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February 2, 2024
News / Views

Reforms in AJK Local Bodies Act imminent: Seminar

02 February 2024 Altaf Hamid Rao ISLAMABAD. ( Parliament Times): A multi-party seminar emphasised the need of bringing about due reforms to ensure effective Local Bodies in Azad Jammu...

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March 8, 2023
News / Views

Modi’s Final Assault on India’s Press Freedom Has Begun

The police standing guard outside the office building where Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s office in New Delhi last month.Credit...Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

January 24, 2023
News / Views

Financially, administratively empowered LG system demanded in Azad Kashmir

24th January 2023 Iftikhar A. Khan Islamabad: Over 40 elected councillors along with civil society representatives have called for a financially and administratively empowered local government (LG) system in...

December 21, 2022
News / Views

Call for empowering women to advance society

21st December 2022 Syed Abbas Gardezi Muzaffarabad This was said by National Defence University (NDU) Professor Dr Shaheen Akhtar on Tuesday. She was leading a training session that the...

November 24, 2022
News / Views

Covid-19 adversely affected nascent tourism sector in AJK

24th November 2022 Iftikhar A. Khan Islamabad The bulging tourism sector has suffered horrendously in Azad Jammu and Kashmir leaving almost half a million people associated with the industry...

October 2, 2022
News / Views

Saving Siachen

2nd October 2022 Ershad Mahmud India-Pakistan talks on Siachen glacier can serve as a start for a broader process of normalisation of relations between the two countries. The way...

September 27, 2022
Governance

Call to hold LG polls in Azad Kashmir on regular basis

27th September 2022 Iftikhar A. Khan Educationist Kousar Hussain Shah said that local government bodies are kept inactive under various pretexts. If there were strong local government bodies, more...

September 27, 2022
Governance

‘LB elections to change AJK’s political, economic structure’

27th September 2022 Syed Abbas Gardezi Muzaffarabad/Bagh The leaders of different political parties and prominent social activists on Monday, appreciating the holding of local bodies elections in Azad Jammu...

August 24, 2022
Tourism and Peacebuilding

ANALYSIS – High time to reconnect Central and South Asia through Kashmir

24 August 2022 Press Release Courtesy: Anadolu Agency (AA) Once a highly connected region is now least linked geography in world due to trust deficit and lack of political...

August 22, 2022
Women Mediators

Kashmiri women seek inclusivity, equity and justice:

22nd August 2022 Altaf Hamid Rao MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times): “Women have to get hold of the wheel of their life; think about the top priorities, growth areas, and...