Opinion

By ZAINAB SALEEM When the British Indian Empire was partitioned in 1947, Jammu & Kashmir stood at a crucial juncture. It was one of the largest princely states to decide what political direction it will take. Under the Dogra…

By HABIB UR REHMAN The Jammu Massacre of 1947 was not a spontaneous outbreak of communal violence; it was an organized and state-sponsored operation designed to alter the demography of a Muslim-majority region. Under the Dogra ruler…

By Mushtaq Hussain The November 1947 Jammu Massacre remains one of the darkest and most systematically obscured episodes in the history of South Asia’s partition. It was neither a spontaneous eruption of communal violence nor a reaction…

By Justice (Retd.) Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani For the first time, the Government of Pakistan has extended a federal security law — the Frontier Constabulary (Reorganization) Ordinance, 2025 — to cover the entire country, including…

In Remembrance of the Martyrs of Jammu — November 6, 1947 By: Shaukat Ali On November 6, 1947, the land of Jammu was drenched in the blood of its own people. What began as a systematic campaign of terror soon turned into one of the…

Musab Umair In times of uncertainties, chaos and ever-growing challenges, Karachi has always emerged as a sigh of hope for Pakistan with dynamism, prospects and opportunities at every step of the way. Being the financial hub of the…

By N A Thakur The contested narrative surrounding the events of October 1947 in Jammu and Kashmir—described in Indian historiography as a “tribal invasion”—lies at the very heart of the Kashmir tragedy. This narrative, carefully…

By Samra Khaksar Some wounds bleed silently through generations not because time cannot heal them, but because history refuses to acknowledge them. November 6, 1947, stands as one such unhealed wound in the story of Kashmir; a day…

Shazia Ashraf Khawajha When history recounts the cataclysmic bloodshed of the 1947 Partition of India, the focus often falls on the train journeys of death between Punjab and the communal inferno of Bengal. Yet, nestled in the…

By Mehr un NisaThe story of Jammu in 1947 is not a story of spontaneous chaos. It was a story of a sinister plan. A plan drawn up months before Partition. A plan to wipe out Muslims from Jammu and create conditions for the Hindu ruler,…