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Assam: Identity and grievances The ferment in Assam is the superficial manifestation of a discontent that is much deeper than what is seen outside as sentiments aroused by the question, "who is an Assamese?" WHO is an Assamese? This is one of those silly and argument-stopping questions...

Dacca, City of the Dead Within hours after launching a tank-led offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangla Desh (Bengal State) by expelling foreign newsmen. TIME correspondent Dan...

Uprooted in the Northeast:The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession by Sanjib Baruah In Meghalaya in 1997, the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, which has constitutional jurisdiction over Khasi 'customary law', passed the Khasi Social Custom of Lineage...

Kashmiri Students In India Face Discrimination By Rama Lakshmi The Washington Post 18 June,2003 MUZAFFARNAGAR, India -- Three months ago, Ejaz Husain Jaan was just another Kashmiri student living away from home, nervously studying for his finals and taking short breaks to catch the...

The Legal Frame-Work Order- A discussion on the liberation war of Bangladesh. The (Legal Frame-Work Order (LFO) is often skipped by many individuals when any discussion comes on the liberation war of Bangladesh. It is a mystery why this important promulgation is excluded from criticism or...

LEGAL FRAMEWORK ORDER 1970 The Legal Framework Order was issued as President's Order No. 2 of 1970 by the President and Chief Martial Administrator, General A. M. Yahya Khan on March 30, 1970 in Rawalpindi. Although the Order mainly dealt with election procedures, it can still be counted as...

The Significance of the Six-Point Movement and its Impact on Bangladesh’s Struggle for Freedom and Self-determination Introduction:The historic Six-Point movement in 1966 was the turning point in Bangladesh’s quest for greater autonomy and self-determination from Pakistan’s colonial...

Dacca, City of the Dead Within hours after launching a tank-led offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangla Desh (Bengal State) by expelling foreign newsmen. TIME correspondent Dan...

Xenophobia, Kashmiri style! By Arjimand Hussain Talib 09 August, 2007 Kashmir Times It is a Catch 22 kind of situation hardly ever seen in Kashmir's chequered history. Even as both militant groups as well as Syed Ali Shah Geelani have toned down their call to migrant laborers to leave...

India's Kaoboys: In the shadow of history Claude Arpi August 06, 2007 In the sixties, one heard about the Kaulboys, a few generals gravitating around Lieutenant General B M Kaul who took over as chief of the general staff at army headquarters with Jawaharlal Nehru's blessings...

Genocide in East Pakistan The most fundamental of all rights the right of a man to come to the aid of a fellow human being is now being denied with a degree of official arrogance seldom displayed in recent history. The people of East Pakistan, who are still suffering from homelessness and...

Genocide by Pak Army Jaffer Raza In 1947, two independent states emerged on the face of the world map: India and Pakistan. Pakistan had two wings: East Pakistan and West Pakistan. The two wings had little in common other than religion. West Pakistan dominated East Pakistan in almost all...

Separatists 'kill eight in Assam' Eight people have died in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam in an attack by separatist rebels against migrant workers, police say . The United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) is suspected of carrying out Wednesday night's attack, they say...

India's 'forgotten' war By Tanya Datta BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents The UNFL is one of the largest rebel groups in the north-east More than 15 years ago, Tombi studied advertising in Delhi. These days, he is putting his communication skills to a different use in the remote Indian...

The Agony of East Pakistan: David Reed and John E. Frazer Invaded and devastated by the army of its own government, this tortured land cries out for relief and for justice. If both are not granted} still greater horrors may lie ahead They come out of East Pakistan in endless columns...

NSCN (I-M) sticks to Nagalim demand ix months after they came to India for talks, Naga leaders feel the UPA government is avoiding a resolution of the core issue of integration of Naga-inhabited areas, without which they say there could be “no solution at all” to the Naga problem, reports...

Crackdown on illegal foreign workers intensifies The Board of Investment (BoI) has intensified crackdown on foreign workers staying illegally in Bangladesh following the recent spate of bomb blasts across the country."The BoI with the help of police personnel is now actively searching the...

Pakistan: Reign of Terror Blealy-eyed from lack of sleep and emotionally drained by what they called their "ten days of terror," hundreds of Americans who had been trapped in war-ravaged East Pakistan finally got out to safety last week. Nearly 500 of them were evacuated by air from the East...

Do Not Cry For The Bombay Riot Victims! By Subhash Gatade ("You have a big heart." Vilasrao Deshmukh is learnt to have told Balasaheb Thackeray. The Sena chief's response : " I have a big heart indeed, but people fail to understand this." _ Indian Express, July 19, 2007) (Mohite says...

Kashmiris want Peace, Azadi by Amit Chakraborty Almost all Srinagar residents want peace, azadi, and an end to the authoritarianism of Indian forces. AMIT CHAKRABORTY, who observed the recently-concluded elections in J&K, explains why the polls were a farce, and how the will of the people...