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With many printing presses and lot many newspapers around, the journalists in Jammu and Kashmir attempted and constituted many associations to articulate the issue the media was confronted with.
Mohammad Sayeed Malik
Even over half a century later question remains unanswered as to why had the Kashmir leader courted trouble by meeting Zhou Enlai despite its too obvious adverse political implications back home.
Prior to the Security Council meeting at which consideration of India’s complaint against Pakistan concerning the situation in Jammu and Kashmir resumes, Fernand van Langenhove (Belgium), President of the Security Council, meets with representatives of both parties in the dispute. (L to R) Mr Van Langenhove; Faris el-Khouri, Syria’s representative on the Council; Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah, President of All-Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and head of the Kashmir State Administration; Ambassador M. A. H. Ispanhani, Pakistan; Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs, and N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, India’s Minister without Portfolio. A UN photograph dated January 15, 1948, taken at Lake Success, UN.
Shamim A Shamim, Kashmir’s Editor, Orator, Politician
Shamim Ahmed Shamim was one of Kashmir’s prominent journalist editors who was later in politics and was elected to the state assembly and the parliament. He edited Aina newspaper that was known for his satire and critique of contemporary Kashmir and politics. This earned him more friends than foes.
With the guests of the then Prime Minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad in Srinagar, Shamim A Shamim, as the Cultural Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir government. Photo Courtesy: Qurrat Ul Ain
“Strange are the ways of politicians: only a few years ago the Sheikh and Shamim were thick as thieves. Today they are sworn enemies, ever since the Sheikh nominated his wife as a National Conference MP and Shamim joined the Janata Party,” Sunil Sethi wrote in The India Today in February 1979. “Shamim has since been assaulting the chief minister and his family on charges of gross corruption in vitriolic articles in his Urdu newspaper