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  • Hyderabad police books repeat sex offender under PD act

    Hyderabad police books repeat sex offender under PD act

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    Hyderabad: Rachakonda Police on Thursday takes preventive measures against a repeat sexual offender by apprehending him under PD Act. He was sent to Central Prison, Cherlapally.

    Medaboina Yakesh aka Yaku, a resident of BNThimmapuram, Bhongir District, is a lorry driver.

    According to the police, Yakesh stalked, harassed, and indulged in outraging the modesty of minor girls. He pursued them with promises of marriage and intimidated them when rejected.

    Two cases were previously registered against him for harassing a girl. One in 2015 at Bhongir Town police station and another in 2018 at Abdullapur police station for stalking the same girl.

    He was being prosecuted in these cases when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl. He intimidated the parents of the minor.

    He was arrested by Bhongir Rural police and was remanded to judicial custody on January 7.

    The Rachakonda Police Commissioner initiated a PD act on him and sent him to the Cherlapally jail with the view to maintaining public order.

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  • A Lake Exploration

    A Lake Exploration

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    A cultural anthropologist gives time to Kashmir’s famed Dal Lake and generates an impressive piece of literature, writes Insha Shirazi

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    Michael J Casimir’s The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir is a thorough and instructive exploration of one of the most exquisite and significant bodies of water. The lake has natural and cultural significance. Well known for its beauty, the lake is a significant source of income.

    Casimir paints a clear picture of how the lake has been shaped over the centuries and how it still matters for contemporary culture and ecology. A professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Cologne, Casimir has spent a lot of time in the field studying ecology, economy, and environmental management.

    The book goes into great length on the lake’s intricate ecosystem, the history of houseboats, and water transportation. It offers details about the evolution of tourism and its literal paralysis owing to political upheaval in the 1980s and 1990s. While detailing Kashmir’s transition to Islam, the book offers a sketch of Kashmir’s “caste systems”, sectarianism, marital customs and social structure.

    The book dives into the ins and outs of Dal Lake while detailing its ecosystem. It explains the development of the houseboat and water transportation.

    The key focus of the book is the exploration of the lifestyle of the Hanji people, a group of fishermen living in the lake and how they play an essential role in the advancement of culture, the economy, and aesthetics. He provides an in-depth look at the Lake market gardens, raised fields, and floating gardens, and how the residents make an artificial landscape on the water and plant vegetables, flowers, weeds, and water lilies.

    The book explains how market gardeners plan their gardens based on weather trends and how the 2014 flood affected the growth of the lake.  Offering interesting insights into intriguing lotus gardens, the book explains how the lotus rhizomes are a source of revenue. An interesting and engaging read, the book provides an enlightening and informative look into the lives of the Hanjis and how essential they are to the economy and ecology of Srinagar city.

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    A man clears snow from the roof of his houseboat during heavy snowfall at river Jehlum in Srinagar

    The Houseboats

    Detailing the history and evolution of the houseboats, the book does not forget to link the other economies and offer a window to explain how modern technologies like the cell phone has impacted space.  It offers an unbiased examination of the impacts of human-driven development on the ecology of the lake and its inhabitants, exploring both the positive and negative effects. He also provides a thorough discussion of the lake’s many fish species, vegetation, and water birds, as well as the issue of sewage pollution. The author offers insight into the lake’s ecology and how it has changed over the centuries as a result of human-driven development.

    The Pollution

    Off late, the lake has been facing severe environmental issues due to the unregulated construction of various buildings on its banks, and the overuse of fertilizers for agricultural purposes. Massive concentration of fertilizers has resulted in the death of many native fish and aquatic species, including the now incredibly rare Schizothorax niger.

    The government has relocated many of the local fishermen. It has made efforts to improve the lake’s condition, such as implementing sewage treatment programmes and providing better access to roads, basic sanitation, and quality education. Flagging the issues facing the lake, particularly its deterioration due to sedimentation, domestic sewage, and other human activities, the author has observed that success is eluding the policymakers.

    Painting a grim picture of Lake’s future, the author believes that proper funding and support from the government can help the water body to regain its pristine status. The author argues that the political forces in power often have conflicting interests, and this can lead to the people of Kashmir being disconnected from their spiritual roots. To protect the iconic Lake, the author argues that both the public and the governing authorities must engage in actions that uphold the teachings of Islam. This will not only preserve the natural beauty of the lake and its surroundings but also preserve the culture and spiritual identity of the region. To achieve this goal, it is crucial that the general public cooperates with the government and that the government implements its policies in a manner that serves the best interests of the people.

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  • Hyderabad: 16-year-old girl raped by two youths; Dabeerpura police books case

    Hyderabad: 16-year-old girl raped by two youths; Dabeerpura police books case

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    Hyderabad: In yet another rape case in Hyderabad, a 16-year-old girl become the victim of a sexual offense. She was raped by two youths including a minor.

    As per the details of the case, a few days ago, a 16-year-old boy befriended the girl and later, asked her to come to a place in Mailardevpally, Hyderabad.

    When the girl reached the place, the boy’s elder brother who is 21 years joined them. Later, both the boy and his elder brother allegedly raped the girl in a room on Friday.

    She was reportedly confined in the room on Friday night. The next day, she was allowed to go back home.

    Though the youths threatened her from disclosing anything, the girl gathered courage and informed her parents.

    After knowing about the heinous crime, the parents decided to approach the police and lodge a complaint against the youths.

    Based on the complaint, the police registered a case against the youths. They were booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act as the girl is a minor.

    Though Dabeerpura police registered the case, later, it was transferred to Mailardevpally police station.

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  • Abdu Rozik books an entire theatre to watch SRK’s ‘Pathaan’

    Abdu Rozik books an entire theatre to watch SRK’s ‘Pathaan’

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    Mumbai: Former ‘Bigg Boss 16’ contestant and Tajikistani sensation Abdu Rozik booked an entire cinema hall in Mumbai to watch Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s action entertainer ‘Pathaan’.

    A clip shared by celebrity paparazzi, Viral Bhayani on Instagram, shows Abdu all excited and dancing to ‘Jhoome Jo Pathaan’ in the theatre. He even did the hook step from the number picturised on SRK and Deepika Padukone.

    He was heard saying: “Shah Rukh Sir we want to meet you, only you. We booked the whole cinema to watch Pathaan, for dancing, masti… Bohut maza hai bro.”

    Abdu is all set to make a debut in Hindi cinema with Salman Khan’s upcoming film ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’. He is just 19, and is a sensation on social media. He has also lent his vocal prowess for his numbers such as ‘Chota bhaijaan’ and ‘Pyaar’.

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  • Waqf Board Member Books Under Section 420

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    SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board member, Sohail Kazmi, was on Wednesday booked for duping unemployed youth on pretext of government job.

    As per information received, a case under FIR number 12/2023 under section 420 IPC has been registered against Sohail Qazmi at Police Station Peermitha, Jammu.

    Quoting sources the news agency KNO reported that Dr K L Sharma filed a written complaint that Sohail Kazmi duped the unemployed youth of Rs 5 lakhs  from the complainant in lieu of providing the fourth class job in government department in 2021.

    “When the candidate was not selected then the complainant approached to Kazmi and requested to repay the amount of Rs 5 Lakh but the accused refused to repay the said amount.”

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  • Nuclear Conflict?

    Nuclear Conflict?

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    Mike Pompeo, former US Secretary of State has claimed that India and Pakistan were on the brink of a nuclear war in wake of the surgical strikes in 2018, an issue that the US settled in a night that he will never forget

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    US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on Monday tried their hands at spinning the ‘charkha’ (spinning wheel) at the Sabarmati Ashram Ahmedabad Gujarat. Pic: ANI

    The Balakot surgical strike on February 27, 2018, had triggered a serious diplomatic crisis and was heading towards a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. This is precisely what Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has claimed in his memoir Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.

    “I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019. The truth is, I don’t know precisely the answer either; I just know it was too close,” Pompeo wrote.

    Then in Hanoi, Vietnam, for negotiations between North Korean leader and Trump, the Indo-Pak tensions flared after a militant blew up an explosive-laded vehicle hitting a CRPF convey killing more than forty paramilitary personnel on February 14. In retaliation, Indian Air Force flew bombers during the night of February 27 and 28, hitting Balakot, a key Jaish formation. A day later, there was a dogfight between the rival fighters as a result of which India lost a fighter jet and its pilot was caught (later returned). Pakistan Air Force also bombed various spots inside Jammu and Kashmir.

    Talking about the call that he received from his counterpart, then Sushma Swaraj, Pompeo wrote that he was informed that “Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons” and India was also “contemplating its own escalation”.

    “I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out. I began to work with Ambassador Bolton, who was with me in the tiny secure communications facility in our hotel,” Pompeo wrote. “I reached the actual leader of Pakistan, General Bajwa, with whom I had engaged many times. I told him what the Indians had told me. He said it wasn’t true. As one might expect, he believed the Indians were preparing their nuclear weapons for deployment. It took us a few hours—and remarkably good work by our teams on the ground in New Delhi and Islamabad—to convince each side that the other was not preparing for nuclear war. No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome.”

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    Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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    The Ministry of External Affairs Ministry in Delhi has avoided reacting to the revelation. At the same time, Pompeo has asserted that he actually worked with NSA Ajit Doval and the then foreign secretary, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who later in May 2019, became the Foreign Minister of India.

    In his book, Pompeo has showered praises on Jaishankar’s capacity and knowledge – a man speaking seven languages, English “somewhat better than mine”, professional, rational, and a “fierce defender of his boss and his country”. However, Pompeo has termed Swaraj, a “goofball and a heartland political hack”. Jaishanker has strongly reacted to this and termed it “disrespectful” to his predecessor.

    India versus Pakistan

    While Pompeo’s book is an idea about Trump’s world order, it offers many details about the Indian subcontinent, especially India and Pakistan.

    Indian leaders, Pompeo writes are “intently focused every minute on their bête noire of Pakistan” because the nuclear power controlled by its military and Islamist-sympathizing intelligence services presents a significant strategic and a terroristic threat to India. “Every action I took with respect to Pakistan—a trip or a phone call or a comment—was sure to result in a message saying that Prime Minister Modi or Foreign Minister Jaishankar wanted to speak. They were relentless and appropriately so,” the book reads.

    Great Allies

    At the same time, however, Pompeo has staked credit for ensuring a shift in India’s foreign policy that has always “charted its own course without a true alliance system, and that is still mostly the case” and has never remained tilted either towards USSR or the USA.

    Pompeo sees the China angle as the key to a change. A strong ally of Pakistan, the Chinese army clubbed 20 soldiers in a skirmish in Ladakh. “That bloody incident caused the Indian public to demand a change in their country’s relationship with China. India also banned TikTok and dozens of Chinese apps as part of its response,” Pompeo wrote.

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    India’s foreign minister speaking to the UN general assembly on September 29, 2018

    Offer details of a shift in US foreign policy, Pompeo – who was CIA chief before becoming Secretary of State, wrote that American diplomacy put Tokyo at the centre of its Asia policy and viewed Seoul as its primary location for geostrategic reach, which neglected India.

    “Its population rivals that of China. We are natural allies, as we share a history of democracy, a common language, and ties of people and technology. India is also a market with enormous demand for American intellectual property and products. These factors, plus its strategic location in South Asia, made India the fulcrum of my diplomacy to counteract Chinese aggression,” explained Pompeo. “In my mind, a counter-China bloc made up of the United States, India, Japan, Australia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the European Union would have an economic weight at least three times that of China. I chose to devote serious quantities of time and effort to help make India the next great American ally.”

    This was the key reason why India joined Quad, according to the book. However, certain inherent limitations remain. These include India’s inherent dislike for alliances, a deeply protectionist and state-directed economy, Russian weaponry and its trading relationship and a long international border with China. These issues limit “India’s appetite for risk”.

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  • CBI books imposter posing as IAS officer in PMO

    CBI books imposter posing as IAS officer in PMO

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    New Delhi: The CBI has registered a case against one Ankit Kumar Singh for allegedly impersonating a secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) handling the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency and seeking favours from senior government officials.

    The federal agency acted on a complaint from Assistant Director in PMO Anil Kumar Sharma, officials said.

    The case has been handed over to the CBI’s Special Crime unit, headed by Joint Director Viplav Kumar Choudhry, who was awarded the President Police Medal for distinguished service on Republic Day, they added.

    In its complaint, Sharma has accused Singh of claiming himself to be Dinesh Rao, a 1997-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre, and posted as a secretary in the PMO who looks after Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh.

    “His mobile number is 9454008098 and he is learnt to have contacted Prabhu Narayan Singh, District Magistrate, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, seeking favours for ‘his constituency’. Prima facie, it appears to be a case of impersonation as a PMO official since no official by this name is posted in this office,” Sharma said.

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  • Revealing Little

    Revealing Little

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    Amarjit Singh Dulat is one of the many Kashmir specialists. He has handled Kashmir in the capacity of a senior IB officer and later as RAW Chief. Even later when he was in the Vjapyee’s PMO, he was one of the Kashmir-literate officials. In his memoir, the top spook has not revealed much barring upholding a strong case against the muscular policy in action, writes Masood Hussain

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    Amarjit Singh Dulat has the distinction of operating from Srinagar at a time when Kashmir was, what he said, “unlivable”. The situation was changing very fast and the morning news would be a stale piece of information around noon. The interesting facet of the situation was that nobody had predicted the eruption of militancy.

    As head of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in Kashmir, they had a DySP rank officer, Sapru deputed to the IB. When the bombs started exploding here and there, Dulat once asked Sapru, what was happening around them. The response was interesting: “This is nothing really, all this going and coming is a routine in Kashmir. Nothing for you to worry about.”

    Subsequently, it proved beyond a point that Kashmir has changed fundamentally. Even the IB lost some of Dulat’s subordinates in targeted and pinpointed killings within and outside Srinagar. This triggered a crisis. One day the IB staffers assembled on the lawns of the Gupkar office and sought his permission to leave Kashmir. As was expected, he refused the permission point blank.

    “I absolutely understood their panic,” Dulat wrote in his memoir, A Life In The Shadows. “Loneliness can drive you to do and say all kinds of things, and out in the field, whether you are undercover or not, situations develop fast and teach you lessons that no amount of time on the desk can.”

    Despite the fact that he heading the key intelligence agency at a time when Kashmir was changing and Kashmiri Pandits migrated en mass, he is willing to give Jagmohan – who hated his guts – a benefit of the doubt. “..I will say that he had nothing to do with it,” Dulat wrote. “In the midst of all the bloodshed he witnessed when he returned, he did not want the Kashmiri Pandits to be targetted – and hence, he was equally happy to see them leave.”

    Picking The Game

    Though Dulat was a senior officer and had many postings within and outside the North Block-run Bureau, he gives Kashmir the credit for offering him real training. He admitted that Kashmir taught him the “real game of intelligence”. It was on basis of his understanding of Kashmir that he has been able to create his own doctrine that revolves around talking and building bridges and not violence.

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    A S Dulat’s Memoir, A Life In Shadows (2023)

    It was on the ground that he felt the net difference in seeing Kashmir from Delhi. Areas like Kashmir cannot be seen in the black and white as Delhi used to see it because the valley is “mostly grey and constantly in need of empathy, compassion and compromise”. That explains why “Kashmiri leaders talk a different language in Kashmir and a different language in Delhi.”

    Talks, he believes, is the only way out. “I see no better way to gather intelligence than by talking to people,” he wrote. Kashmir taught him that “the gun is the most counterproductive means to an end,” an observation that eventually crystallised his line of thought: “We will all die by the gun, so why not talk?”

    Dulat’s memoir has many references to anonymous Kashmiris who would meet him off and on, sometimes even without a formal appointment. Some of them, according to him, were scoundrels, Pakistani agents, who would come to him with stories. Rascals, Dulat has written, are the best agents. “My point is – yeh Pakistan ke liye kaam karta hai might be true – but does not that make him all the more important to us?”

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    When a former spook wrote a book, he runs the risk of compromising security. That is why there are no impressive anecdotes of his days in Kashmir as IB top man and with Kashmir as RAW chief.

    The book has confirmed yet again that Rajesh Pilot as the central minister was routinely talking to JKLF in Srinagar and continued to keep the windows open even though the governor General (retired) K V Krishna Rao disliked him and his activities. Later, when he failed to settle Kashmir, Dulat wrote, Pilot wanted to depute Punjab DGP, KPS Gill to Kashmir, an idea Dulat and many others discouraged.

    The book reveals that he was, as is already known in touch with almost all the separatist leaders. However, Yasin Malik disliked him. Once when he met him at a safe house, Dulat wrote, Malik leaned back in his chair, swinging his boots up onto the table.

    That, however, was not the case with Hurriyat leaders who even met Ajit Doval, now NSA, at Dulat’s residence. He has mentioned an interesting anecdote. “Once, there were two guys on opposite sides of the Hurriyat spectrum who showed up at the same time and were, understandably, rather miffed at seeing each other. One of them asked me, in an aggrieved fashion: Iske samne mujhe kyun bulaya? I said: I did not call you; you came yourself. And I did not invite him either; he too came on his own. Now you manage.”

    The book has many references to his meetings with Shabir Shah, whom he describes as the “cult figure” and “people’s hero” in the 1990s. Then, he wrote the top priority was to arrest him and it took the IB a year to locate his whereabouts and finally arrest him at Ramban in August 1990 when he was on his way to Poonch and cross over, Nayeem Khan accompanied him. When Dulat rang Dr Farooq Abdullah, who had resigned earlier in the year, he said: “Yeh toh Kamaal ho gaya.”

    In the subsequent days, the security set-up remained in touch with Shah and gave him “importance”. The book offers sketchy details about how Dulat got the IB to agree to escort Shah to the Nepal border where he wanted to meet Mehmood Sagar. Dulat told his boss: “Let us see what he brings back to us”. However, the IB decided against it at the last moment leaving a furious Shah to sulk in Jammu and later when Dulat met him, Shah complained: “I tell you everything, but you do not trust us. If you do not trust us, how can we have a relationship?”

    It was this sentiment that Mirwaiz echoed in one of his interactions with Dulat: “You accuse us Kashmiris of lying, but we have learnt it from you”.

    Dulat reveals that Shah was being encouraged to participate in the 1996 elections. The top officer wrote that Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao was told that but it, might have happened in 2002, if not 1996. When persuaded, Shah agreed to talk. When Dulat briefed the Prime Minister, he was sent to Finance Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh. After hearing Dulat, he asked a simple question: Does Dr Farooq Abdullah knows it?

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    If Dulat writes or talks, it invariably ends up in Kashmir and in that talk, Dr Farooq Abdullah is always the hero.

    In 1986 when Dr Abdullah signed an accord with Rajiv Gandhi, Giani Zail Singh, the then president commented: “This will be the beginning of the end of Farooq Abdullah. He will go the same way as Longwal.”

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    Dulat’s Kashmir Book, Vajpayee Years (2015)

    Later during his posting in Srinagar, Dulat became a friend of Dr Abdullah and that was the reason why he was packed off to Delhi later. Dulat writes that while grooming Farooq for his future role, Sheikh Abdullah had told him: politics is like jumping into the Jhelum and swimming against the tide. “As I was to discover, Farooq decided to go with the flow, instead of swimming against the tide,” wrote Dulat, who added that when Dr Abdullah was a member of Dr Manmohan Singh’s cabinet – the man who shelved talks with Shabir Shah in 1996, he was never asked about Kashmir. In 1990, Dr Abdullah had told Dulat: “I have not gone into politics to spend my life in jail. Whoever is in power in Delhi, I am with them. We will remain with Delhi”

    Disliked by Mufti Sayeed, Dulat has written that the PDP was reported to have been set up with the help of Doval and with the blessings of Delhi, especially Advani. However, he sees it just as a story.

    Now, Dulat argues against the naysayers that PDP is finished. “I have always felt that she is still relevant” and has advised his friend, Dr Abdullah, the PAGD boss: “Do not let her go”.

    Dulat was the only top person who was flown to meet Dr Abdullah and found him missing his golf. “Remove him from the political arena and all you will have left are pygmies, we might regret that one day,” argues Dulat.

    Muscular Policy

    It is against the backdrop of his understanding of Kashmir that Dulat argues against the muscular policy. Building his argument that it was the pro-engagement policy in Delhi, which he supported, that led to at least two rounds of formal talks with the separatists. In 1994, a group of erstwhile militant leaders had agreed to engage with the government and to meet them Home Secretary flew to Srinagar. Later, in 2003, the NDA government led by Atal Behari Vajpayee met the Hurriyat leaders so his Deputy, Lal Kishan Advani.

    “I cannot imagine, for instance, an Atal Behari Vajpayee or a Manmohan Singh implementing this policy,” Dulat believes. “But now, it is a different ball game, and one sometimes gets the impression that the IB is out of it”. Interestingly, he has written that when he was RAW chief, he retained Kashmir and it upset the IB. He told the then IB Chief: “As long as I am in the RAW, Kashmir will stay with me.”

    Admitting that this was not the first time when the muscular policy is in vogue, Dulat sees the abandoning of the idea of engagement as preventing the mainstreaming of Kashmir and denying the security set-up the hardcore information. “Today’s more muscular policy hampers the process of engaging with separatists or, indeed, with the possibility of using militants as potential agents.”

    Dulat sees the muscular policy as the paranoia of Pakistan. “So, what is happening in the face of this new muscular policy is the radicalisation of Kashmir. I would call that a failure of our policies in Kashmir.”

    Kashmir Situation

    The former RAW chief sees the Kashmir situation as a response to this policy. “The nightmare in the Kashmir mind has changed. It is the nightmare of being reduced to a minority in their own land. It is not something that is openly said, but it is a fear that hangs over them like a shadow,” Dulat wrote. “What the collective Kashmiri psyche fears most is chaos. Hence it is always pleading for India-Pakistan peace.”

    The policy consequences are beyond that. When a muscular policy spills over the boundary between force and sheer harassment, people including politicians prefer self-preservation as it is natural. He admits alienation and hatred in Kashmir. “The boys I speak to on occasions tell me that nobody wants Azadi, but nobody wants Pakistan either. They are currently dying in the name of Allah,” he wrote.

    With Geelani, whom he terms as “Pakistan’s last man standing in Kashmir”, gone, Dulat wants engagement, the only way to mainstream Kashmir. “The Hurriyat as it existed is dead, all that remains is Mirwaiz Umer Farooq who was always different from the others and should now be more than ready to enter the mainstream.”

    Interestingly, Dulat sees in Kashmir, an exaggerated feeling of oppression and victimhood. On the reading down of Article 370, his argument is simple: “why deprive Kashmir – and the Kashmiris – of their long fig leaf of dignity”. He asserts that Article 370 is done and dusted. “Rhetoric aside, the Kahmsiris are by and large reconciled to it so long as they do not feel a sense of defeat,” he observes.

    Dulat has been a frequent Kashmir visitor and one of the many people whose observations matter. On Srinagar streets, he writes he felt murmurs of the two-nation theory. When he met Dr Abdullah, he brought it up with him and was told: “I am aware of it, but it is the same people, those bloody Jamaatis”.

    Dulat, in his book, walks the talk that has been there even before 1846. “If you threaten him, a Kashmiri will lie down, he might even play dead. But given the chance, he will rise again,” Dulat wrote. “Often I have observed this curious mix of aggrieved oppression and defiance: you might discriminate against them, you might not give them their due, but in the face of repression, they will get back on their feet again. Of necessity, Kashmir has learned over the years to be devious. It is, for them the key to survival. They will not trust you easily, and they will trust each other not at all. As Brajesh Mishra often used to say – the only thing straight in Kashmir is the poplar tree.”

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  • Einstein Box Gift Set for Babies, Newborns and Infants of Age 1-3-6-9-12 Months | High Contrast Gift Set with Set of Rattles+ High Contrast Books+ High Contrast Flashcards| for Baby Boys & Girls

    Einstein Box Gift Set for Babies, Newborns and Infants of Age 1-3-6-9-12 Months | High Contrast Gift Set with Set of Rattles+ High Contrast Books+ High Contrast Flashcards| for Baby Boys & Girls

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    High Contrast Flashcards: Designed for babies 4 weeks to 12 months: research has shown that babies are sensitive to black and white color; these black and white high contrast cards are good for babies’ eyesight and cognitive development: Flashcards also help babies improve their knowledge and ability to understand and improve visual memory.
    Rattle Toys: For Auditory Stimulation of Your Baby; Rattles provide a source of stimulation. Babies like the sounds they produce and follow the path of the rattle with their eyes, as well as giving them a sense of discovery as they try to grab and hold the rattle, thereby developing their fine motor skills. Experts in child development believe they help infants improve hand eye coordination by stimulating their senses.
    High Contrast Book: When babies are born, they see in black and white. This high contrast board book uses familiar settings and objects to present shapes and patterns in contrasting black and white images.
    CHILD SAFE, DESIGNED BY PARENTS: Einstein Box has been designed by parents for parents specifically keeping in mind your babies brain development. The items in this set are absolutely non-toxic and child safe.

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