2020 – Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR)

December 28, 2020
News / Views

Intellect class endorses long-cherished demand for holding of Civic Elections in AJK

28th December 2020 Altaf Hamid Rao MIRPUR, (Parliament Times): Former Chief Justice of Azad Jammu Kashmir Justice [Retd] Muhammad Azam Khan has strongly endorsed the long-standing demand of the...

November 3, 2020
Young Voices on Kashmir

Education during the Pandemic

03rd November 2020 Ishba Aziz Khan It was the 12th of March when I returned from university and after taking a bit of rest, I started studying for the...

October 22, 2020
Young Voices on Kashmir

REVIEW: The local government system in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

22nd October 2020 Reviewed by Hunain Mahmood A 30-page report on the Local Government System in Azad Jammu and Kashmir has recently been published by Centre for Peace, Development...

October 19, 2020
Empowerment of Business Community

Issues surrounding the Economy of Azad Kashmir: A Businessman’s Perspective

19th October 2020 Chaudhary Ghulam Murtaza Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) can be divided into two geographical clusters; the Northern part comprises of the capital Muzaffarabad and Poonch while...

October 16, 2020
Capacity Building of Young People

Gilgit-Baltistan Elections — Fact Sheet 2020

16 October 2020 Irtaza Muhammad IntroductionGilgit -Baltistan (GB) is an autonomous region located in the Northern part of Pakistan with a separate government and electoral system. The region was...

October 16, 2020
Capacity Building of Young People

A case for Local Bodies System in AJ&K

16 October 2020 Ahmad Saleem The interpretation of Rousseau’s concept of the social contract has been tremendously distorted and disfigured in its arduous journey from the plains of Western...

October 15, 2020
Capacity Building of Young People

Track II; inevitably, we shall also see the day

Qaiser Khan For our elder generations, partition was an inevitable event that happened in the heat of the moment and gave birth to the two dominions of India and...

October 14, 2020
Capacity Building of Young People

Exploring the ‘track’ less traveled by

Ayesha Gardazi If an outsider were to walk into that hall with no idea of what was going on there, he would have mistaken that group from two supposed...

October 10, 2020
News / Views

AJK Youth seeks unconditional restoration of Local Bodies in the State:

10th October 2020 Altaf Hamid Rao MIRPUR, (Parliament Times): CPDR – Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms, a world-fame AJK-based Kashmiri non-governmental outfit unveiled a report titled “The Local...

September 30, 2020
Young Voices on Kashmir

Oral History: Blurred-Memories of bygone Cinemas in Azad Kashmir

30th September 2020 Komal Raja I grew up in Azad Kashmir where cinema was non-existent. Thought of the region without a cinema never struck me as hard as it...