My Loneliness with None I Share..!!

It was a day when crackers were already bursting loudly on the afternoon of 8 July, 2016, the third of Shawaal. People were planning the weekend out. But when the sun began to slump, the cracking explosions mixed with a razzmatazz of gunshots in South Kashmir’s area of Kokarnaag, some 60 kilometers away from Srinagar—the summer capital of Indian side of Kashmir. On this Day, Around 8:00 pm, television channels in New Delhi broke news, “Top Hizbul Commander Burhan Killed in Jammu and Kashmir: Police”. In a few seconds the news of Burhan’s killing became viral on social media. People glued to their TV sets to know the details. Later, A photograph of his dead body lying on a stretcher spread like wildfire on the internet. The slain in the picture didn’t properly resemble the lively and fair-faced Burhan of the Facebook pictures he and his lovers had always posted. His prominent black beard was trimmed to stubble against the contrast of his face that now looked a bit sallow. ...

The relations between Afghanistan and the US are often a hot topic of discussion in international media circles. Since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the consequent overthrowing of the Taliban regime in 2001, a number of democratically elected governments have served their terms in the war-ravaged country. With passing time, the level of trust and the nature of expectations from each other has not only continued to evolve but for the most part has deteriorated. The civilian leadership of the two countries has not always been on the same page. Their relations have seen a lot of ups and downs over the last decade and a half as a result. The very nature of their partnership is intricate and complicated. One major factor is the lack of success in resolving the core issues of Afghanistan. On one hand, the removal of Taliban government has been welcomed largely by the Afghans, on the other, the inability of the new civilian administration to take charge and contro...