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  Zulfiqar Ali   As India celebrates the third anniversary of India’s so-called surgical strikes, there is a lurking feeling that India has still not officially provided any details of those strikes.   The only account of those details came from Indian journalist Praveen Swami in a report published a few days after the alleged strikes. What he euphemistically termed “graphic details”, however, appeared to be an effort to appease the Indian political and military establishment. Swami claimed that he gathered his information from five people living on the Pakistani side whom he contacted through their relatives on the Indian side. He wrote that the eyewitness accounts corroborated Indian intelligence records obtained by Indian Express. According to Swami’s own admission, his most detailed account comes from two witnesses of Dudhnial village in Neelum Valley. Swami’s witnesses saw “a gutted house” in the village from the main market on the other sid...

MUZAFFARABAD, September 28: Former Chairman Parliamentary Kashmir Committee on Kashmir and the chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman called on AJK President Sardar Masood Khan here on Monday.   The whole spectrum of Kashmir issue, including Indian Army’s brutalities in occupied territory, systematic ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri people, mass demographic change in Muslim majority disputed state, India’s unlawful actions prejudicial to the UN resolutions and international laws figured during the meeting.   Sardar Masood appealed to Maulana Fazlur Rehman to approach the leadership of Jamiyat Ulemae Islam Hind and other religious leaders in India to seek their help for the prevention of bloodshed and cessation of  heinous crimes against humanity in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.   The AJK President said that besides the carnage of defenceless and innocent civilians in occupied Kashmir, India’s rulers are implementing their evil agenda to change demography ...

  Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar has said that Indian aggressive behavior and ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) gave an indication of a full-scale war between India and Pakistan.   “The threat of a full-scale between India and Pakistan exists as such instances have been witnessed during the past and its main reason is India’s belligerence and preparations,” he told the private channel during the visit of a foreign delegation to the LoC, arranged by the ISPR the other day.   The DG ISPR said when he said that it is a time to go beyond negotiations, its major focus is towards the International community. Pointing out the escalated ceasefire violations committed by India along the LoC, he said “That’s needed to be stopped and for this to stop, the International community has to come in.”   Iftikhar said the ceasefire violations frequency along the LoC was different from 2014 as there was a m...

Geneva: India becomes under severe criticism at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva where reputed international rights groups during a day-long debate took a dig at the BJP government for human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir urging the Council to impress upon the Indian government to hold accountable members of its security forces involved in heinous crimes such as torture, arbitrary detentions, killings, and forced disappearances. Taking part in a debate held under agenda item 3, here on Saturday, the representatives of International Muslim Women Union (IMWU), World Muslim Congress (WMC), Community Human Rights and Advocacy Center (CHR&AC) and Amnesty International voiced their serious concerns over the dire political and human rights situation in the disputed territory. Speaking on the occasion the CHR&AC representative Ms. Eemaan Gilani, while referring to the genesis of the Kashmir dispute said, “Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory, UN has passed a numb...

Amjed Jaaved Indian media is never tired of describing Pakistan as a hub of money laundering and terror financing in the world.  Indian representatives echoed their babble in recent United Nations meetings also. India makes no bones in declaring its intention to link Pulwama blasts with money trail to Pakistan. By doing so India hopes to get Pakistan blacklisted by Financial Action Task Force. Little focus on money laundering and terror financing by India : Nowadays, Major powers’ geopolitical and economic interests have forced them to ignore suspicious financial transactions by India. However, not long ago, the world was more concerned about money laundering in India than in Pakistan. Even the USA called upon India to do more to prevent the financing of terror networks. USA’s Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Anthony Wayne told the Senate Banking Committee, ‘In India, two accounts belonging to terrorist individuals/entities have been identified, bu...

  ISLAMABAD, Sep 25: Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned and sought independent investigation into the gruesome killing of prominent Kashmiri lawyer and activist, Babar Qadri, who was shot dead by unidentified attackers in Srinagar, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on Thursday. “Another voice critical of Indian atrocities and human rights’ violations in IIOJK has been silenced through an extra-judicial murder,” a Foreign Office statement issued here said. “The authorities in IIOJK have snapped draconian laws including Unauthorized Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), Public Safety Act (PSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), to silence any dissenting voice.” “More than 300 Kashmiris have been extra-judicially killed during the last one year in fake encounters and so-called ’cordon and search’ operations. Babar Qadri is another Kashmiri victim of the Indian state terrorism,” it added. India must realize that brutalization of Kashmiri people cannot we...

  UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26: Pakistan hit back at India at the U.N. after New Delhi’s representative claimed Jammu and Kashmir as India’s “integral part” and alleged that Islamabad promoted terrorism, with the Pakistani delegate asserting that the Himalayan state is an internationally-recognized disputed territory. “In Jammu and Kashmir, India has no other claim than that of a military occupier,” Zulqarnain Chheena, the Pakistani delegate, told the General Assembly on Friday night while rejecting Indian claims. “India is compelled to use naked force to impose its occupation on an unwilling and oppressed people,” he added. The Pakistani delegate was reacting to the Indian representative, Mijito Vinito, who, while exercising his right of reply to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech, said that the Pakistani leader interfered in the internal affairs of India by raising the Kashmir dispute at the U.N. In his statement to the 193-member Assembly, Imran Khan shed a spotlight on Prime Min...

NEW YORK, Sep 23: The refusal by leading Western countries to call out human rights abuses by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has only emboldened him in pushing his anti-Muslim agenda, the head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), a prominent international watchdog body, has said. “Modi has largely got away with his anti-Muslim agenda and his oppression of protests against it, that is the relative lack of criticism from the West has only emboldened him on this abusive path,” Kenneth Roth, HRW’s executive director, said in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, a widely circulated American magazine. In the Indian state of Assam, he said, 1.9 million Muslims were made stateless, as part of Modi’s anti-Muslim agenda. Roth said the desire of leading countries in the West to use India as a counterweight to China’s power and influence as well as the unprincipled approach to human rights pursued by US President Donald Trump had only emboldened the Indian prime minister’s decision to undermine th...

By Sajjad Shaukat When during the regime of the President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan initiated the construction of Gwadar deep-seaport in Balochistan province in March 2002 with Chinese assistance, sirens went off in the capitals of some European countries, especially the US, India and Israel which took it as a threat to their global and regional plans. Located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, Balochistan’s Gwadar seaport is close to the Strait of Hormuz from where more than 17 million barrels of oil pass every day. Its ideal location among South Asia, the oil-rich Middle East, and oil and gas-resourced Central Asia has further increased its strategic significance. Besides, Balochistan’s abundant mineral resources irritate the eyes of the America, India and Israel which intend to destabilize Pakistan for their collective aims, as the latter is also the only nuclear country in the Islamic World. However, development in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan has shifted the grav...

  Geneva: Lambasting the government of Indian for committing gross human rights violations in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the representatives of reputed international human rights watchdogs have urged the UN Human Rights Council to conduct a comprehensive independent investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed by Indian forces in Indian occupied Kashmir.   Taking part in the debate held under the agenda Item 3 the representative of World Muslim Congress (WMC), Prof. Mehmath shakru Guzel said, “Kashmir problem is a problem of decolonization and for this there is no need Kashmir to be in the list of decolonization of the UN General Assembly resolution 66 of 14 December 1946”. “Since India had defined Kashmir problem is under Article 73 of the UN Charter in 1947, Kashmir becomes not only the object of international concern but as well under the erga omnes responsibility for all the member States and the bodies of the UN”, Professor Guzel s...

Abid Bashir reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Srinagar, Sep 25:  Inspector General of Police Kashmir range Vijay Kumar Friday said that the results of DNA samples of parents of three youth from Rajouri district have matched with those killed in Amshipora, Shopian on July 18 this year and police will now take further course of action. “We have received the DNA sample results of three families of Rajouri and they have matched with those killed in Amshipora, Shopian. We will now take further course of action and complete remaining formalities,” Kumar told media men at the police control room (PCR) Srinagar, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) Police had collected six DNA samples from the parents of three slain youth killed in Amshipora, Shopian on July 18. A police team from Kashmir had visited Rajouri and collected DNA samples of parents of three youth. It is after a gap of 40 days, that the DNA samples matched between the families and the slain youth. On September ...

KNO reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Srinagar, Sep 24:  A prominent lawyer from Srinagar, Advocate Babar Qadri was shot dead by the unknown gunmen in Hawal area of Srinagar, officials said. Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Advocate Babar Qadri, a young lawyer was fired upon by the unknown gunmen in Hawal area. They said the Advocate was shifted to SKIMS hospital soon after he was attacked. However, the officials from SKIMS told KNO that Qadri was declared brought dead at the hospital. The post Advocate Babar Qadri shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kashmir 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 Zaheerul Hassan Two nuclear neighbours’ reinforced their forces after developing tension on 3379.6224 Km (2100 Miles) long   Actual   Line of Control (ALC) where the killing of 20 Indians and some Chinese soldiers took placed in June 2020. The tension multiplied further when both the countries refused to step back on their actual position. Starting from 1962 to till 2020, the four deadliest conflicts had been taken place between China and India.   Meanwhile, American President Donald Trump contrary to the statement of his spokesman over China -Taiwan issue,  offered to mediate in reducing military tension, Trump also offered to help in settling down the territorial dispute between two Himalayan countries being faced even before their inceptions.  Actually, Trump’s such offers cannot be taken as sincere and serious efforts because Washington’s real policy is totally different towards China what he portraying. It is just a Trump campaign for winning Nobel Priz...

Urges world leaders to follow the suit Islamabad: Appreciating Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for reiterating his unflinching support to Kashmiris’ legitimate cause senior Hurriyat leader and Chairman Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) Altaf Hussain Wani has urged the world leaders to follow the suit and raise voice for the voiceless people of the Indian occupied Kashmir. In a statement issued here on Thursday, the KIIR chief while expressing his gratitude to the Turkish president said, “Kashmiris living on both sides of the ceasefire line (CFL) owe a debt of gratitude to the brotherly country for its continued and consistent support for the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict”. Turkey, he said, is one of the countries that besides raising the Kashmir issue at every international forum has strongly condemned India’s illegal occupation and the atrocities being inflicted upon the people of Kashmir by Indian forces. Referring to Erdogan’s landmark speec...

Naveed Ul Haq reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Budgam, Sep 24:  An Indian paramilitary CRPF trooper died after militants attacked him in Sarai Wadipora, Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district this morning, officials said. The service rifle of the CRPF Jawan was also snatched by militants. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that suspected militants lobbed a grenade on CRPF at Naka in the Sarai area which was followed by firing. “One CRPF trooper was wounded in the firing. He was removed to the hospital where he succumbed,” the official said. CRPF spokesman Pankaj Singh said that one Jawan identified as N Badolay from Nagpur who was injured in the militant attack succumbed. “His rifle is missing as well,” Singh told KNO. A police officer confirmed the incident to KNO and said that the whole area has been cordoned to nab the attackers. The post Kashmir: CRPF man killed in militant attack at Wadipora, Budgam, riffle snatched too appeared firs...

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22: Turkey told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan was a “burning issue”, and called for resolving it through dialogue.’ “The Kashmir conflict, which is also key to the stability and peace of South Asia, is still a burning issue,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech he made via video-link to the 193-member Assembly’s landmark 75th session. “Steps taken following the abolition of the special status of Jammu-Kashmir further complicated the problem,” he said, referring to the August 5, 2019, unilateral move by India to annex the disputed territory. “We are in favour of solving this issue through dialogue, within the framework of the United Nations resolutions and especially in line with the expectations of the people of Kashmir,” the Turkish leader added. The Kashmir dispute between is on the agenda of the UN Security Council, which has adopted at least 11 resolutions since 1948 that call for a...

New Delhi (PR): “Today Kashmiris do not feel Indian and do not want to be Indian … They are slaves … They would rather have the Chinese rule them … every Kashmiri believes the new domicile laws are intended to create a hindu majority … the gap between  Kashmiris and the rest of the country is wider than ever before and growing … Modi deliberately deceived me in August 2019 but I will fight to restore the dignity of Kashmiris till my last breath … the Abdullahs and Muftis have come together in Kashmir’s greater interest and now Mehbooba is politically close to Omar and me; I speak to her frequently”: Farooq Abdullah, President National Conference, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Lok Sabha MP.  In a powerful and passionate interview with frequent flashes of anger and displays of emotion, Farooq Abdullah has said that at this moment the Kashmiri people do not feel and do not want to be Indian. He even went so far as to say that they would rather be ruled by the C...

Naveed Ul Haq reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Budgam, Sep 23 (KNO):  Family of youth from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, who has joined militancy, Wednesday appealed their son to return for the sake of his pregnant wife and four-year-old son. A youth Tariq Ahmed Bhat of Hanjigund Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district joined militancy recently forcing his family to make an appeal to return soon. According to a video available with news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the family members are requesting militants to send their son, who is an auto driver by profession, back home. Tariq  has announced through audio which went viral that he has joined the militant ranks. His family members said that they have approached the police station Chadoora on 20 September and lodged a missing report about their son. “We are shocked because we never believed that Tariq was inclined towards militancy. But we request him to come back to home for his 4 year old son, ...

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “The people of the State of Jammu & Kashmir have no words to express their heartfelt thanks to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Republic of Turkey for reiterating one more time his Administrations support for the just cause of Kashmir. His words today at the 75 th  session of the United Nations General Assembly have become source of inspiration and given hope to millions of hopeless people of the region. His statement at the United Nations General Assembly was the true reflection of the aspirations of the people of Kashmir. His reference to Kashmir is a statement of facts when he said, “The Kashmir conflict, which is also key to the stability and peace of South Asia, is still a burning issue. Steps taken following the abolition of the special status of Jammu – Kashmir further complicated the problem. We are in favour of solving this issue through dialogue, within the framework of the United Nations resolutions and especially in line with ...

KNO reports from Indian occupied Kashmir Srinagar, Sep 22:  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday conducted searches at multiple locations in Baramulla-Uri and one location in Srinagar in connection with the Hizbul Mujahideen militant Naveed Babu case and Cross-border Trade case. In a statement issued here to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that in the Hizbul Mujahideen militant Naveed Babu case, houses of close associates of accused Tariq Mir r/o Maldera, Shopian, who was arrested by NIA on April 29 this year for his role in smuggling and supply of weapons to HM militants, were searched—Azad Ahmad Pir r/o Dardkote, Uri,  Haleema Begum r/o Boniyar, Baramulla, Shaheen Lone r/o Kanspora, Baramulla, working as an Inspector in Power Development Department and His father-  in-law’s house at Waza Mohalla, Palhalan, Baramulla, was also searched—Shareen Bibi w/o accused Tariq Mir r/o Chinad, Baramulla. “Tafazul Parimoo r/o Rehmatabad, Hyderpora, Budgam,” the ...

ISLAMABAD, Sep 21 (APP): Describing terrorism, extremism, sectarian violence and murders in the name of religion as “anti-Islam”, the leaders of all schools of thought and religions on Monday announced their complete detachment from it. This was stated in a joint declaration issued at the conclusion of the Wahdat-e-Ummat Conference held here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr and was attended by Ulema and Mashaikh belonging to various schools of thought. The conference among others was addressed by President Dr. Arif Alvi, Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony Pir Noorul Haq Qadri as well as Ulema and Mashaikh belonging to various schools of thought. “No Speaker, Khateeb, Zakir, Preacher will indulge in the disrespect or blasphemy of Prophets (AS), Ahle Bait, (RA), Sahaba-e-Rasool (RA), Khulfai-e-Rashideen (RA), Azwaj-e-Mutaharat (RA), Aima-e-Athar (AS) and Hazrat Imam Mehdi (AS), and if anybody indulges in this, all schools of thought announce their detachment from it. Such a per...