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Book force personnel involved in excesses: HRW
Srinagar, Apr 27: A day after UN secretary general Ban ki Moon arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit to India, International Human rights Watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday said peace cannot be restored in the Valley till force personnel involved in excesses are booked.
“There is [...]
UN discuss Kashmir question next week
NEW YORK April 26, 2012: The Security Council was yesterday officially convened to meet next week to discuss the Kashmir question. Substantive debate on Kashmir is expected to begin after Pakistan and Indian representatives have made their opening statements. The UN will take up the Kashmir [...]
Kashmir Conference warns India to desist from state terrorism in disputed region
Islamabad April 24, 2012: A day long Kashmir Conference to seek answer to the challenging situation of the Kashmir movement in the back-drop of growing Pakistan -India commerce and cultural relations and newly introduced Dargah-Diplomacy, was held here in a local hotel today, under the auspices of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League AJK Chapter ,highlighting apprehensions of the Kashmiris across the conflict zone infested with grave human rights violations by Indian occupation troops since 1988.
The Kashmir Conference was hosted by Ishtiaq Hameed leader of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League who briefed the audience about the aims and objectives of this conference.
Kashmir:Mobile bunkers to replace CRPF pickets
Date: 23 Apr 2012
Mobile bunkers to replace CRPF pickets
• Bunker removal process put on halt in some areas: IG Prakash
• 22 battalions of paramilitary force deployed in Srinagar
• 10 bullet-proof mobile bunkers added to CRPF fleet
Wasim Khalid
Srinagar, April 20: Even as major bunkers have been [...]
Indian text book describes liberated Kashmir as Azad Kashmir
Srinagar, April 22 (agencies): A new text book published by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for class three in an Army school in Srinagar has depicted the map of Jammu and Kashmir exactly how it is being published in Pakistan.
In Delhi Indian media reported that the map has described [...]
J&K Police to be Deployed Along Indo-Nepal Border
Delhi 22 April:In an attempt to plug the Nepal route used by Kashmiri militants to re-enter the Valley using the new surrender policy as a cover, the Centre has decided to depute Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel along with the Sashastra Seema Bal, a para-military force guarding the Indo-Nepal [...]
Kashmir lifeline of Pakistan, says Shahbaz
(Wednesday, April 18, 2012)
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said Kashmir is the lifeline of Pakistan which has been kept separated by force from the Islamic republic. He was addressing a joint press conference along with Kashmir Committee Chairman Maulana Fazlur Rahman at Chief [...]
Indian media personnel will visit AJK, Swat and the country’s tribal areas.
(Express Tribune)
ISLAMABAD 12 april: Pakistan has agreed to allow a group of Indian journalists to travel to its part of Kashmir and the tribal areas in a rare development that indicates gradual normalisation of ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
The Indian delegation, comprising [...]
‘Kashmir settlement should apply on both sides of LoC’
CHENNAI, April 13, 2012
Interlocutors’ report moots expansion of trade and travel, joint plan for Indus basin
If the psychological trauma of the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the last six decades is to end, a settlement to the disputes arising out of the division of different parts of the [...]
Saichen Avalanche is shocking──Muhammad Farooq Rehmani
Islamabad: 09 April, 2012: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed shock over the occurrence of a devastating avalanche engulfing an entire camp of the Pakistan army in Sakardu on Saturday. It was a sad day for Pakistan as the army lost about 124 [...]
Christof Heyn’s statement substantiated our views – Farooq Rehmani
Islamabad 01, April 2012: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has warmly hailed UN Special Rapporteur Christof Heyn’s preliminary statement saying that “the Armed Forces Special Powers Act allows the state to override rights and has no role in a democracy.” [...]
Fai’s sentence shocking – Farooq Rehmani
Islamabad:01 April,2012: The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed great shock over the jailing sentence of two years by a US Court against Dr. Gh. Nabi Fai, who was lobbying for a peaceful resolution of Kashmir, and for the restoration of basic [...]