The visit of Uzbekistans Foreign Minister, Saidov Bakhtiyor, to India earlier this week provides an opportunity to not only assess the current interaction between India and Uzbekistan but also of this country with the Central Asian Republics (CARs). It has been Indias constant desire to enhance its ties with these states after they were formed with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. These states too have reciprocated this interest. Geographical realities have, however, prevented the growth in Indias relations with the region. India and the CARs best access to each other is via the land route. Here Pakistan has denied India access to Afghanistan via the Punjab route. Besides, the unsettled conditions that have continued to prevail in Afghanistan have also prevented the development of direct land connectivity between India and the CARs. After their formation the CARs have had to deal with the reality of the great leap made by China. Global relations have been transformed because of the rise of China which has been manifest in the past three decades. China has laid great emphasis in knitting the CARs region with itself through the development of connectivity projects. Its vehicle for this purpose has been its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Naturally the CARs want to gain what they can from their relations with China. In addition to China there is one other geopolitical reality for the CARs. This relates to Russia which continues to have residual influence in these states. As the Sino-US rivalry is developing and especially since the Ukraine war which began in 2022 Russia and China have come closer to each other. In respect of the CARs they are acting in tandem to maintain their individual and joint interests in the region. This requires that they contain US moves in the region. One way of doing so is the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) which is one mechanism for the purpose of integrating the interests of the CARs with China and Russia. This is notwithstanding the fact that India is also a member of the organisation. Before proceeding further a brief look at one other facet of the CAR region. The two great powers in the medieval period, apart from the Mughals in India, were the Ottomans and Safavids. The Ottomans and the Safavids influence spread to what are now the CARs. This can be witnessed in the languages of the CARs. The area stretching from northern Afghanistan to Tajikistan is dominated by Persian in its different dialects. Except Tajikistan the rest of the CARs speak forms of the Turkish language. Naturally as all of them were part of the Russian empire and later the Soviet Union a knowledge of the Russian language continues in them. Turkey has always wished to cultivate its influence in the Turkic speaking CARs and has worked hard to extend it since they came into being. It is being challenged by Iran though its real influence is mainly in the Persian speaking areas. This is the geopolitical situation confronting the CARs. Amidst it these states want to, as noted earlier, want to build ties with India despite the problems of connectivity. One reason for this lies in the deep old historical connection between India and some of the CARs in particular such as Uzbekistan. During his meeting with Saidov Bakhtiyor External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar correctly noted Now, we in India very much consider Uzbekistan to be a part of our extended neighbourhood, and there has always been a continuous exchange of people, of ideas, of goods in both directions. We share a very long historical and cultural linkage as well. In ancient times this continuous exchange in both directions was provided by Buddhism which went across the Hindukush and crossed the Amu and Syr Dariyas and influenced the region and from there went to China. That was what went from India. From the other direction came the Mughals. Baburs home was in the Ferghana valley formed by the Syr Darya. His hometown was in what is now Uzbekistan though parts of the Ferghana valley are also in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Despite ideological shifts, historical memory should not be recalled selectively. Moving from ancient and medieval times to the present era Jaishankar observed In more modern times, we have had regular interaction at political levels, between our systems at an institutional level, and I am very glad to see that there has been a steady momentum in our ties. Our leadership has maintained very close contact, and my Prime Minister has a very special regard for your President. Uzbekistans President is Shavkat Mirziyoyev who has been in office since 2016. Prime Minister Narendra Modi places great emphasis on personal ties in the conduct of foreign policy. Hence, what Jaishankar noted is a good augury for the development of India-Uzbek relations. On the specifics of the areas where the two countries can cooperate Jaishankar stated our bilateral relations over the years have expanded and today they really span very diverse range of domains from construction and digital to energy, health, education, we want to take it into mining, and we have a trade today of close to a billion dollars, we definitely think that that number should go up. Uzbekistan is keen for Indian participation in its mining sector. Its Investment Minister Laziz Udratov said in Delhi recently that his country had gold, copper, uranium, critical minerals and rare earths. It was looking for, he implied, Indias participation especially in the processing of steel and copper and rare earths. Indias needs for rare earths will grow and that is one area it should seriously look at in Uzbekistan.
7 Years. A Promise Broken, Not Deferred
Seven years is long enough to stop calling something recent and start calling it a pattern. On 5 August 2019, Parliament read down Articles 370 and 35A, stripped Jammu and Kashmir of statehood, and split it into two Union Territories. The justification offered then rested on security, development and integration and, crucially, on a promise: that Union Territory status was a transitional arrangement, not a permanent settlement. Seven anniversaries later, the transition has not ended. What was billed as interim has hardened into a semi-permanent constitutional condition, and the question that ought to trouble every citizen who values federalism is not whether Article 370 will return that argument, rightly or wrongly, has been closed by the Supreme Court but why statehood, promised without qualification, still has not. The Courts own words should have settled the matter. In its 11 December 2023 judgment upholding the abrogation, the Constitution bench recorded the Union governments assurance that statehood would be restored and directed that Assembly elections be held no later than September 2024. Elections were duly held three phases, turnout touching 64 percent, the highest in decades, conducted without the shutdowns and boycotts that scarred Kashmirs electoral history. An elected Chief Minister was sworn in. On every visible metric, the government could claim to have kept its word. Except the one metric that mattered: nearly two years after that election, Jammu and Kashmir remains a Union Territory answerable to a Lieutenant Governor rather than a state answerable to its own legislature. The gap between promise and fulfilment is not oversight; it is policy. The Union Home Minister has, on several occasions since the 2024 elections, said statehood will come at an appropriate time, conditioned on further improvement in the security situation a formulation notable for supplying no date, no metric and no mechanism by which appropriate might ever be certified. This is the same government that, in the run-up to those elections, told the country terrorism in the Valley had been cut by seventy percent and that a corner had been decisively turned. It cannot hold both claims at once normalcy sufficient to justify elections, yet insufficient to justify statehood without conceding that the security argument has become a discretionary veto rather than a genuine precondition. If 64 percent turnout under the shadow of militancy does not constitute appropriate time, the word has been emptied of meaning. Meanwhile, the elected government functions inside a cage built by its own Reorganisation Act. Police, public order, all-India service postings, the anti-corruption bureau and land remain with the Lieutenant Governor. Six months into his term, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was already speaking of a gulf between Srinagar and Delhi; a year on, a routine bureaucratic transfer order triggered an open standoff between the Chief Secretary and the Raj Bhawan, with the Chief Ministers own directive to rescind it simply set aside. A government that cannot move its own officials is not a government in any meaningful constitutional sense. It is an advisory council operating under supervision and calling it elected does not make it accountable to the people who elected it. That contradiction is now before the Supreme Court again. A plea seeking a time-bound direction for statehood restoration is listed for hearing this week. The Unions response so far, through the Solicitor General, has been to point to the peaceful conduct of the 2024 elections as evidence of substantial progress as though an election were a substitute for the state whose absence necessitated the litigation in the first place. It is a category error: elections are a means to self-governance, not their replacement. The petitioners underlying point deserves to be taken seriously: an assurance recorded before a Constitution Bench is not a political talking point to be revisited whenever convenient. It is closer to an undertaking, and undertakings left unperformed for years without explanation erode the very rule of law the abrogation was supposedly designed to strengthen. This year, that erosion has produced an unusual spectacle: mainstream parties that agree on almost nothing else are marking 5 August together as a day of protest. The National Conference is observing it as a black day against the Centres continuing refusal to restore statehood, weeks after its own demonstration at Delhis Jantar Mantar. The Congress and the PDP are holding separate protests of their own in Jammu, the latter also demanding the release of political prisoners. Whatever their other differences, the point of convergence an elected government still waiting for the powers its own election was supposed to confer is itself a verdict on how the last two years have gone. When the NC, Congress and PDP find common ground, it is not politics-as-usual; it is a constitutional alarm bell. The costs of this suspended constitutional status are not abstract. Jammu and Kashmirs urban youth unemployment rate stood at roughly 32 percent in the most recent Periodic Labour Force Survey nearly double the national figure, and worse still for young women, whose joblessness runs above 50 percent. Overall unemployment in the Union Territory is close to double the national average. These numbers do not improve because a Lieutenant Governor administers welfare schemes efficiently; they require an elected government with real fiscal and administrative authority, answerable to a legislature that can question ministers, demand answers, and be punished by voters for failure. Governance without accountability tends, everywhere and always, toward drift, and drift is what J&Ks labour market has experienced for years now. The unfinished business extends to the community whose displacement is most often invoked to justify continued central oversight. Kashmiri Pandits were promised, implicitly and explicitly, that abrogation would open the door to their dignified return. Seven years on, official figures on actual, permanent resettlement remain vanishingly small set against the tens of thousands of registered migrant families still living in transit camps in Jammu. Land-restoration drives and job appointments are welcome, but they are not the same as return, and conflating the two lets successive administrations claim a victory that displaced families themselves do not yet feel. A normalcy narrative that has not delivered dignified return for Pandits, full authority for an elected government, or a functioning labour market for the young cannot simultaneously be offered as proof that the security conditions for statehood have been met. None of this is an argument against the constitutional finality the Supreme Court has given the abrogation itself; that debate is closed, whatever ones view of it. It is an argument that finality on one question cannot be used indefinitely to defer finality on another. Jammu and Kashmir is the only part of India where citizens vote for a legislative assembly that governs with less authority than a municipal corporation exercises elsewhere over its own city. That is not integration; it is a holding pattern dressed up as one. The Union government that engineered this transition owes it to the people who turned out in record numbers to vote, to the Court whose assurance it invoked to defend the abrogation, and to its own repeated public promises to set a date. Not a mood, not a when conditions permit, but an actual date for restoring what was taken. Seven anniversaries of waiting is not patience. It is a debt coming due. The writer is a retired Indian Army officer and strategic analyst. This essay is drawn from his forthcoming book, The Republic Without Capacity: Reflections on Governance.
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Unfortunately, Tejpal, who demanded accountability from governments and public institutions, himself failed to meet the standards that he set out for others. The law, of course, must treat a celebrity and an ordinary citizen alike, and no person deserves harsher punishment merely because he or she is famous. However, public stature carries a greater moral responsibility
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Dharavi Redevelopment Project Clarifies Eviction Process for Ganesh Nagar Residents
Mumbai, August 7: The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has issued an official statement rejecting claims that residents of Ganesh Nagar-Meghwadi were evicted without prior notice. According to the administrative officer and tehsildar of the DRP, the demolition was carried out on Thursday in strict compliance with legal procedures. This action followed months of public notices, ... Read more Dharavi Redevelopment Project Clarifies Eviction Process for Ganesh Nagar Residents
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Women tie rakhi to CM Gupta at Delhi Assembly
US Senate Passes Bill That May Penalise Countries Buying Russian Oil, Gas
The sweeping show of force from the Senate is the most substantial move yet during President Donald Trump's second term to shift the dynamic of the more than four-year war, which has now churned longer than World War I.
