Dr. Nyla Ali Khan It was in August of 1953 that my grandfather wrote, “In the early hours of the night of August 9, I and my cabinet were dismissed without a confidence motion of the Assembly by the legally and constitutionally questionable fiat of the Head of the State. I was put under arrest along with another Minister of...

The government, on Monday, introduced a resolution to remove provisions of Article 370, which provides special status to  Jammu and Kashmir. In addition, Home Minister Amit Shah also introduced a Bill bifurcating the State of Jammu of Kashmir into Union Territory of Ladakh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Restrictions under Section 144 CrPC had come into effect from...

Dr.Nyla Ali Khan The Indian Constitution has been blatantly violated in Kashmir and the ideals it enshrines completely forgotten. Forces have arisen which threaten to carry this saddening and destructive process further still. The Indian Constitution sought to guarantee an independent judiciary, an honest electoral process, and rule of law. It is not surprising that many other countries have drawn...