View Point

Naveed Qazi
Fatalities in Kashmir are fast reaching a six-digit figure, yet the increasing levels do not seem to stimulate desire for a genuine peace process on the part of both hostile neighbors. In spite of this unfortunate fact, the world has seen civilized solutions to conflict and one of the prime examples is vested in the Good Friday Agreement.
It has been held up as good practice in resolving the Kashmir dispute, principally by Sumantra Bose, in his book, Contested Lands because the arrangement respects the variance of overall sentiment.

Devika Mittal
Every day, at 4, in a village called Wagah, there is a mad rush. People try to form a straight line which will extend to a kilometer or two. It involves pushing around, shouting and hurling abuses. It also involves people in uniform who continuously shout at people who don’t mind it. People are eager to be in the front of the line, even though there is enough space for everyone.

Arshid Hamid Khan
Mental unease creates psychological disorder. Many reasons are there which take an abrupt birth to push a person in to the snare of difficulties like disrespect of religion, lack of faith and belief in God. That moment of perplex ion debars the normal function of a mind and no way appears to get rid out from such dark dilapidated situation.

Hameed Nabi
Just like voices in hills echo back, unrest in J&K is always followed by nomination of interlocutors by Centre to fill in the vacuum of intra-communication channels both within the state as well as with India. The 2010 summer unrest in Kashmir led to nomination of interlocutors by the government of India. For more than two years they traversed the length and breadth of the state holding wide ranging interaction with different sections of people from all the three regions.

Mohammad Shafi Ayaz
Tuition centres in the valley are mushrooming. Some time back, there were only few such centres in Srinagar city or elsewhere in some other major town of the valley.  But by now the number of these tuition centre’s has shot up by multifold and we see that in every small or big town and even in villages such centre’s have been set up mostly by in service teachers.

Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai
The fiftieth session of "the United Nations Commission on Social Development" (CSocD) held in New York in 2012 unanimously approved its priority theme of 'Poverty Eradication.' I agree with the theme and I think that the issue of global social development is the issue of the century. Never before have so many suffered amidst liberty and luxury for the few.

Tahir Ahmad
The word 'Civil society' appears a straightforward notion to few, it is ambiguous and devious to many. The simple way to define it is a distinctive third front between state and private organisations that forms an impeccable and inalienable part of society, that has ability to perceive and fight to safeguard the human rights, environmental disaster, be a anti-corruption crusader or a labour help.

Ishtiyaq Sibtian Joo
They wore a sad tragic look. Each one of them was turning his head away to prevent from being seeing. For them recognition now was synonymous to shame. Their voices had lost the hoarseness which used to send shiver down any grown-ups spine. The young lot was planning to migrate. This I came to know later on. They caught hold of me, to make people aware for their reason of migration, while I was leaving my office late evening.

Imtiyaz Ahmad
Prof Abdul Gani Bhat is a maverick who instead of following the conventions believes in breaking them. He, more often than once, has found himself surrounded by controversies. Last year he created a flutter in separatists circles when he declared that two separatists leaders Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone were killed not by Indian security agencies as was the common assumption but by ‘our own people.

Amir Suhail Wani and Adfar Rashid Shah          
Human history has evolved as a perpetual response to natural mysteries and the methodologies invoked to investigate the cosmic mystery which has shown fluctuation from time to time. One of the antique methods to grasp reality, in essence, is of mysticism that is purely subjective, non-demonstrable,

Sami Sofi
Man did all to prove himself free from divine influence. He thought he is liberal, he made totems of equality, he dubbed himself the master of his destiny, he did all without having a least regard for the nature.

Nayeem Shah
Journalism has lost its validity and reliability today. Journalistic ethics are constantly eroded by those practising it. Media sets the agenda for future. Today if the view presented is influenced and jaundiced, it will create havoc for tomorrow. Be it Kashmir issue or hanging of Afzal Guru, the Indian channels do call the civil society members at the discussions but then they are given the least opportunity to make their point. Instead the whole discussion sometimes seems to be rambling and jumping to the conclusions rather than reaching at some good consensus.

Dr. Arif Maghribi

Kashmir holds the dubious distinction of having the largest number of passive smokers. Lot of research has been done in Kashmir on smoking. One of the best scientific researches has been done by famous Psychiatrist Dr.Mushtaq Marghoob, in his book “The menace of drug-abuse in Kashmir” he writes that there are 24.32 lakh substance abusers in Kashmir, including tobacco users.

Dr.Khalid Ul Rehman Hakeem
Genetically modified (GM) crops were promoted as a ray of hope to increase yield and solve the problems of hunger among the nations. Yet the evident reports find these crops failed to increase yields, rather they were known to endorse superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides. According to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.

Syed Arshad Kashani

Sword has found a significant role in human history but it is presented as if only Muslims have used it frequently. History vows that it is used more by those who have put this world in absolute darkness. When their brutality was repulsed in the past by the likes of Nooruddin Zangi (RA), Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi (RA), they used other possible options to malign the Muslims. What they did in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Pakistan is enough to expose their hypocrisy.