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R. C. Ganjoo is a senior journalist and columnist having more than 30 years experience of covering issues concerning national security, particularly Kashmir. He has worked with several prominent media groups and his articles have been published in many national and international publications.

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OPINION: Global Silence Over Human Rights Violations In China

 |  Thursday, September 14, 2023, 10:30 [IST]
Last year, on August 31, 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) brought out the much delayed report on Xinjiang, in which it expressed concern over the worsening human rights conditions in China. On the ...

OPINION: Pakistan Elections May Turn Out To Be A Farce

 |  Monday, August 28, 2023, 18:09 [IST]
Elections have lost the relevance in Pakistan because its army has reduced the political system to naught. ​H​owever, the political parties and the people of Pakistan are anxiously waiting for outcome of elections which are now due.  It is widely believed that the ...

OPINION: Politics, As Well As Economy, Of Pakistan In Army's Grip

 |  Monday, August 14, 2023, 13:37 [IST]
Elections scheduled in Pakistan few months later have come under cloud as the army has surreptitiously succeeded in controlling the political system and economic policy as well. The planning of the elections has been designed in the fashion proposed by the ...

OPINION: Northeast India Affected By Narco-Terrorism

 |  Thursday, August 03, 2023, 09:20 [IST]
In May 2023, Manipur was engulfed in a deadly conflict between two major communities, the Kukis and the Meiteis. The conflict was compounded by inadequate guarding of the India-Myanmar border. There have been several ways of cross-border migration from the border ...

OPINION: Clouds Of Uncertainty Looms Over Pakistan Elections

 |  Thursday, July 27, 2023, 09:36 [IST]
Pakistan is expected to hold elections for its National Assembly by October 14, 2023. On July 20, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officials announced that if the national and provincial assemblies in Sindh and Balochistan are dissolved after completing their five-year ...

OPINION: TTP rubbing salt in the wounds of Pak Army

 |  Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 10:40 [IST]
Increased attacks by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in traditionally considered Pakhtun-majority areas of Balochistan have dared the capability of the Pakistan army. It is an admitted fact that after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, TTP stepped up its attacks against Pakistan in ...

Pakistan Judiciary under pressure of Army

 |  Thursday, July 06, 2023, 22:01 [IST]
The Pakistan army is leaving no stone unturned to overpower the judiciary when the country is caught up in political and economic uncertainty. The Pakistan army has already succeeded in grabbing the political system by horns and now mounted pressure through ...

OPINION: Uncle Sam Keeping Pakistan In Good Humour

 |  Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 14:05 [IST]
It was a bold and clear message from the United States and India statement that has thrown an open challenge to counter global terrorism and unequivocally condemn terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms and manifestations. The statement has unnerved ...

OPINION: Delay In J&K Elections Giving Rise To Speculations

 |  Thursday, June 22, 2023, 11:28 [IST]
The elections in Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir have become a questionable subject in political circles as well as in public. Whether elections will be held or not has given rise to speculations and impatience. Intriguingly, the regional political parties ...

OPINION: Pak Army On Multi-Pronged Task

 |  Saturday, June 17, 2023, 10:30 [IST]
Knowing its power "under check and balance" status, the Pakistan Army semms to have formulated a multi-pronged strategy to get back its prominence in the country's political system. The misfortune of Pakistan is that not a single institution is left which ...