ISLAMABAD, (APP): Protests and rallies continue in held Kashmir on Wednesday despite the imposition of curfew in the valley for the past 47 days. Dozens of protesters were injured in pellet firing by Indian armed forces’ personnel on anti-India protest rallies in Shopian, Nowgam, Bandipora, Sopore, Rafiabad, Baramulla, Dapan and other areas of the territory, […]
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Mirwaiz writes to international leaders over Indian atrocities in held Kashmir
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India violating international norms in IOK: SAHRDC
ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Executive Director of New Delhi-based South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC), Ravi Nair, has said that the Indian Government is grossly violating international norms by indiscriminately using pellet guns against protesters in occupied Kashmir. Ravi Nair in an interview with a Srinagar-based English daily Greater Kashmir said that the Indian government […]
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JI IOK condemns police raid on office, arrest of leaders
ISLAMABAD, (APP): Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in occupied Kashmir has condemned the police raid on its Shopian office and the arrest of District President, Shahzada Aurangzeb, and Tehsil leader, Muhammad Sikandar, from the office. The JI Spokesman, Advocate Zahid Ali, in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the police took the leaders into custody from Jamaat’s […]
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FIRs lodged against MQM chief, 14 others
KARACHI,(APP): Artillery Madan Police Station has registered two different cases here Tuesday against anti-Pakistan speech by London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain and for inciting party activists to indulge in violence in Saddar area of the metropolis on Monday. According to a police spokesman, 15 persons including MQM chief Altaf Hussain and Farooq […]
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Right to self-determination only solution of Kashmir problem: Hurriyet leaders
ISLAMABAD, (APP): Hurriyet leadership has unanimously said that the solution to the Kashmir dispute lies only in securing the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations on Kashmir. According to KMS, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabbir Ahmad Shah and other […]
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At UN, Pakistan makes a strong pitch for Nuclear Supplier Group’s membership
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): Pakistan has made a strong case for the country’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a 48-nation body that regulates the global trade in nuclear technology, telling the UN Security Council that the exemplary measures Islamabad had taken to strengthen nuclear safety establish its eligibility credentials. “We expect that a non-discriminatory, criteria-based […]