Category: POK – Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

A major upgrade in mobile connectivity could soon reach the remote mountain regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), where residents have long struggled with slow and unreliable internet services. Pakistan’s Special Communications Organization (SCO), the main telecom provider in these areas, has announced plans to launch 5G services. The project is currently […]

Gilgit-Baltistan Unrest Reflects Global Shock and Local Grievances The violent unrest that erupted in early March 2026 in Gilgit-Baltistan demonstrates how global geopolitical developments can quickly ignite local tensions in politically sensitive regions, reported in a Blog Post By Dr Shabir Chaudhry, a Kashmiri writer and scholar based in London. The immediate trigger for the […]

Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan – Violent protests broke out in Pakistan’s northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan after the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. At least 13 protesters were killed during clashes with security forces, and authorities imposed a region-wide curfew to control the situation. Khamenei, 86, was reportedly killed on February 28 in a missile […]

The corridors of Islamabad’s Institute of Home Economics echoed with impassioned voices on Tuesday as students from across the capital gathered to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, transforming academic fervor into political activism, according to APP. More than ten colleges participated in the “Muqadama-e-Kashmir” theatrical competition, organized by the Kashmir Youth Forum in collaboration with the […]

MUZAFFARABAD- In the quiet shadows of the Himalayan valleys, where the spirit of Kashmir’s resilience echoes through the ages, a profound sorrow has descended upon Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, the beloved President of AJK, has left this world at the age of 71, after a courageous fight against a prolonged illness, […]

Northern Areas of Kashmir in Crisis: Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance Without Citizenship Gilgit-Baltistan, part of the historic Northern Areas of Kashmir, stands today at the centre of a deep constitutional and political crisis. This mountainous region, long tied to the unresolved Kashmir dispute at the United Nations, is being governed through administrative orders rather than constitutional law, […]

LONDON — As political unrest continues to grip Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a prominent exile political party is issuing an urgent appeal: keep talking, or risk violence. The United Kashmir People’s National Party, speaking through its central spokesman Sardar Nasir Aziz Khan, has thrown its weight behind continued negotiations between local authorities and the Joint […]

The political battle over the future shape of Jammu and Kashmir has sharpened, with the National Conference (NC) forcefully rejecting any proposal to grant separate statehood to Jammu and renewing its demand that Ladakh be reunified with Jammu and Kashmir. Senior NC leaders, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and cabinet minister Javed Rana, warned that […]

Islamabad: A delegation of Kashmiri leaders, mostly based in the US, met Federal Minister and Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, Rana Muhammad Qasim Noon, along with Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence, Sardar Fateh Ullah Khan, to discuss developments related to the Kashmir dispute.According to the Kashmir Media Service, the delegation included […]