Javaid Trali

Ironically, even when the identity of the killers and their motivations are known and clear, a deliberate attempt is being made to create ambivalence around their identity by calling them…

Looking back over the past 30 years, the people of J&K have witnessed enough instances of coordination breakdowns among institutions/functionaries. Javaid Trali If peace and stability in Jammu and Kashmir…

New Delhi’s ‘anti-militancy policy’ with regard to Jammu and Kashmir is based on the hypothesis that ‘persistent militarized intervention’ is the only means of defeating what it calls ‘Pakistan-sponsored’ or…

The heightened tensions at the Sino-Indian border at the far end of the arid desert of Ladakh has sent ‘’war words’’ across. Even Nepal border gave rise to a ‘tiff’. Borders with Pakistan have turned bloody. Now, China has claimed a major portion of Galwan valley. Whose failure is it? Javaid Trali and Touseef Raina tell us the answers.

This evening, as militants killed another cop down south; it reaffirmed our belief that Killers operate with motives. Harmed by

Caught between the millstones of political and structural violence for over thirty years now, Kashmir has been waiting for peace, even for the ‘negative peace’ for the grind to end somewhere and somehow.  ‘Negative peace’ or simply put, the ‘absence of violence’, is the first imperative to move towards building a somewhat stable and sustainably peaceful future.