Ghulam Nabi Fai

This is an opportunity to explore a vexing but significant topic in the field of human rights: the Right of Self-determination. The right of self-determination has been celebrated for ages. It is a basic principle […]

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) has issued its “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir.” The report contains graphic documentation of human rights violations being com […]

The Group of Seven summit this week in Charlevoix, Canada, reiterated their commitment to “shared values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights and our commitment to promote a r […]

“The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.” — Dr. Martin Luther King

The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) in Kashmir has shown willingness to talk provided the Government of India cla […]

As the time-honored adage advises, to every complex problem there is a simple solution, but it is wrong. I do not bear simple panaceas or simpleminded slogans. What I do hope to offer is an unstarry-eyed view of […]

New York. March 4, 2018. Ambassador Yusuf Buch, former senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General has elucidated that f there had been popular support in Kashmir for joining India, the dispute over […]

Once again, Kashmir is living proof that it is not going to compromise, far less abandon, its demand for Aazaadi (freedom) which is its birthright and for which it has paid a price in blood and suffering which has […]

“If parties (India & Pakistan) come here and both of them call upon the Security Council to make recommendations for the solution of their (Kashmir) dispute, ought they not in advance agree to abide by it? They a […]

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

— George Bernard Shaw

It is tragic that civilized nations have fallen from their lofty calling: namely, […]

One of the darkest chapters of Indian judicial partiality was left hanging half closed and banging in the wind when Major Avtar Singh, the killer of internationally known human rights activist and Chairman of […]

The fiftieth session of “the United Nations Commission on Social Development” (CSocD) held in New York in 2012 unanimously approved its priority theme of ‘Poverty Eradication.’ I agree with the theme a […]

‘The Christian Science Monitor’ in its column on April 25, 2012 said it all by saying that “Ritual Aggression: India and Pakistan’s missile tests, following peace talks.”We know that both India and P […]

The status of Jammu and Kashmir has been in dispute between India and Pakistan since both became independent in 1947. A U.N. commission obtained acceptance on January 5, 1949 by both parties of a peace plan […]

The issue of ‘Conflict Resolution’ is indeed a pertinent topic especially in this volatile world of ours. I would like to share the prospects of peace for one of the longest continuing conflicts on our plane […]

Once again, Kashmir is giving proof that it is not going to compromise, far less abandon, its demand for Azaadi (freedom) which is its birthright and for which it has paid a price in blood and suffering which has […]

Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India’s assertion that “there can be no redrawing of borders in Jammu Kashmir” and former Indian Supreme Court judge Saghir Ahmad’s recommendation “to resto […]

The statement of Ms. Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights deserves an appreciation who wants to encourage people everywhere to honour Human Rights Day 2009 by embracing […]

I feel gratified that the Parliament of World’s Religions is seized of the important matters relating to the building of peace in the pursuit of justice. The opportunity to exchange views on this important su […]

Kashmir dispute is simply this: the people of a large territory which is not part of any existing sovereign state were assured by the entire international community represented by the United Nations that they […]

If promises are made to be broken, then Kashmir may be summoned to prove the treacherous proposition. Broken promises haunt Kashmir’s history, and explain its tragedy. The United Nations Commission for India and […]