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Posts published in July 2012

Transfer of AJK former AG: Court seeking comments on petition pleading annulment

MUZAFFARABAD, July 15: AJK High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal has directed the Auditor General of Pakistan, Federal Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and three others to file their comments on a petition seeking annulment of the transfer of AJK’s former Accountant General (AG) Tahir Mahmud as well as probe into the alleged misappropriation of funds in the AJK Council. The petition has been filed by Raja Akhtar Hussain and Raja Mumtaz Khan, president and…

Mian Manzoor Wattoo fanning sectarian tension in GB: Dr Israr

By Mumtaz Alvi in the News, July 16 Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Deputy Information Secretary Dr Israr Shah has alleged that federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, was destroying peace in the region, earlier called the Northern Areas. Talking to mediapersons here at PTI Central Secretariat on Saturday, Dr Shah, once a diehard activist of PPP, said that under a well-conceived conspiracy, Wattoo was fanning sectarian tension in Gilgit-Baltistan, which…

Concern voiced against hydropower projects in AJK

By  Tariq Naqash in Dawn, July 16 MUZAFFARABAD, July 15: The federal government and its Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) should sincerely and seriously address the concerns of the Kashmiris in the wake of construction of two mega hydropower projects in the area, before launching any further undertaking. This was demanded by the participants of a seminar held here under the aegis of a local NGO, Muzaffarabad City Development Foundation (MCDF). The seminar, which…

Transfer of AJK former AG: Court seeking comments on petition pleading annulment

MUZAFFARABAD, July 15: AJK High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal has directed the Auditor General of Pakistan, Federal Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and three others to file their comments on a petition seeking annulment of the transfer of AJK’s former Accountant General (AG) Tahir Mahmud as well as probe into the alleged misappropriation of funds in the AJK Council. The petition has been filed by Raja Akhtar Hussain and Raja Mumtaz Khan, president and…

Mian Manzoor Wattoo fanning sectarian tension in GB: Dr Israr

By Mumtaz Alvi in the News, July 16 Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Deputy Information Secretary Dr Israr Shah has alleged that federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, was destroying peace in the region, earlier called the Northern Areas. Talking to mediapersons here at PTI Central Secretariat on Saturday, Dr Shah, once a diehard activist of PPP, said that under a well-conceived conspiracy, Wattoo was fanning sectarian tension in Gilgit-Baltistan, which…

Wattoo fanning sectarian tension in GB: Dr Shah

By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, July 15 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Deputy Information Secretary Dr Israr Shah has alleged that federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, was destroying peace in the region, earlier called the Northern Areas. Talking to mediapersons here at the PTI Central Secretariat on Saturday, Dr Shah, once a diehard activist of PPP, said that under a well-conceived conspiracy, Wattoo was fanning sectarian tension in Gilgit-Baltistan,…

Wattoo fanning sectarian tension in GB: Dr Shah

By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, July 15 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Deputy Information Secretary Dr Israr Shah has alleged that federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, was destroying peace in the region, earlier called the Northern Areas. Talking to mediapersons here at the PTI Central Secretariat on Saturday, Dr Shah, once a diehard activist of PPP, said that under a well-conceived conspiracy, Wattoo was fanning sectarian tension in Gilgit-Baltistan,…

Kashmir Martyrs’ Day : edit in the Nation, July 14

The commemoration of Martyr’s Day on Friday, the 81st anniversary of the firing by the state police on an unarmed crowd in Srinagar, killing 21 people should teach a number of lessons to the Indian government and its puppet regime in Srinagar. First, the lesson to be absorbed is that the indigenous struggle of the Kashmiri Muslims goes back no less than 81 years and thus predates Pakistan’s existence. Second, the history of the Kashmiri…

Good omen: edit in the Nation, July 14

It is a crumb of comfort that the International Court of Arbitration has issued a stay order halting the construction of Kishanganga Dam on River Neelum. The court’s decision is in line with the Indus Waters Treaty that categorically prohibits India from blocking or diverting three of the Indus’ western rivers. However, the situation overall is still quite appalling, given several other dams India is building and from which water is already being cut off.…

Kashgar fast becoming international trading hub

Islamabad: Kashgar is developing fast and becoming hub of trade activity, said Ashraf Azeem, President Institute of Regional Studies. He said this while speaking at the discussion held here on his visit to Kashgar. He was in Kashgar to take part in the eighth Kashgar Central and South Asia Commodity Fair. The trade fair started in 2005 and has become an annual feature in promoting regional trade. This year the trade fair has attracted more…

Fazlur Rehman alleges Israeli involvement in Kashmir

By Zahid Gishkori in The Express Tribune, July 14th ISLAMABAD: The head of a parliamentary committee on Kashmir, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has accused Israel of inducting armed personnel in Indian Kashmir in the guise of tourists. The remarks came on “Kashmir Martyrs Day”, a day observed by Kashmiris to commemorate the sacrifices made in 1931 by the 21 Kashmiris who lost their lives in a revolt against the Dogra Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir. “Recently,…