MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly, while expressing deep concern over the environmental degradation in the region, has constituted a ten-member committee comprising both treasury and opposition legislators to propose measures for the centre and regional government to overcome the situation. The committee, after the conclusion of debate on an adjournment motion moved […]
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Shutter down, rallies against Malik’s sentence observed in AJK.
MUZAFFARABAD: People of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capital Muzaffarabad on Wednesday observed a shutter down strike against life imprisonment to Hurriyat leader Yaseen Malik by an Indian court. Different political parties also organised rallies and protest demonstrations across the region to condemn injustice under draconian laws by a suppressor. All the business centres and […]
India to be stopped from violating fundamental prisoners’ rights in Yasin Malik case: Mushaal
ISLAMABAD: Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s wife Mushaal Malik has called upon the international community to play its role to stop India from violating fundamental prisoners’ rights in the Yasin Malik case. Addressing a news conference along with PPP leader Saleem Mandviwalla in Islamabad on Monday, she said Yasin Malik has been kept in Tihar […]
PM strongly condemns Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik’s conviction in fake case
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday strongly condemned the conviction of prominent Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik by the Indian court in a fictitious terrorism case. He said Pakistan rejected the Indian failed tactics against Yasin Malik who was a symbol of unparalleled bravery and freedom. He urged the international community including the United Nations and the […]
India hell bent on criminalizing education in Kashmir: Altaf Wani
MIRPUR (AJK): Senior APHC leader Altaf Hussain Wani has condemned the Indian authorities for imposing ban on Kashmiri students to travel to Pakistan for pursuing higher education. Terming it as a violation of the international law, the APHC leader , in a statement late Thursday , while underling the Indian government’s motive behind the move […]
SIA conducts raids multiple locations in South Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: India-controlled State Investigation Agency (SIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in South Kashmir Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), the sleuths of the SIA along with the personnel of Indian police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are conducting searches in Lassipora, Chandgam and […]
Kashmiri leader urges US to push India to end atrocities in India and Kashmir
NEW YORK: Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, secretary-general of the Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum, said that the United States has a moral obligation, as a world power, to impel India to bring to an immediate end its systematic atrocities in occupied Kashmir and across the South Asian country. “The United States cannot simply stand by […]
AJK PM resigns in wake of no-confidence motion
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayoom Niazi on Thursday resigned from his office in the wake of a no-confidence motion against him scheduled to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Friday. A hand written resignation was issued by his office, which was sent to the AJK President on Thursday […]
Mushaal urges Kashmir to observe 24 April as black day
ISLAMABAD: Chairperson of the Peace and Culture Organization Mushaal Hussein Malik Thursday urged the Kashmiri people to observe April 24 a black day when notorious Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Mushaal, the wife of illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin […]
AJK President invites IDB’s assistance in combating environmental problems in AJK
MIRPUR (AJK): President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry on Wednesday sought Islamic Development Bank’s assistance in combating environmental problems in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. During a detailed meeting with the IDB President Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jassar in Saudi’s metropolitan city of Jeddah on Wednesday Barrister Chaudhary told him that the […]