Mir Junaid

LET INDIA NOT ASSUME THE ROLE OF CONSCIENCE KEEPER OF TALIBAN’S AFGHANISTAN

September 8, 2021

Indian media and Realpolitik are like two banks of a canal that never meet. The US having stationed its military might in Afghanistan for two decades chose to leave for her own geopolitical strategies; never addressed the Taliban as terrorists. The US still deals with the Taliban. No world power...

NOT A FACADE AT ALL: KASHMIRIS EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE

January 5, 2021

I went through a story published in the Financial Times titled “‘This is all a facade’: Kashmiris vote in staged election.” The news story has been written by a journalist named Stephanie Findlay, the South Asia correspondent for the Financial Times. The story presented a very shady picture of the...

Gilgit Baltistan: The exploited orphan

July 20, 2020

Whatever be the reasons for a territory to be disputed between the two nations, the inhabitants of that territory cannot be denied basic facilities to live a civilised life; even if that territory is divided between the two for whatever reasons. Each truncated region as occupied remains under the control...