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The Kashmir Monitor opinions section features opinion articles, editorial opinions, today's opinion, analysis and columnist & opinion stories.

BRICS 2026: India hosts a defining summit for the Global South

Sheikh Nazir Mehdi                                                                                                                           The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on 12 and 13 September 2026, has given fresh importance to a grouping that has grown far beyond its original identity. Under India’s fourth chairship, leaders from 11 member
Sep. 16, 2026
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Indus Water Treaty

Syed Showkat Indus Water Treaty was brokered by the World Bank in 1960 after years of negotiations.

Time: The Ever-Diminishing Capital

“By time. Indeed man is in loss. Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth, and recommend one another to patience.” (Al-Qur’an, 103) This
Feb. 15, 2018

War Is Not the Answer

The Day After, a 1983 film, was set in the scenario of a nuclear showdown between the US and the erstwhile USSR. Instead of painting the story on a global canvas, director
Feb. 15, 2018

Golden oldies

One of the commonplace but disconcerting things about growing older is that public figures, famous men and women, grow younger. Watching RaghuramRajan being interviewed in Davos, I googled him and discovered that
Feb. 15, 2018

It’s vendetta in Dhaka

The general election in Bangladesh is due in December this year and the leader of the main Opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, has been jailed
Feb. 15, 2018

The danger of counterfactuals

In democracies, citizens have a right to know why, where and how the government spends public money. Each year we, therefore, await the Prime Minister’s response to the President’s address in the
Feb. 14, 2018

People’s Movements in Pakistan

Challenging colonial rule, in 1936, Allama Iqbal wrote a Masnavi ‘Pas che bayed kard ai aqwam e Sharq’ (What shall we do now O people of the East?). This is the question
Feb. 14, 2018

Hugs just aren’t enough

The hug-and-talk diplomacy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day West Asia and Gulf tour from February 10 to 12 actually began in Amman, the capital of Jordan, from where his Royal Jordanian
Feb. 14, 2018
SOUTH ASIAN FRIENDS PROTEST AGAINST PAKISTAN MOVE TO ANNEX GILGIT BALTISTAN PHOTO BY:-SHAH JEHANGIR

The insanity of sanity in Gilgit-Baltistan

The Ghizer district in Gilgit-Baltistan is in the local media’s limelight, and one of the most favourite topics for researchers nowadays is the increasing trend of suicides in the district during the
Feb. 14, 2018

Dokla standoff- Far from being resolved

The Doklam standoff between China and India may have been defused, but it seems to be far from being fully resolved. The two Asian giants are still maintaining forces at the disputed
Feb. 14, 2018

Half-justice is injustice

MOBS do many things in Pakistan: they harass women, they burn down buildings, they torch cars; they are guilty of devastating Gojra, of tearing the bodies of Muneeb and Mughees Butt to
Feb. 14, 2018
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