Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmiri Activists Raise Concerns Over Demographic Change The Tehreek Shabab-ul-Muslimeen Jammu and Kashmir has called for stronger protection of Kashmiris’ land, identity, culture and political rights, saying these issues are central to the future of the region. In a press release issued in Islamabad on Monday, the group urged the international community to take steps […]
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Gilgit’s Fragile Lifelines Wash Away in Flash Floods The mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, long celebrated for their majesty, are increasingly becoming a landscape of vulnerability. Last Saturday, violent cloudbursts sent flash floods tearing through Ghizer and Hunza, blocking the Karakoram Highway, smashing homes, and drowning orchards that families had tended for generations. In Naubahar village, the […]
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s newly formed government has distributed ministerial portfolios among its eight-member cabinet, marking a shift from political formation to day‑to‑day governance. The move comes after the ministers took their oaths on Friday under the Pakistan Muslim League‑Nawaz (PML‑N) administration led by Prime Minister Iftikhar Gilani, according to The Express Tribune. According to […]
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Historic Low Turnout, Seven Seats Vacant: AJK’s New Cabinet Takes Oath Muzaffarabad: An eight-member cabinet of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s new government was sworn in on Friday, completing the first phase of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) administration in the region. AJK Acting President Chaudhry Tariq Farooq administered the oath at a ceremony in Muzaffarabad, […]
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MUZAFFARABAD: Barrister Syed Iftikhar Ali Gillani was sworn in as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Friday, but his victory was overshadowed by an unusual and serious revolt within his own Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). The strongest sign of disagreement came from PML-N AJK President Shah Ghulam Qadir, one of […]
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ISLAMABAD: Kashmir, a Himalayan region claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, remains one of South Asia’s deepest and most sensitive disputes. Nearly eight decades after British rule ended in 1947, the question of the territory continues to shape relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and often draws outside powers into a diplomatic storm. India […]
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MUZAFFARABAD: The outcome of two closely contested constituencies in Pak-administered Kashmir remained uncertain on Tuesday after the Election Commission ordered re-polling at 23 polling stations in Bagh, adding another twist to an election already overshadowed by a boycott call, political tension and questions over voter participation. Re-polling will take place on August 15 at nine […]
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Vienna Protest Urges UN to Renew Efforts on Kashmir VIENNA: Members of the Pakistani and Kashmiri diaspora, joined by Austrian citizens, political figures, human rights advocates, women and children, gathered outside the United Nations office in Vienna on Friday to express solidarity with the people of Azad Kashmir and to call for renewed international engagement […]
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RAWALAKOT, Pakistan-administered Kashmir: In a spare bedroom turned makeshift clinic, a bloodstained sheet tells a quiet, terrible story. Shafqat Hussain lies on a bed beneath a red tarpaulin, shot in the chest during protests that have turned this city into a place of fear, anger, and grief. “We only asked for affordable flour, electricity and […]
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The long-running dispute over Jammu and Kashmir continues to challenge international law by raising a difficult question: how can a country protect its sovereignty while also safeguarding the human rights of the people living within its borders? Nearly eight decades after the conflict began, the region remains at the centre of political tensions between India […]
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