“India should seize the present moment, as it will get the best possible deal from Pakistan, and time is running out,” Munir Chowdhary, a former colleague of Murtaza Bhutto, the assassinated son of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, told me at his house in Mirpur area of Pakistan controlled Jammu and Kashmir in January 2006. As Jammu & Kashmir headed …
While guns have fallen silent on Line of Control since the February 25 announcement, residents in villages along volatile frontier remain fearful. “This time there is calm, but we don’t trust these statements,” Ram told Al Jazeera, adding that similar promises in the past “never lived too long”. The February 25 ceasefire deal is also a breakthrough since relations between …
Having been in the line of fire over the years, villagers along the International Border between India and Pakistan in Jammu's R.S. While there has been no shelling from across the border in the past year, Suchetgarh village resident Lal Chand said he didn't expect the lull to last. After the Union government revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status and …
