ISLAMABAD: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will launch next year the second phase of community development programme in Azad Jammu and Kashmir with a financing of $36...
CDD will evolve from being a largely project-centred initiative to an approach that is mainstreamed into rural development planning and regular government budgets, with community organisations accessing provincial or local development...
The people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are sitting on a treasure chest: millions of rubies, estimated to be worth up to half a billion dollars, are lying beneath them...
Muhammad Azeem spends four months a year toiling in the Chitta Katha mine on the slopes of the Himalayas, which requires an eleven hour drive and then two hours walking to reach from Muzaffarabad...
Posters demanding freedom for Jammu and Kashmir and Indian states Tripura, Nagaland, and Manipur have appeared on metro buses and trams in Geneva while the 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is underway in the city...
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani claimed that the posters were an attack on Pakistan's sovereignty and demanded to know from Law Minister Zahid Hamid why the posters continue to be displayed in...
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Police on Friday claimed to have arrested three suspected agents of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) who were allegedly involved in anti-state activities, including the bombing of a police station...
"During preliminary investigations, Khalil disclosed that he had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) about 14 or 15 times, from different parts of Abbaspur sector, over the last two years, while his...
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday called on India to 'wake up', and warned New Delhi that: "You are losing Kashmir...
"And come down from your high horses...
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday met Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan at the General Headquarters (GHQ) to discuss the situation along the Line of Control, the Army's media wing said in a statement...
The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, stated in a tweet that the army chief had assured the AJK PM that the army is fully...
A fire destroyed over 90 shops, houses, vehicles and a food depot in a commercial area in the Leepa valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), officials and residents said on Monday...
Since nearly all affected structures were made from Deodar wood and connected with each other, the fire spread rapidly even as owners watched their belongings reduced to ashes, he said...
SRINAGAR: A spokesman for the Indian army said that militants stormed a military camp early on Saturday in India-held state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing two army personnel and wounding nine people...
Singh Jamwal, the inspector general of police in Jammu, said that at about 4:55am, a guard noticed suspicious movement before gunfire on his bunker...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday, expressed concern over the "atrocities and killing of innocent people in occupied Jammu and Kashmir," a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office said...
During the conversation, the prime minister underlined that India's move to change the status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir — which is internationally recognised as a...
India will formally split up occupied Jammu and Kashmir into two federal territories on Thursday, aiming to tighten its grip on the restive region that has been in the grip of a harsh security clampdown for nearly three months...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government withdrew occupied Kashmir’s autonomy in August but in addition, it also announced its division into two territories to be directly ruled from...
"All roads leading to the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar and other holy shrines and mosques in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir were sealed by the Indian occupation forces to stop any processions on this auspicious occasion, which is traditionally observed by Kashmiris with great fervour," read a statement issued by the FO...
SRINAGAR: Occupied Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of martyrdom of a man who was executed for allegedly taking part in an attack on India’s parliament in 2001...
Last month, India’s Supreme Court rebuked the government for shutting down the internet and blocking telecommunications in occupied Jammu and Kashmir...
The administration in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has decided to treat the entire Kashmir region as well as three districts in Jammu as red zones, or hotspots, to effectively combat coronvirus infections, it emerged on Tuesday...
The administration in its order declared the districts of Jammu, Samba and Kathua as red zones, Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, and Rajouri as orange zones while Doda, Kishtwar, and Poonch were declared as...
“The (Indian) MEA’s contentions about Jammu and Kashmir being the so-called ‘integral and inalienable part’ of India and an ‘internal affair’ are a laughable fiction, totally contrary to historical and legal facts and in violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions,” said Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Sunday...
“India’s self-serving claims regarding Jammu and Kashmir, including the...
Two low-intensity explosions were reported in the technical area of the Jammu Air Force Station in early on Sunday morning, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, adding that no equipment had been damaged...
An alert was also sounded across the Jammu division, the report said...