Petition update – Roundtable discussion: Call for empowerment of AJK’s democratic institutions

10th January 2016 Mirpur Participants at a roundtable discussion on Monday called for a transparent and a more effective autonomous democratic system of governance in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)...

Pak traders call for end to Indo-Pak hostilities on LoC

23rd November 2015 Islamabad CDPR hosts workshop for better trade deliberations – Rising Kashmir Desk Traders from Pakistan have called for peace in Jammu and Kashmir and pressed for cessation...

Traders seek structural changes, better mechanisms in cross LoC

23rd November 2015 Mariana Baabar Islamabad Nothing comes easily for Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC), not even trade, which started in 2008 after 60 years of conflict as a...

CPDR and PAITHOM sign MoU

22 October 2015 Ershad Mahmud Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pak Austrian Institute of Tourism & Hospitality Management...

Capacity Building and Skill Enhancement Program For the Promotion of Tourism

Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) appeared on the map of tourism very recently.The aggravating law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, unsafe travel on the Karakoram Highway and proximity of AJK with...

India’s Systematic Fragmentation of Kashmiri Society is to Weaken the Case of Self Determination

15th October 2015 Islamabad Khurram Pervez, a Srinagar-based leading human rights activist said that India is systematically fragmenting communities in Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir on the...

Two Nation Practice

11th September 2015 Mehmood ur Rashid Sirinagar 2005 earthquake that shook Muzaffarabad, and 2014 floods that drowned Srinagar; did anyone say Jinnah! Let’s begin with an unpleasant news, by...

You can’t have a Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark

04th September 2015 Faisul Yaseen Pakistan won’t accept any talks without Kashmir: Mushahid Hussain Chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Defence, Mushahid Hussain Syed says if India-Pakistan relation...

dna in Pakistan: West will not allow Indo-Pak impasse to continue for long, feel peaceniks

29th August 2015 Journalist-turned politician Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, also Chairman of Senate Defence Committee, says it was a rare moment in Pakistan politics, when military, public opinion...