Iftikhar Gilani
Journalist at Freelance
A journalist with nearly three decades of experience reporting from South Asia and the Middle East.
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3 weeks ago |
kashmirtimes.com | Iftikhar Gilani
As the US President Donald Trump continues to boast about his role in defusing military tensions between India and Pakistan during recent border flare-ups, a hauntingly similar episode from South Asia’s past has returned to the spotlight. A secret peace initiative during the 1999 Kargil conflict that nearly averted war was sabotaged by Pakistan’s own establishment at the behest of the US, which wanted to take credit for de-escalation.
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1 month ago |
kashmirtimes.com | Iftikhar Gilani
In the latest episode of the India-Pakistan confrontation, what died first wasn’t a soldier or civilian — it was the truth. The information war unleashed on Indian television screens in the past few weeks has crossed all boundaries of decency, ethics, and journalism. This wasn’t merely about misinformation.
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1 month ago |
outlookindia.com | Iftikhar Gilani
National Every time tensions flare between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, drawing-room generals, WhatsApp warriors, and tea-stall tacticians flood the airwaves with unsolicited military advice—while real lives hang in the balance Photo: Illustration: Saahil Photo: Illustration: Saahil After covering wars in Syria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Russia-Ukraine and Israel’s wars in Lebanon and Gaza—witnessing missiles and mortars flying overhead and entire neighbourhoods turned to rubble—it can be safely...
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1 month ago |
kashmirtimes.com | Iftikhar Gilani
Twenty-six years after the Kargil conflict pushed South Asia to the edge of a full-blown war, American diplomacy has once again emerged as the critical lever in defusing yet another nuclear flashpoint between India and Pakistan.
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1 month ago |
kashmirtimes.com | Iftikhar Gilani
A heart-wrenching image of Himanshi Narwal, the newly-wed wife of Indian Navy officer Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, mourning over her husband's lifeless body in South Kashmir’s Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam, stirred even the most stoic hearts. Their marriage, solemnised merely eight days prior, had brought them to a scenic meadow for their honeymoon, a journey tragically cut short by violence. Kashmir's landscape has been marred by bloodshed for over three decades.
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