Ghulam Muhammad Mir (GM Mir), a noted Kashmiri researcher and intellectual, woefully moans: every day in the calendar is a Martyr’s Day for the people of Kashmir. His mourning succinctly portrays the plight of the people living in perpetual subjugation since 1947. It is an appalling reality that after the creation of Pakistan, leadership of Pakistan and Kashmir, by and large, did not make any sincere effort(s) to engage the ...
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It is a horrific reality that women have been the most vulnerable sufferers of wars, rebellions and mutinies. They have been taken as articles of war booty, raped, tortured to death, sold or traded like animals. Those who were killed or chose to plunged into rivers, wells or hanged themselves with tree got free of perpetual mental trauma; those who were spared to live continue to live with deep scars ...
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Every year, November 6 reminds us of the plight of tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims from Jammu, who were beguiled into in a vicious trap and then slaughtered in cold blood. Those innocent and clueless Muslims, promised to facilitate their migration to their other home – Pakistan, never saw the day again. They did not have any idea that a dark and gruesome fate awaited them; thousands of old, ...
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The newly sworn in prime minister(13th) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi, has struck a surprise to many. In fact his name came to the limelight after Ik nominated him for the premiership. Well known for his humble family background and untainted political career ,it is widely believed that the PM would contribute significantly to development of AJK and strengthen the base camp, adding a life ...
Read More3اکتوبر کے اخبار میں ایک رنگین تصویر چھپی ہے جس میں سابق وزیر اعظم آزاد کشمیر بیرسٹر سلطان محمود چوہدری، ثانیہ نشتر ، حکومت آزاد کشمیر کا ایک اہلکاراور حکومتی مشیر فردوس عاشق اعوان نظر ر آرہے ہیں۔ فردوس عاشق اعوان ایک زلزلہ متاثر نوجوان کو سفید رنگ کا ایک لفافہ تھمارہی ہیں اور نوجوان کا منہ کیمرے کی طرف ہے جس کا یقینا اس کو حکم دیا گیا ہوگا۔ ...
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Following the racist agenda of the RSS, Modi government has pushed Kashmir to further mayhem. Much has been said and written about this issue, which potentially can lead to a nuclear conflict anytime. The present attempt focuses on role of the AJK government and people in this regard. The government of Pakistan observed 27 September as Kashmir Solidarity Day to denounce fifty three days of curfew and oppression inflicted upon eighty ...
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On July 8, when Eid festivities were still alive around the Muslim world, the Bundoora village of Kokerang, Kashmir, witnessed yet another youth, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, falling to liberate his motherland from the Indian occupation. Burhan was amongst thousands of those who chose not to bow down before brutal Indian forces. The slaying of Burhan sparked protests across Kashmir. The following day, the world saw a sea of mourners at Tral ...
Read MoreIndian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, in a statement on April 9, 2015, disclosed that Chief Minister of Held Kashmir Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had “assured the Union Government to provide land in the valley for setting up Composite Townships for settlement of Kashmiri pandits.” Again on April 28 he reiterated in lower House of Representatives (Lok Sabha) that Mufti Sayeed had “promised to earmark 50 acres of land as first instalment for the resettlement of Kashmiru pandits.” The ...
Read More‘Those are Pakistani Fuji standing at the hill top, and they would soon come down to liberate us’, Said Ibrahim, recalling his vivid childhood memories, that how his grandmother, would tell him, pointng towards towering pine trees stationed at the hills at night. “And indeed that they would come, we had a faith”, continued Ibrahim. ‘But it never happened,’ he sighed, with gleam diminishing in his eyes. Ibrahim is a congenial man from Srinagar in his early sixties. ...
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