Breaking the silence over Kashmir

21st July 2019 Ershad Mahmud The UN report on human rights situation in Azad Kashmir and Indian-occupied Kashmir means that the international community is waking up to the Kashmiris’ plight...

Cross LoC traders meet in Tashkent, seek restoration of intra-Kashmir trade

19th July 2019 Various representatives of regional chambers of commerce and industry, associations and federations of cross-LoC traders and some independent entrepreneurs from Jammu and Kashmir and...

Exploring Cross-LoC Trade Potential of Azad Jammu and Kashmir

18th July 2019 Atiq-ur-Rehman 1: Background The experience of trade between two parts of the divided Kashmir has been more successful than the expectations. Despite the harsh political circumstances...

Azad Jammu Kashmir Constitutional amendment ushers in new era of progress and development

16th July 2019 Altaf Hamid Rao Mirpur After the 13th amendment in the Interim Constitution Act 1974 of Azad Jammu Kashmir, a record amount of sixteen billion rupees were collected in the fiscal year...

Kashmir under siege

02nd June 2019 Ershad Mahmud A new report highlights how torture is used as a matter of policy by the Indian state in Jammu and Kashmir. A recently released 560-page report on human rights situation...

An ill-timed move

28th April 1999 Ershad Mahmud In the absence of banking and communication facilities, cross-LoC trade had made a remarkable contribution to the improvement of the economic conditions of marginalised...

Governance in Kashmir

28th April 2019 Qaiser Khan A book that offers an objective analysis of major failures of governance in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir. A recently published book titled What Happened to Governance in...

Campaign for empowered local governments kicks start in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

21st April 2019 Press Release Around two dozen activists from various political parties, youth groups and civil society got together and decided to start a campaign for the early initiation of local...