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6 Seats To Jammu, 1 To Kashmir Is Unacceptable - by Omar Abdullah
If these recommendations remain unchanged, we will announce our future course of action; needless to say, we will not put our signatures to a report that is so deeply flawed.
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Opinion: Call Me What You Like, Don't Disrespect My Colleagues' Sacrifices - By Omar Abdullah
Say what you like about me because I really don't care but you'll have to go over me to disrespect my colleagues' sacrifices.
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Opinion: No, Mehbooba Mufti, Islam Does Not Mean Terrorism
I dont grudge Mehbooba her newfound liberalism and ultra-nationalism. Also, I understand her compulsion as an ally of the BJP to equate Islam with terror.
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Opinion: So Mehbooba Mufti Caved In Completely With The BJP
Finally, it has come to pass and Ms. Mehbooba Mufti has been elected the leader of the People's Democratic Party Legislative Party.
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Opinion: Omar Abdullah On Discovering A Secret Flight And Meeting
Before I get to the part about things that go bump in the night, let me start by how I came across the "ghoulies and ghosties".
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Opinion: Open Letter To Mehbooba Mufti From Omar Abdullah
"The people of the state cannot be expected to wait for you to make up your mind."
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Opinion: Pathankot Shows We Have Learnt No Lessons
I've been holding off on writing this piece for more than 36 hours now. I didn't feel it would be appropriate to sit down and analyse the fallout of an attack that was still being responded to by our security forces. It's been a long 60 hours since news of the attack first came in.
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Opinion: I Support Modi's Birthday Cake Move. But What Next?
What India-Pakistan relationship needs is a sustained dialogue, with small steps taken to achieve concrete results that can all add up to build confidence in the process, a process that must ultimately resolve the Kashmir issue.
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Opinion: How Modi Government Turned Hurriyat Into Stars
I'm disappointed that I was right about what the Modi government's tough stand on the Hurriyat meant for the future of any India-Pakistan dialogue. I had argued (when the Foreign Secretary level talks were called off over a Pakistani invitation to the Hurriyat in 2014) that to make Pakistan-Hurriyat engagement the reason for calling off official government talks was s...
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Opinion: Modi Government Has Lost Face, Big Time
I wish the government of India attached as much importance to not losing face as the Chinese, because today, the Modi government has lost face, big time.
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Opinion: Disrupting Parliament: How Much Is Enough?
Being the leader of a party recently voted in to opposition, I find myself asking to what extent do these tactics of disruption impress our voters?
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Opinion: Why Naved Is Not Kasab 2
Terrorism once again reared its ugly head in Jammu and Kashmir this week with an attack on a bus of the Border Security Force, killing two jawans and injuring many more.
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Opinion: Great, Pak Talks Have Resumed. But Nothing's Changed.
The story of Indo-Pak engagement is replete with the names of places - Shimla & Tashkent, Agra and Lahore spring to mind immediately. To this list of destinations, we now add another - Ufa
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Opinion: The Dangers of an Ex RAW Chief's Tell-All
For the last few days, mainstream media and social media alike have been abuzz discussing the hitherto unacknowledged aspects of the role of India intelligence agencies in Kashmir.
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Opinion: What AAP phenomenon means for Indian politics
Now that we are done falling over each other to congratulate the Aam Admi Party and showering them with largely-deserved laurels, we can perhaps spend some time to analyse what the AAP phenomenon means for politics in India.
