Once again, the MQM has walked out of the coalition, accusing the PPP of bullying tactics in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections.

Is this temporary lull in conflict a natural dip in a civilian-based insurrection, or is it a forced milieu created by the supra-authorities through their gendarmes?

It’s been more than a month now since things boiled over with excitement in Mohali, but just because life has settled down and returned to normal doesn’t mean everyone can forget the cheering by Indians during the ICC World Cup match against archrivals Pakistan. Of course, not everyone was so thrilled.

Given his support of Indian aspirations vis-à-vis a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and his silence over Kashmir, Obama’s trip to India certainly qualifies as something of a success for the host country – and an irritant for its neighbour Pakistan.

The free flow of weapons into Pakistan since the 1980s led to a tremendous increase in violence and continues to date, despite a subsequent attempt to de-weaponise the country.

Seema Kazi lends a voice to the marginalised Kashmiri women who are largely missing from the narrative of militancy and militarisation in Kashmir.

A new generation of stone-pelting freedom fighters is leading the struggle and shaping the intellectual discourse in Indian-administered Kashmir.

After a period of relative calm, Kashmir is on the boil again. Here, one writer proposes a “workable” solution to the ongoing issue from the Indian perspective.

India’s intransigence is standing in the way of peace with Pakistan, says Aamir Saeed. It needs to understand that our strained relations would only serve the cause of the terrorists.

“They should have insisted BB be kept safe and if she wasn’t, there would be hell to pay,” says Victoria Schofield.