End of the Kashmir Jihad: Kashmir results cut across communal fault lines


End of the Kashmir Jihad: Kashmir results cut across communal fault
lines

Having predicted that Kashmiris would boycott the election, Indian
liberals are now urging the government to act to resolving the Kashmir
issue with some sort of geographical solution. They are wrong.
Elections are the solution. Secular democracy is the only goal: It is
what Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted. Kashmiris already
have that. -- Aakar Patel

Kashmir results cut across communal fault lines. Sunday’s election
results prove State’s political map is a complex mosaic of sub-
regional zones of influence. Notion of three monolithic ethnic-
religious blocks debunked. NC succeeded in staving off PDP in central
Kashmir. -- Praveen Swami

Kashmir Calling: With the numbers less important than their import,
the Jammu & Kashmir election results are the best New Year gift India
could want. Without question, Kashmiris have said yes to social peace,
political moderation and economic development. -- The Times of India

J&K: India, again, is biggest winner: … four considerations are beyond
dispute, and cannot be overlooked: that these elections were squeaky
clean and were the freest and fairest ever held in the state; that the
spectacular and unprecedented voter turnout mocked the secessionists
as it was in defiance of the boycott campaign of the separatist
outfits; that the high turnout was uniform across districts and showed
significant blurring of the much-touted urban-rural divide; and that
the electoral exercise was conducted by the Election Commission of
India and not the United Nations or any other external agency. --
Asian Age

J&K poll result leaves Pakistan media cold. For a country obsessed
with the K word, the Pakistan English media was spectacularly reticent
on the outcome of the Jammu and Kashmir election. Newspapers either
ignored it or dismissed it in small news items. TNN

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Islam and Politics
Bangladesh votes for secular, egalitarian values, democratic
governance, rejects Islamic fundamentalism

A majority of the voters have resoundingly spoken in favour of the
spirit of the war of national independence: the quest for an
egalitarian society built on the principles of secular democracy. –
Editorial in New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Breakaway from patriarchal view of female leadership: Whether women
can make better leaders has not been carefully studied in Bangladesh,
either. Although the country was under female leadership in the past
three political governments, people still seem to have doubts about
the effectiveness of female political leadership, write SSM Sadrul
Huda, Ayesha Tabassum, Dr Jashim Uddin Ahmed and Dr Salim Rashid

After two years of army-backed emergency rule, democracy returned to
Bangladesh on Monday as voters flocked to the polls to choose their
next government in a largely peaceful and in many places festive
atmosphere.– Report in New York Times by SOMINI SENGUPTA and JULFIKAR
ALI MANIK

The secular vote bloc by Naeem Mohaiemen

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