“Limited Bandwidth”: Where Is The Reporting On Kashmir?

Kashmir is like Solomon’s Baby, except both of its prospective mothers are happy to cut it in half.

John Lubbock | Global Voices
By John Lubbock | Global Voices
Indian paramilitary police stand guard during curfew in Srinagar, Indian occupied Kashmir, Wednesday, July 13, 2016.

Last week a US-Kashmiri teenage girl wrote an open letter to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi that was reported by the Times of India: “Mr PM, I see the newsflash, the attack in Nice, France, is screened followed by the attempted military coup in Turkey, along with the report on the monsoon rains in southern India. But where is the news on

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The Olympic Motto Is ‘Peace Through Sport.’ But In South Asia, It’s About War

Pakistan and India have skiers at Sochi thanks to high-altitude conflict.

James Tapper
By James Tapper
Shiva Keshavan of India prepares to start his run during a training session for the men's singles luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

NEW DELHI, India — India and Pakistan would be hard-pressed to boast of many benefits from their decades-long conflict. Up to one million people died in Hindu-Muslim clashes when British India was divided to create both countries in 1947. The nuclear arms race that followed would end human civilization, experts say, if even a handful of the

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India, Pakistan Hold Peace Summit In New York

Leaders of India and Pakistan are meeting in an attempt to reconcile the decades-long feud between the two South Asian nations.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — A meeting of the Pakistani and Indian prime ministers in New York this weekend is a fresh chance for one leader to push for peace on the subcontinent — and likely the last chance for the other. Three-time Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif and India's Manmohan Singh are due to meet Sunday on the sidelines of the U.N. General

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