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Posts published in “Day: June 8, 2012

The UN’s responsibilities: edit in The Nation, June 8

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai told the National Assembly’s Kashmir Committee, which she met on Wednesday, that the UN will end the human rights abuses that are taking place there. This is an important acceptance that the illegal Indian occupation there has led to massive violations of human rights by Indian occupation forces, but it also skims over the fact that the Kashmir issue, while it has an important human rights dimension,…

Mirpuris demand basic facilities

MIRPUR: Visiting expatriates and local residents of Mirpur have demanded the government to provide them basic civic amenities. The locals have expressed concern over the lack of streetlights and hygienic drinking water facility in the city, which is arguably the most developed city of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and have demanded that the government improve the dilapidated sewerage system. Locals said that even though lampposts were installed on the central Allama Iqbal Road three…