Kashmir News

Need for Genuine Interfaith Dialogue

Dec 30th, 2015 | By

By Sajjad Shaukat   During a visit to Italy’s largest military cemetery of World War I, on November 14, expressing his grief over the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, Pope Francis called them a “piece of a piecemeal World War III…war is madness…even today…fought with crimes, massacres, destruction.”   On September 25, this year,



CIA: For Whose Protection?

Dec 30th, 2015 | By

By Sajjad Shaukat   No doubt, every country has a superior intelligence agency to protect the national interest of the state. It keeps a vigilant eye on the internal and external threats.  Even by playing a double game, it thwarts the anti-state subversion through various means.   Quite contrarily, from the very beginning, the US



East Pakistan 1971: The Allegories and the Accuracy – II

Dec 18th, 2015 | By

By Sohail Parwaz Only few of the pertinent and relevant excerpts for the interest, from the renowned Indian author and researcher Sarmila Bose’s book, “Dead Reckoning: Memories of 1971 Bangladesh War”, would be sufficient for the readers to evaluate reality and the intentions of such propaganda. For example a most common and propagated myth is



East Pakistan 1971: The Allegories and the Accuracy – I

Dec 18th, 2015 | By

By: Sohail Parwazon   Almost 44 years have passed but the wounds haven’t heeled yet. For those indifferent and heartless folks who considered the fall of Dhaka just as a geographical change it doesn’t matter much but those who have the hearts to cry for a motherland that was founded after the great sacrifices and lying



ROSES WERE RED BUT THE BLOOD TURNED WHITE

Dec 18th, 2015 | By

By Sohail Parwaz   It was a typical cold December morning of Peshawar with pale sunshine in the early hours of the day. Ever since the fall of Dhaka in 1971, 16 December is otherwise happens to be very morbid and melancholic every year. The life had already started in the city. The public was



Walking in fear as a Muslim

Dec 18th, 2015 | By

By Mubeen Shakir A 12-year-old girl is beaten at school in New York, is called “ISIS” and nearly has her hijab torn off by her classmates. A 16-year-old Somali American dies in a fall from a six-story building in Seattle that his family and the Muslim community in the city suspect was the result of



Pakistan Needs a Nuclear Future, Not a Nuclear Deal

Dec 18th, 2015 | By

By Rabia Akhtar A nuclear agreement between Pakistan and the United States benefits everyone. Except Pakistan. Regardless of the conditions, Pakistan should not pursue any civil nuclear agreement with the United States. Pakistan should review its national security concerns and decide whether it wants to be bound by the rules of conduct of an unbalanced



Mirwaiz demands removal of indian military camps from IOK

Nov 10th, 2015 | By

Mirwaiz demands removal of indian military camps from IOK Srinagar, November 10 : In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded immediate removal of Indian military camps from towns and villages in the territory. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is under house arrest at his residence in Srinagar, speaking to



Gilani denounces excessive use of force by India in IOK

Nov 10th, 2015 | By

Gilani denounces excessive use of force by India in IOK Srinagar, November 10 : In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has strongly condemned the use of excessive and brute force by Indian police and paramilitary personnel against the people at Nowhatta and Zainakote who were peacefully protesting against the cold-blooded murder



IOK police harass family members of JKMM leader

Nov 10th, 2015 | By

IOK police harass family members of JKMM leader Srinagar, November 09 : In occupied Kashmir, Indian police personnel barged into the house of Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement (JKMM) leader, Abdul Rashid Lone, at Tailbal in Srinagar and harassed his two daughters. Talking to Kashmir Media Service, the JKMM leader, Abdul Rashid Lone, expressed shock