Why don't Kashmiri women want to hide in bunkers during cross-border firing?
“When you’re so close to each other, in this small space, you can understand what would transpire."
Anam Zakaria
Who are the real victims of India-Pakistan tensions? It's Kashmiris
This week’s events have pushed Kashmiris back to the bunkers.
Life on the LoC: how loss and suffering have marked a generation
'When we hear any kind of noise, firecrackers at a wedding or something else, we panic.'
The UN Kashmir report is an opportunity for Pakistan to take the higher moral ground over India
However, it seems like both India and Pakistan are more interested in pulling the other nation down.
I was invited to talk on Partition. I was then told to talk on Independence as Partition 'never happened'
Partition has metamorphosed into Independence. And it is not Independence from the British, but from 'Hindu' India.
Experiencing Pakistan-India borders beyond the militarism of Wagah
There are borders that unlike Wagah blur the lines of what is home and what is enemy.
This Kashmir Day, who will stand up for Azad Kashmiris?
Will solidarity with Kashmiris extend to this side of the LoC as well, to the ‘azad’ counterpart of the ‘occupied’?
Bangladesh must come to terms with the 1971 war holistically, allowing critical discourse to flourish
The silencing and appropriation of history are two sides of the same coin and a dangerous game to play.
70 years on, India and Pakistan have successfully dehumanised each other in popular imagination
The Gujarat riots, lynchings of Muslims, attacks on Hindu temples and forced conversions are all residues of Partition.
How women in Kashmir's Neelum Valley ensured ceasefire at the LoC
They would march to the commanding officer and demand that the army cracks down on militancy.