Category: POK – Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

The elusive “freedom” and “economic prosperity” of Azad Kashmir seems to have started evaporating into thin air as a powerful rights-movement has surfaced in a land which has remained mostly under the direct rule of Pakistani state ever since 1947. The scenes of shutter down strikes across major cities of Azad Kashmir point towards the […]

URUMQI: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday said Pakistan aimed to utilise the position of China’s Xinjiang province as an “important node” of the economic corridor between the two countries. In this regard, he said, Pakistan would jointly work with China to identify the respective strengths of Gilgit Baltistan and Xinjiang. Addressing the […]

GILGIT: Preparations are in full swing for the long-awaited local bodies elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, marking the first time in 18 years that such elections would take place in the region. According to GB Chief Election Commissioner Raja Shahbaz Khan, elections are scheduled to be held in the last week of November. The delimitation of constituencies […]

The deteriorating condition of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) is a matter of great concern as the region has lost its political and constitutional identity in the past seven decades. Now it is facing a serious financial crisis and sought release of funds from the Federal government to pay for salaries of the government employees. Meanwhile, the region […]

GILGIT: Residents of Dahimal and surrounding villages kept the Gilgit-Shandur Road blocked on Tuesday and Wednesday against the murder of a schoolteacher in Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Niat Amin, 28, a resident of Gupis Valley and a teacher at Hamaran Bathrait Government School being run by Shining Light Community Development Organisation, was murdered on Tuesday […]

In Azad Kashmir, people have been protesting on the streets for the past 2 months due to the extraordinary increase in electricity bills, high taxes, inflation and unemployment. But the Prime Minister of the state government did not take any practical steps except rhetoric and instead threatened the protesters that if they did not end […]

MUZAFFARABAD: According to the social Media sources and reports, the emotions of the protesting peoples are boiling and the situation is escalting after the government crack down on protesters. The meeting of the core committee of the Awami Action Committee came to an end with important decision. The following declaration was issued in the light […]

MUZAFFARABAD/BAGH/KOTLI/RAWLAKOT: According to social media and civil society reports: The police arrested dozens of People Action Committee members in different parts of the Pakistani Administrated state of Jammu and Kashmir. The People of AJK announced Nation-Wide peaceful protests and rallies against the illegal arrest and detention. The People are protesting since last 3 months against […]

GILGIT: Caretaker (Pakistan’s) Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar directed the authorities concerned on Tuesday to identify elements spreading chaos in the name of religion in Gilgit, and take strict action against them. Chairing a meeting to discuss development projects and the law and order situation in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), the prime minister emphasised that security of […]