept in the dark over Pakistan Army’s Kargil aggression, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharief has said the then Pakistan Army chief General Pervez Musharraf and...

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جمعہ 5 دسمبر 2003Friday, December 05, 2003

Hope in Conflicts?

There have been some positive developments in two major conflicts recently. I am not sure whether these will amount to much as a little progress is often followed by a lot of backtracking. But may be I’ll be proven wrong...

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پیر 1 دسمبر 2003Monday, December 01, 2003

Kashmir: More Than Terrorism

In a previous post, I wrote: […] would you acknowledge that Palestine, Chechnya and Kashmir issues are about more than just terrorism? Joshua Scholar in turn asked: What is the situation in Kashmir about? I’ve been wondering about Kashmir ever...

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پیر 17 نومبر 2003Monday, November 17, 2003

My Life in Kashmir VII

Another brother of our Colonel neighbor was an Additional District Magistrate (ADM). He visited us in mid-November and informed us that Sheikh Abdullah had been freed from prison and made Prime Minister of the state on 7th or 8th November 1947....

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ہفتہ 15 نومبر 2003Saturday, November 15, 2003

My Life in Kashmir VI

A few days later, three women came to the house we were staying in. They were the mother, sister-in-law and elder sister of my sister's friend. The sister-in-law had a deep one inch wide wound in her neck which had become septic...

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بدھ 12 نومبر 2003Wednesday, November 12, 2003

My Life in Kashmir V

Our neighbour and his brother were Colonels in Maharaja's army. They were on the border but their families were at home. Same day it came to be known that their families had planned to shift to some safer place. Our guardians requested them ...

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پیر 10 نومبر 2003Monday, November 10, 2003

My Life in Kashmir IV

Initially, Muslim majority provinces were to form Pakistan and the rest India. States were to decide their future according to wishes of their people. Baluchistan, Sind, NWFP, Punjab and Bengal were Muslim majority provinces. It was decided to divide Punjab and Bengal ...

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جمعہ 7 نومبر 2003Friday, November 07, 2003

My Life in Kashmir III

In the 1940s, every year there used to be a quarrel between Hindus and Muslims on Janam Ashtami [Hindu festival] and Miladun Nabi [Muslim festival] but the matter used to be clear within a week or so. The mischief was often started by the Sevak Sang ...

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جمعرات 30 اکتوبر 2003Thursday, October 30, 2003

My Life in Kashmir II

Jammu Tawi was a beautiful and clean town on slant of mountain. Rains were usual and after rain roads and streets used to glitter. Town of Jammu had a specialty. It had flowing waters on its three and a half sides...

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بدھ 29 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 29, 2003

My Life in Kashmir I

My great-grandfather, after getting fed up with high handedness of the British rulers of India, took refuge in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (here-after called state) from Qila Sobha Singh, District Sialkot [in the Punjab province of Pakistan and very close to Jammu ...

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My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir

So the long promised series is here. My Dad sent me his writeup about a month ago. But I have been too lazy and too busy to do much with it. He wrote it in Microsoft Word. I am going...

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جمعرات 2 اکتوبر 2003Thursday, October 02, 2003

Kashmir Photos

Disclaimer: All photographs are copyrighted by their photographers. You can visit their sites and view their galleries by clicking on the images....

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جمعرات 18 ستمبر 2003Thursday, September 18, 2003

Kashmir: Religion

Current census figures for religious affiliation in Kashmir according to the BBC are: ...

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Kashmir: Geography

Click on the map to see a larger version. Map courtesy of Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas. The red line shows the traditional boundary claimed by the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The green area is controlled...

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اتوار 24 اگست 2003Sunday, August 24, 2003

Kashmir

I am working on a few posts related to Kashmir. I can’t promise when they will be posted since I have to do a lot of research on the topic and am busy with my dissertation as well. You might...

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