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KNO reports from Indian occupied Kashmir   Sopore, July 01:  Suspected militants attacked a party of paramilitary CRPF on Wednesday morning in North Kashmir’ Sopore town. Reports reaching news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that militants attacked a party of CRPF near model town Sopore. Talking to KNO, CRPF PRO Junaid Khan said that three paramilitary CRPF personnel were wounded in the attack. The post Kashmir: Militants attack Indian forces in Sopore, 3 CRPF men injured appeared first on KashmirWatch . from KashmirWatch via Download Jk News info Android App from play store and get all updates Click below link to Download 👇 http://bit.ly/Jkninfoandriodapp .

Istanbul, June 30:   Two-days International Kashmir Webinar was organized by the Faculty of Letters, Department of Urdu, Istanbul University on June 29 – 30, 2020. The participants unanimously adopted the following declaration at the end of the conference: KASHMIR: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS CONFERENCE Declaration 1. That there must be an early, just and durable resolution to the Jammu & Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions. 2. The United Nations Security Council had clearly enunciated that on the basis of the agreement concluded between India and Pakistan, “the final disposition of the state of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.” 3. The participants welcome the statement of Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General that the position of the Unit...

Photo credit: indiraivf dot com By Aimun Bilal   “Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD), also known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a very common condition affecting 5% to 10% of women in the age group 12–45 years. It is a problem in which a woman’s hormones are out of balance. It can cause problems with menstrual periods and make it difficult for her to conceive. The principal features include no ovulation, irregular periods, acne, and hirsutism. If not treated it can cause insulin-resistant diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol leading to heart disease.” (Ref: Columbiaindiahospitals dot com) In current times, almost 8 out of 10 girls are diagnosed with PCOD/PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Disease /Syndrome) which is a condition that affects one’s hormonal balance. Even though it’s getting common with each passing day, yet many girls/ women are unaware of this condition. However, it becomes important to obtain an understanding of the fact that how dangerous it can get if n...

ISLAMABAD, Jun 30: Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Tuesday said that India was undoubtedly involved in terrorist activities inside Pakistan, including the attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange as it was trying to destabilize the country and create an atmosphere of uncertainty. Speaking in the National Assembly soon after the passage of the annual budget, he especially mentioned the valour and huge sacrifices of police personnel and security guards who thwarted the terrorist attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Monday. He saluted the sacrifices of the ‘heroes of Pakistan’, including Sub-Inspector Shahid Shaheed, and stock exchange guards Ifitkhar, Khudayar and Hassan Ali. The latter’s sister suffered from cardiac arrest and could not survive on hearing the news of the incident. The prime minister further said the terrorists, armed with weapons, had arrived with nefarious designs to take people at the PSX as a hostage, but the police and security personnel frustrated their p...

Jahangeer Ganaie reports from Indian occupied Kashmir   Srinagar, June 30:  Sixty CRPF personnel, two soldiers and 11 cops were among 260 cases that tested positive in J&K Tuesday taking the total number of positive cases in the UT to7497. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reveals that among new cases that were detected in J&K, 139 were tested positive at SKIMS, 36 at JVC Bemina, 48 at CD hospital and rest at other hospitals. Among 260 new cases, 228 belong to Kashmir division while as 32 are from Jammu division, officials said, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division has reached to 5886 including 3564 recoveries and 89 deaths while as a total number of positive cases in Jammu division has reached to 1611 including 1158 recoveries and 12 deaths. The officials said that the total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 2674 including 2233 from the Kashmir division and 441 from the Jammu division. With 137 mor...

KNO reports from Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir Rajouri, June 30:  An alleged rape of a minor girl in Budhal area of Kotranka Sub-Division of Rajouri district of Jammu Tuesday triggered a strong wave of rage and anger among local residents, who have demanded stern punishment against the guilty.  Police sources revealed to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a minor girl (name withheld) was allegedly raped by a local boy in Budhal village triggering mass anger in the area.  They said that the incident took place late Monday evening. “The incident was brought into the notice of police after which a case was registered. Police took the cognizance of the matter,” police sources said.  Meanwhile, the incident has triggered mass anger across the district and evoked sharp criticism on social media with people demanding that the culprit be hanged in public. “Hang the culprit,” a netizen wrote on his Facebook Wall in response to a post—‘minor girl raped in Ra...

Islamabad; 29 June:  Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has said that the people of Pakistan and Kashmir have reposed their full trust in the Turkish leadership who have recognized the Kashmir matter as not a bilateral one but as an issue between Pakistan, India and the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “We urge Turkey to play a mediatory role in helping resolve this long-standing dispute”, said the President. The President made these remarks while addressing the opening session of the two-day international conference on “Kashmir: Regional and International Dimensions” organized by Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University. The event was attended by Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Turkey H.E Syrus Sajjad Qazi, Rector Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Mehmut AK, Member of Turkish Parliament and Chairman Turkey-Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group Mr. Ali Sahin, Lord Nazir Ahmed and Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai. The...

  Maj Gen ® Askari Raza Malik    Justice is the jugular vein of society. It must exist with all its sinews and made visible with all its transparency.  If justice delayed is justice denied, justice invisible is justice wasted, faded away into oblivion. Nebulous concepts like ‘justice at your doorsteps’, clutter the rhetoric. Across-the-board justice remains a dream unfulfilled.  Unfortunately, the present system of justice in Pakistan has largely failed to deliver. The Caliph enters the supreme court along with the petitioner. The Chief Justice rises from his seat to pay respect to the most powerful ruler of his time. The Caliph sacks the judge. A judge who makes a distinction between a caliph and an ordinary citizen is incapable of delivering justice. The same Caliph when challenged by an old woman in the famous ‘ Chadder and shirt episode’, he on the spot provided evidence to clarify his position. The history proudly recorded the message for posterity. T...

  Ehtisham Amer This piece is not about the environment or ecosystem. Sometimes headings can be misleading. So, you always do not buy a book by looking at its cover. There is a well-documented body of evidence on meteorology and environment which covers the essentials of the ecosystem working. One wants to use this metaphor for a more pressing geostrategic tussle occurring in our proximity.   China is the largest country when it comes to the world population. It is a pretty big geographically to accommodate the largest population and is doing perfectly fine to feed its people. So, there is, apparently, no need for it to expand by some 40 or 80 square kilometres in some of the most inhospitable terrains on the planet. I mean to refer to Ladakh and areas adjoining Tibet plateau.   If land grab is not what China is looking at or aiming for, then what is the explanation of the recent Sino-India military standoff? Well, what the Indian media tells us that China is all s...

Islamabad: Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has said that the law enforcement agencies of Pakistan successfully foiled a terrorist attack, today, targeting Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi. All four terrorists involved in the attempted attack were killed in the encounter. Four of our valiant law enforcement personnel embraced martyrdom. The externally-supported cowardly attack is another manifestation of the state-sponsored terrorism being perpetrated against Pakistan, which is highly condemnable. Pakistan has been consistently sensitizing the international community about the Indian leadership’s threatening statements to use terrorism as a tool to destabilize Pakistan. Pakistan has already shared with the international community, incriminating evidence about the Indian Intelligence Agency RAW’s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan. The comments made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) about the Karachi attack represent nothin...

By Sajjad Shaukat India which, apparently, claims to be the largest democracy, acting upon the principles of liberalism and secularism has broken all the records of mistreatment of religious minorities by the acceleration of violence, genocide and massacre, perpetrated on various ethnic and religious groups. Since Narendra Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became the Indian Prime Minister, he started implementing the ideology of Hindutva ((Hindu Nationalism). Under his regime, persecution of religious minorities such as Christians and particularly Muslims and Sikhs, including even of lower cast-Hindus have been intensified by the extremist Hindus. In this regard, in its annual report of 2017, Human Rights Watch which conducted investigative work in 2016 pointed out the Indian government’s failure to control growing attacks on Dalits and the religious minorities-Sikh community. The report elaborated, “Authorities continue to use sedition and criminal defamation laws to prosec...

  By Altaf Hussain Wani COVID-19 has swept across the world leaving very few countries unscathed. Even the most powerful nations with robust economies, state of the art technology and up-to-date healthcare systems have been left in chaos in the face of the pandemic.  Declaring a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern with the potential of causing large scale deaths worldwide.” An important statement from UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, followed on 23 March with a call for a global ceasefire urging warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19. Terming it as a threat to humankind Mr. Guterres expressed serious concerns over fragile health care systems in conflict-hit states and emphasized that the backdrop of war would make it near impossible to c...

  MUZAFFARABAD, June 28: While welcoming US democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden’s statements over the restoration of rights of Kashmiris, Azad Jammu and Kashmir President, Sardar  Masood   Khan  has said Biden’s remarks are a proof that world community had refused to buy the Indian narrative on the Kashmir.   The Democratic Party leader Joe Biden has asked Delhi to take all necessary steps to restore the rights of all the people of Kashmir and asserted that restrictions on dissent, such as preventing peaceful protests or shutting or slowing down the Internet, weakens democracy. Biden also expressed disappointment over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the enforcement of the NRC in different states of India.   “We welcome democratic party leader’s remarks and urge Indian-Americans and Muslim-Americans to applaud Joe Biden’s policy statement together because nobody wants India to be ruled by theocratic fascists. Kas...

Jahangeer Ganaie reports Indian occupied Kashmir Srinagar, June 29:  With no access to the internet and subsequently to online classes teachers in upper reaches and remote areas of Kashmir valley reaches out to students even as schools remain closed in view of Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers in these areas have started imparting lessons to the students by teaching them under the open sky in nearby forest areas or in the lawns of their houses. One among those teachers is Ghulam Rasool, a government teacher posted at primary school Wehnard in Pahalgam who teaches the students under open sky who have no access to the internet. The students mostly belong to tribal communities who don’t have access to the internet and can’t afford to buy smartphones, thereby depriving them of the provisions of online classes. We heard which falls close to the tourist destination Pahalgam has no internet facility and subsequently, students of this village have no access to online classes. Ghulam Ra...

WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential nominee and former US vice president Joe Biden wants India to restore the rights of people of occupied Kashmir and has expressed disappointment over recent constitutional amendments that specifically target Muslims. In a policy paper —  “Agenda for Muslim American community”  — posted recently on his campaign website, Mr Biden clubbed Kashmir and Assam in India with the forced detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims in western China, and discrimination and atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority. “In Kashmir, the Indian government should take all necessary steps to restore rights for all the people of Kashmir. Restrictions on dissent, such as preventing peaceful protests or shutting or slowing down the Internet, weaken democracy,” says the paper while outlining the policies Mr Biden will pursue if elected president in November. “Joe Biden has been disappointed by the measures that the government of India has taken with th...

In a voice message, the veteran leader cites present circumstances in Hurriyat as reason, says all constituents informed about his decision’ KNO reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Srinagar, June 29:  In a surprising development, Jammu and Kashmir Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani today announced to quit from the “Hurriyat forum” citing present circumstances as the reason. In a short audio message received by news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Geelani says, “keeping in view the present situation in Hurriyat Conference, I announce to part ways from the Hurriyat forum. The decision has been conveyed to all the constituents of Hurriyat through official letters.” The post Ailing Geelani throws surprise, says ‘I quit from Hurriyat forum’ appeared first on KashmirWatch . from KashmirWatch via Download Jk News info Android App from play store and get all updates Click below link to Download 👇 http://bit.ly/Jkninfoandriodapp .

                                                                      By Aimun Bilal   “English language is a strange paradise. It’s where fish flies and sparrow swims” – Vishal Yadav Living in the world where some great authors have touched the hearts of millions and others who have made reading certain pieces of writings possible for us by translating certain pieces of work in order to be understandable by a larger audience, it’s saddening to see how little their efforts and profession is acknowledged or considered important. However, the fact remains that English is one of those subjects that require a good IQ level as well as an ability...

By U.K. Dar Prime Minister Imran Khan was very optimistic rather he prayed that Narendra Modi gets elected in India in 2019 general elections; as he genuinely believed that Pakistan had better chances of resolving long outstanding issues including the core issues of Kashmir with India led by a strong nationalist leader from right-wing BJP. “Perhaps if the BJP— a right-wing party — wins, some kind of settlement in Kashmir could be reached,” he had hoped. His prayers did come true as Narendra Modi got elected but alas his wishes for resolution of disputes and a peaceful co-existence with India could not. The Indian government immediately blamed Pakistan when a vehicle-borne suicide bomber attacked Indian security forces in Pulwama. Though it was later revealed that it was a task of a lone wolf, a resident of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), the government of India retaliated by first revoking Pakistan’s most favoured nation status then inc...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s civil and military leaders are repeatedly pointing out that India is planning another false flag operation against Pakistan in order to divert attention from its internal issues and failure of external policy. In this regard, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on June 23, this year: “India is hiding its face after facing humiliation defeat by China…the officials of Indian High Commission in Islamabad should be readied to leave the country if Pakistani diplomatic staff are expelled by New Delhi…Indian authorities levelled baseless allegations against the officials of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and the country was finding excuses to stage a false flag operation…the foreign ministry has categorically rejected the allegations levelled by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and termed it as an attempt to divert attention from its state terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir…The world is witnessing the Islamophobia in India besides obser...