2015 – Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR)

November 23, 2015
News / Views

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...

November 23, 2015
News / Views

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...

October 22, 2015
Tourism and Peacebuilding

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 (PAITHOM),...

October 15, 2015
Tourism and Peacebuilding

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...

October 15, 2015
News / Views

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 religious and...

September 11, 2015
News / Views

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...

September 4, 2015
News / Views

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 is...

August 29, 2015
News / Views

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 and...

August 29, 2015
News / Views

Journalists across LoC decide to set up mechanism to share content, discuss mutual issues

29th August 2015 Faisul Yaseen At a first of its kind of interaction, journalists across LoC decided to set-up a mechanism of sharing content including both news and views,...

August 28, 2015
News / Views

Kashmir journalists’ delegation returns from Pakistan

28th August 2015 Srinagar ‘Looking forward to enhanced contacts across the border’ Rising Kashmir News Srinagar:The 12-member delegation of journalists from Kashmir Thursday returned from its week-long visit to...