Tag: Kashmir

In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to the international community to come forward in a big way to...

Indian and Pakistani troopers posted along line-of-control (LoC) dividing Kashmir fired on each other's positions, officials said Friday. The ceasefire violation took place along the...

Pakistan Association of Photo Journalists (PAPJ) organised Kashmir Photo Exhibition at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Thursday. Jimmy Engineer, a famous painter and social worker, Punjab Assembly...

Two policemen were shot dead and another was wounded when suspected separatist militants attacked a patrol in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, police...

A grand Dawat-ul-Sunnah International Islamic Conference, first of its kind was organized by Tehreek Karwaan Islami in Held Kashmir. The conference was organized by Tehreek...

Reminding his pledge that he will continue support of ongoing India-Pakistan efforts to resolve Kashmir problem, the US President Barak Hussain Obama has been...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the resolution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolution and the wishes of the Kashmiri people could help efforts for peace and economic prosperity of the South Asian region.
Apprising about his fruitful meeting with the political Indian leadership to the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Raja Zulqarnain Khan who called on him at the Prime Minister's House here on Wednesday, he said that public

SIALKOT - Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said here on Sunday that the next elections in Azad Kashmir would be held in a fair and free manner.
Addressing a press conference, she said that all political parties were united on the Kashmir issue and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had always raised a voice for Kashmiris' rights, without giving any consideration to political interests.
"Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan and time has come to

SRINAGAR - Ruling out reduction of troops in Kashmir, Indian Army Friday said the terror infrastructure was still intact on the other side of the Line of Control where militants were waiting to infiltrate into the Valley.
"The situation cannot be normal as the militant infrastructure and intent across the border is alive as also their over ground network in the Valley. In this scenario, we cannot reduce the army presence," General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps Lt Gen S A Hasnain

SRINAGAR - A bomb went off outside a mosque in Kashmir's main city on Friday, killing a prominent Muslim cleric, police and witnesses said, the first such attack near a religious place in recent years.
Moulana Showkat Shah, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith which is involved in social work, was entering the mosque to lead Friday prayers when the bomb went off. One worshipper was wounded.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack in

LAHORE - The United States had pressurised India to recognise Kosovo's independence early, but New Delhi worried that a parallel would be drawn between Kosovo and Kashmir, reported The Hindu while citing the US embassy cables accessed through the WikiLeaks.
The newspaper said even before Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence in February 2008, US Ambassador David C Mulford had urged India to join the United States and key European countries in recognising Kosovo's

ISLAMABAD - Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed on Monday said that cricket diplomacy was not enough to improve the relations between Pakistan and India and Kashmir issue would have to be resolved on priority basis according to the will of Kashmiris.
Addressing a news conference here at National Press Club (NPC), Ali Raza said that failure of numerous agreements between India and Pakistan including Tashkant and Shimla, revealed that conflicts between both the countries

HANDWARA - Stating that no problem in the world can be resolved militarily, General Officer Commanding of Army's Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt Gen S A Hasnain said "the role of army is to provide environment for political solution of the longstanding issue."
Hasnain also claimed that militancy would be completely over in the valley by the end of the year, the Rising Kashmir reported.
Asked as why the army is not involved in developmental works in Naxal-affected areas in India

LAHORE - Britain's Labour government regarded Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as a major "obstacle" to a Pakistan-India deal on Kashmir, India's The Hindu newspaper quoted a cable released by the WikiLeaks (website) as stating on Sunday.
The cable, dated November 28, 2008 (180571: confidential/noforn) from the US Embassy in London showed that until a day before the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the view in the British Foreign Office was that India and Pakistan

LAHORE - Any hint of the US government's activism in Kashmir would prove counterproductive because of New Delhi's hypersensitivity to third party involvement in Kashmir, says The Hindu while quoting a cable disclosed by the WikiLeaks.
According to a US embassy cable sent by Ambassador Timothy Roemer on October 22, 2009, in order ensure success of the Indian government's efforts to restore sustainable peace and stability in Kashmir, its engagement with the separatists and with the

LAHORE - The Kashmir dispute is a joint problem of India and Pakistan and both countries should resolve it collectively, British High Commissioner to Pakistan Adam Thomson said on Saturday. Talking to reporters after a press conference arranged to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Moody International Group, he said the British government supported peace talks between India and Pakistan, and it was good to know that talks between the two neighbours were headed towards revival.