The India-Pakistan Conflict in Kashmir and Human Rights in the Context of Post-2019 Political Dynamics

Kuszewska, Agnieszka

doi:10.1080/03068374.2022.2041288

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“…As a result, both Pakistan and India are fighting a discursive or rhetorical war on media fronts as well. Kuszewska (2022) indicates that domestic, bilateral, and international circumstances lead both adversaries to buttress their belligerent narratives rather than constructively address the issue by de-escalating mutual tensions and resolving the difficulties of Kashmir's indigenous residents. As a result, not only Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani people have suffered for decades, but the security system in South Asia has also been adversely affected.…”

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Semiotic Facet of Reconciliation: Politics of the Representation of Indo-Pak Relations in Google Ad

Danish¹,

Riaz

2022

ASSAP

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Visual representations regulate reform, construct, and subvert ideologies that affect lives, cultural images, credibility, and international relations, etc. The study diverts attention to the soft power of visual discourse in challenging stereotypes through nuanced semiotic representations of Pak-India relations, identities of Pakistani and Indian people, their willingness to reconcile, and the impact of reconciliation. The study points out that discourse has played role in promoting misconceptions, hostility, and divergence, and discourse can subvert the ideologies and promote reconciliation, stability, and convergence. Using the triadic model of sign consisting of icon, indexical, and symbol, suggested by Peirce (1931-58), combined with the Noldus software to study facial expressions, the study highlights the ‘politics of the representation’ (Hutcheon, 1989, 1991) of reconciliation and Indo-Pak relations in the Google advertisement of reunion (2013). While there is a paucity of the visual discourse of reconciliation between Pakistan and India, the Google ad semiotically represents the themes of memory, reconciliation, post-partition trauma and the wistfulness to stay together authentically, however, this representation has its politics because it conceals the bloodshed, struggle, loss, and violation of human rights spanning over 70 years in India, Pakistan, and especially Kashmir. Results of the NOLDUS Software are indicative of the national traumatic history of India and Pakistan that chronicles the debilitating past since partition. More constructive but authentic portrayals may help build bilateral relations.

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confidence: 99%