Opinion: Anatomy of a budget
01st July 2022 Ershad Mahmud The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir presented a budget of Rs163.7 billion for the next fiscal year in the legislative assembly a few...
Launching Event of the Report, “Building Sustainable Tourism in AJ&K”
Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR) in collaboration with the University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir launched a report on “Building Sustainable Tourism in AJK”, on June 21,...
Opinion: A snub to the BJP
16th June 2022 Ershad Mahmud For the first time in the last eight years, the BJP government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has succumbed to foreign pressure and...
Opinion: Saving Yasin Malik
2nd June 2022 Ershad Mahmud The life imprisonment sentence given to Yasin Malik by an Indian court has brought the Kashmir conflict back into the international spotlight. The sentence...
Global Warming: AJ&K at High Risk of Suffering, speakers urge
20th May 2022 Islamabad Press Release Pakistan is one of the eight countries in the world that will be affected the most by natural disasters due to climate change....
Kashmir at the OIC
30th March 2022 Ershad Mahmud The recently held OIC Council of Foreign Ministers’ conference in Islamabad is a great diplomatic achievement for Pakistan against the backdrop of the complex...
Throttling journalism in IIOJK
29th March 2022 Irtaza Muhammad While independent and investigative journalism is taken as an essential part of a pluralistic society the world over, working in this field in Indian...
Due facilitation to AJK business community urged to unleash its true potential through E-commerce
08th March 2022 Altaf Hamid Rao MIrpur “The policy advocacy skill is an essential component of business leadership as it empowers people to create consensus-based solutions to complex issues”,...
A home for the homeless
11th February 2022 Ershad Mahmud It was a mere coincidence that I met 24-year-old Mr Shehzad Latif at a youth training workshop in Mirpur a few years ago. Like...
CPDR holds roundtable to promote sustainable tourism in AJK
28th January 2022 Dr. Shaheen Akhtar Islamabad “Building Sustainable Tourism in AJK,” while addressing a roundtable organised by the Centre for Peace, Development and Reforms (CPDR) emphasised the inclusion...