This happened a day after the incalcitrant cleric and politician Maulana Fazlur Rehman set a two-day deadline for Prime Minister Imran Khan...

As the vote in Parliament demonstrated, the mood against persisting with a constitutional status for J&K was overwhelming and bipartisan

"I am not a dynast but struggled since 2002, when I joined politics," said Sajjad Ghani Lone.

The revival of yet another violent political chapter has already brought in a sea change in the political colours of the state.