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 Kashmir for tackling impending climate crises in the region.

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

08th March 2023 |By Anuradha Bhasin (Ms. Bhasin is the executive editor of The Kashmir Times.)

On the evening of Oct. 19, 2020, as reporters and photographers for The Kashmir Times rushed to meet deadlines, government officials and the police swept into the newspaper’s offices in the city of Srinagar, chased out the staff and put a lock on the door that remains to this day.

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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 Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). They have also urged the government to organise training and capacity-building workshops to enable councillors to discharge their responsibilities effectively.

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Call for empowering women to advance society

21st December 2022 | Syed Abbas Gardezi

Muzaffarabad: Women participation at both micro and macro levels empowers them to develop the ability and competence to counter conflicts peacefully. Without a vocal approach and constructive intervention, it is difficult to women to act as leaders and change-makers.

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Covid-19 adversely affected nascent tourism sector in AJK: report

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 high and dry because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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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 recent floods submerged a large part of Pakistan, leaving over 30 million people homeless, shows that natural calamities like floods, earthquakes and heat waves recognise no borders. In the recent past; Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh have witnessed massive disasters, i.e, earthquakes, floods, and droughts. Scientific research shows that the entire region is at high risk for more disasters in the days to come. Thus, it is high time to consider developing a regional framework to tackle natural disasters.

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راؤنڈٹیبل بلدیاتی الیکشن: خواتین اور نوجوانوں کاکردار

Opinion: Criminalizing dissent in Kashmir

5^th August 2022 | Ershad Mahmud
Since the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution three years ago on August 5, 2019, Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir has become a land where the silence of graveyards, not of peace, reigns supreme.

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Opinion: Anatomy of a budget

1^st July 2022 | Ershad Mahmud
The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir presented a budget of Rs163.7 billion for the next fiscal year in the legislative assembly a few days ago.

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Opinion: A snub to the BJP

16^th June 2022 | Ershad Mahmud
For the first time in the last eight years, the BJP government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has succumbed to foreign pressure and removed two spokespersons for making derogatory and hateful remarks regarding Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the last week of May.

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