Srinagar: Twenty-nine-year-old Nazima Begum* sits cross-legged on the floor of her dark room, the windows covered with tarpaulin. On her lap is her youngest son, five-month-old Taufiq, who plays with his mother’s face as she talks. Occasionally, she stops to plant a kiss on his
Jammu and Kashmir is a UN-mandated international dispute. The UN Security Council has passed several resolutions that call for the holding of a free and fair plebiscite to determine the political aspirations of the Kashmiri people. This makes self-determination an inalienable right of the Kashmiris. Therefore,
United Nations: Pakistan, citing the unresolved Kashmir and Palestine disputes, has called for the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions that provide for the exercise of the right to self-determination by the Kashmiri and Palestinian people. Ambassador Munir Akram told the 15-member body that the
Ladakh: Ladakh’s leadership has rejected Modi-led Indian government’s committee and made it clear to India that people of Kargil and Leh region were better off with occupied Jammu and Kashmir before it was stripped of its special status on August 5, 2019 and divided in
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) ) has criticized India’s proposal to hold the G-20 summit in Srinagar and urged the group’s participants to concentrate on the economic recovery rather than politicking the pertinent issue In a statement issued in Srinagar, the APHC leadership said
Oslo: Realization of right to self-determination of Kashmiris in Indian Administered Kashmir is a “whole-some” process which demands all segments of Kashmiri resistance movement will have to work in tandem with each other to defeat the enemy, speakers said at a conference in Norway. Addressing right
London: Renowned Pakistani commentator and foreign policy expert Mosharraf Zaidi has said that India’s occupation of Kashmir served not only to make the region less stable and less secure but also undermined the UK and other Western powers’ goals in the so-called Indo-Pacific region. Zaidi said
United Nations: A United Nations report pinpointed a series of actions taken by India in the disputed region of Kashmir over the years that have impaired the peacekeeping responsibilities of the Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which monitors the Line of Control
New York: Pakistan called the international community, especially United Nations, to live up to their promises and take measures as enshrined in the UNSC resolutions. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto said, “It must also call for an immediate cessation of human rights abuses and a reversal of
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Kashmir is a dispute recognised by the UN. It holds infamy as the most dangerous place on the planet. The 76-year-old conflict in that disputed, divided, devastated, and illegally occupied territory is the bone of contention of the nuclear tension in the