2022 – Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR)

December 21, 2022
News / Views

Call for empowering women to advance society

21st December 2022 Syed Abbas Gardezi Muzaffarabad This was said by National Defence University (NDU) Professor Dr Shaheen Akhtar on Tuesday. She was leading a training session that the...

November 24, 2022
News / Views

Covid-19 adversely affected nascent tourism sector in AJK

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...

October 2, 2022
News / Views

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...

September 27, 2022
Governance

Call to hold LG polls in Azad Kashmir on regular basis

27th September 2022 Iftikhar A. Khan Educationist Kousar Hussain Shah said that local government bodies are kept inactive under various pretexts. If there were strong local government bodies, more...

September 27, 2022
Governance

‘LB elections to change AJK’s political, economic structure’

27th September 2022 Syed Abbas Gardezi Muzaffarabad/Bagh The leaders of different political parties and prominent social activists on Monday, appreciating the holding of local bodies elections in Azad Jammu...

August 24, 2022
Press Release, Tourism and Peacebuilding

ANALYSIS – High time to reconnect Central and South Asia through Kashmir

24 August 2022 Press Release Courtesy: Anadolu Agency (AA) Once a highly connected region is now least linked geography in world due to trust deficit and lack of political...

August 22, 2022
Women Mediators

Kashmiri women seek inclusivity, equity and justice:

22nd August 2022 Altaf Hamid Rao MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times): “Women have to get hold of the wheel of their life; think about the top priorities, growth areas, and...

August 18, 2022
Young Voices on Kashmir

Can the youth of Pakistan afford to be apolitical?

18th August 2022 Ishba Aziz Khan Pakistan today is facing the biggest political instability and is at the point where there is a lot of chaos, confusion and disturbance...

August 14, 2022
Women Mediators

Call to ensure participation of women in decision making

14th August 2022 Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Women’s participation in decision making must be ensured at all levels as women have some inbuilt negotiation capability and better skills to...

August 5, 2022
News / Views

Opinion: Criminalizing dissent in Kashmir

5th 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...